Deliver Me from Pain Gabrielle Hobday Every once in a while

Every once in a while a better book comes along

For Aristotle

in a hospice

Over decades of seminars and training work

- new content on the role of fathers

Deliver Me from Pain Gabrielle Hobday Every once in a whileDespite today's historically low maternal and infant mortality rates in the United States, labor continues to evoke fear among American women. Rather than embrace the natural childbirth methods promoted in the 1970s, most women welcome epidural anesthesia and even Cesarean deliveries. In Deliver Me from Pain, Jacqueline H. Wolf asks how a treatment such as obstetric anesthesia, even when it historically posed serious risk to mothers and newborns,