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Whose advice will you take in the delivery room? Will it be Grantly Dick-Read? Robert Bradley? Fernand Lamaze? Or will you march to the beat of your own drum with hypnosis or birth art? Read articles on the most popular childbirth techniques, and then you be the judge?

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Birthing From Within
Experiencing Childbirth in Your Own Way
What do paintings, sculptures, warriors, belly casts, rites of passage and paper tigers all have in common? Childbirth.

The Teachings of Grantly Dick-Read
Childbirth Without Fear
"It didn't hurt. It wasn't meant to, was it, doctor?

Benefiting from the Bradley Method
'Intervention' Is Not a Naughty Word
After 12 weeks of training in the Bradley Method, my wife and I took our birth plan to our OB/GYN, Dr. Sidney Prescott of the Women's Clinic in Portland, Ore.

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Pregnancy Week By Week
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