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Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage

Weaving Ancient Wisdom with Modern Knowledge

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Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage

By: Rachel Reed
Narrated by: Rachel Reed
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It’s time for a childbirth revolution.

Childbirth has always been, and always will be, a significant rite of passage that transforms a woman into a mother. However, the modern approach to maternity care fails women, families, and care providers with outdated practices that center the needs of institutions rather than individuals.

In this audiobook, Rachel Reed demonstrates how childbirth can be reclaimed to center women and support birth physiology. The audiobook weaves history, science, and research with the experiences of women and care providers to create a holistic, evidence-based framework for understanding birth. It takes the listener on a journey through childbirth physiology and practices and focuses on what can be done to create change one mother at a time, one birth at a time.

Reclaiming childbirth as a rite of passage acknowledges that self-transformation occurs regardless of how the experience unfolds. It recognizes that mothers hold the power and expertise when it comes to birthing their babies. This audiobook encourages women to find their individual pathway through their rite of passage and requires care providers to consider how their actions and interactions influence women’s experiences.

Whether you are a parent, care provider or educator, this audiobook will transform how you think and feel about childbirth.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2021 Rachel Reed (P)2021 Rachel Reed
Medicine & Health Care Industry Relationships Sexual & Reproductive Health Sexual Health Physiology Child Birth
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I’m a mother of 4 and a midwife. I would go as far to say that this is a truly life changing book. Not all new information but a good framework to reflect upon and further intertwine this into both my personal and professional life. Thank you Rachel.

A must read

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so much wisdom for birth workers and women, a great reminder that often the best thing we can do for women is nothing

great for burnt out midwives

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Honest empowering words, I’m sure life changing for many. A must read/listen for all women, those preparing for birth, supporting birth, birthed previously and those that don’t ever see themselves birthing. Wisdom for the soul.

A must before the journey that is birth

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This is a wonderful book and so easy to digest the information surrounding birth.
Rachel Reed is exceptional at creating accessible information for anyone in the birth space or for curious people who want to know more about pregnancy and birth.
Use that credit :)

A must read for anyone in the birth space

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This is hands down the best book about childbirth I have read and I have read a few. There isn’t a word on it I would disagree with. It’s informative, transformative, inclusive, non-dogmatic, gentle and empowering. And hearing it read by Rachel Reed herself was a pleasure.

Best book on childbirth

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At first it made me mad and then it empowered me. Highly recommend this book for any first time mother.

Very informative

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This book is an excellent, excellent overview of the current maternity systems place, how we got there, and how to reclaim the right of passage to motherhood. (Or to a mother of 2, 3 or 4++++)

While Rachel intentionally plants seriously wild (yet relatable) seeds of doubt about the systems in place, she also recognises that women who need or choose intervention in their births also deserve to be treated with recognition for the transition that they are undertaking.

This is the most brilliant book and my favourite birth book ever. (And I've read a lot of birth books as a doula!)

Mandatory reading for all human beings, really. Go henceforth and enjoy all of Rachel's wisdom lapping over you. Her gorgeous, smooth voice doesn't at all detract from the delivery either. ;)

xx

Possibly the greatest birth book ever written

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seriously i dont even know what to say. just read it. literally, understand birth as its where we have come from and what is happening in our world previously and current.
well done rachel reed!

ahhhhh-mazing. every human on the planet must read

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loved it! so glad this came to audiobook to allow it to be read with a small babe in arms. this should be high on the reading list for anyone pregnant or trying to conceive or who works in the birth field. thanks to Rachel Reed for such a well written and eye-opening book

this is a perspective-shifting book

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Should be essential reading for all birth workers, and women who want more information about navigating the maternity services system.

Fabulous.

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