Deliver! A Concise Guide to Helping the Woman You Love Through Labor

If you'll be supporting a woman as she gives birth, you'll need to read "Deliver! A Concise Guide To Helping The Woman You Love Through Labor." It's a compact, straight-talking field guide that takes you through the various stages of labor and birth, clearly explaining what a woman is experiencing and - most importantly - suggesting the many ways in which her birth partner can help. The book is written primarily for dads-to-be. They can help make a birth a wonderfully positive event for the mother of their child; an experience that will build on, and strengthen, the love and trust that's at the heart their relationship.But Deliver! will help sisters, girlfriends, guy friends, and even granddads and grandmoms who are attending a birth and all of whom can make for wonderful birth partners. Moms-to-be, if you'd like your partner to read just one book before your baby is born, this is the one to give him -- and the one he'll actually finish!

Julie Dubrouillet is a certified labor support doula, childbirth and lactation educator, and prenatal yoga instructor, as well as a trainer of childbirth educators. She is also the prenatal Health Education Specialist at the Palo Alto Medical Foundation in Palo Alto, California. A mother of two children, she's taught thousands of couples how best to approach childbirth and directly supported hundreds of couples through the births of their children.

Simon Firth is a writer specializing in stories about parenting and technology. He's written for Salon, Wondertime, Food and Wine, and the Christian Science Monitor among other publications and has been a technology analyst for the London Evening Standard. He attended the births of his two children, where he lovingly supported his wife thanks to the tips he learned in a class taught by Julie! Julie was also the doula attending his children's births.