title: The ICEA Guide to Pregnancy & Birth
author: International Childbirth Education Assocation (ICEA)
description: This guide includes everything I want my patients to know. Making decisions depends on knowing what to ask the healthcare provider. This book informs parents on the options to consider and the questions to ask. An excellent resource that supports the Mother-Friendly model of care, highly recommended. <br /> --Tami Michele, DO; FACOOG; OB/GYN; CIMS Board Member, Coalition for Improving Maternity Services<br /><br />The ICEA Guide is a comprehensive and trustworthy source of information on pregnancy, birth, and early parenting. Expectant parents can count on a realistic, step-by-step approach to prepare them for a healthy or a complicated birth. ICEA understands that each woman and pregnancy is unique and trusts mothers and families to make their own best decisions based on knowing the benefits and risks of available options and their own personal values.<br /> --Nicette Jukelevics, MA, ICCE -author of Understanding the Dangers of Cesarean Birth: Making Informed Decisions and publisher of www.vbac.com<br /><br />Living up to its motto, "Freedom to Make Decisions Based on Knowledge of Alternatives" the ICEA Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth gives parents an understanding of terminology, explanations, and questions to consider when making all important decisions. As it moves from pregnancy to postpartum, tables and illustrations improve understanding of the information new parents need to ask questions and participate in their care. This guide is just as appropriate for partners as it is for mothers and truly improves informed consent and refusal.<br /> -- Barbara A. Hotelling, MSN, WHNP-BC, LCCE, CD(DONA)<br /><br />This book contains very useful tools for interviewing doctors , nurses , and hospitals when making decisions about where to give birth and whom to select as your care providers.<br /> --Celeste R. Phillips, RN, EdD
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  Prepared by:
  
  Richard L. Sullivan, PhD
  
  Director, Training Office
  
  Noel McIntosh, MD, ScD
  
  President
  
  U.S. Agency for International Development
  
  JHPIEGO Strategy Papers are designed to summarize JHPIEGO’s experience in
  reproductive health capacity building, with a focus on education and training.
  The papers are intended for use by program staff of JHPIEGO, USAID and its
  cooperating agencies and other organizations providing or receiving technical
  assistance in the area of reproductive health training.
  
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  those of USAID.
  
  JHPIEGO, an affiliate of the Johns Hopkins University, is a nonprofit
  organization dedi-cated to improving the hea