This book explores the history of birth practices and presents the benefits and problems of childbirth techniques during the past 100 years. Presentation of the physiology of birth, birth as a sexual event, importance of the father being face to face during birth. This is a great value on a classic birth book. The current copies of Birth and the Dialogue of Love were bound in 1981 and have a fragile binding. Couples explain why they chose to birth this way, how they prepared for birth, and shared their joyous birth experiences.
Families share their previous birth failures, frustrations and fears.
Now she presents more reasons why husband and wife should give birth at home, privately, just the way the conception of the baby had been. The presence of third parties spoils it for them. The Real Consummation of Married Love describes how birth is a sexual event and how it can be pleasurable when husband and wife birth alone rather than under medical circumstances. She presents research that reveals that couples who give birth intimately return to a satisfying sex life sooner and with more frequency. They often experience less fatigue and a lower incidence of postpartum depression.