

Sarah Buckley might be called a third-wave natural birth advocate. Her wise counsel on issues like breastfeeding and sleeping during post-partum helps extend the gentle birth experience into a gentle parenting relationship. Using current medical and epidemiological research plus women's experiences (including her own), she demonstrates that what she calls 'undisturbed birth' is almost always healthier and safer than hospital births. A doctor and a mother, she approaches the question of how a woman and baby might have the most fulfilling birth experience with respect for the wisdom of both medical science and the human body. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.īook Description Paperback. Sorting things out on every level, which includes a special talent for removing embedded hair ties from Barbie hair.

If you had a superpower, what would it be? Trust your body, trust your baby, follow your instinctsĪ commissioned report on the hormonal orchestration of labor If you had to boil your book’s message down to one sentence, what would it be? I was a precocious reader, I read Jane Eyre at age 10 and loved Wuthering Heights. When I was 10, I told my class teacher I wanted to be an author! What was the hardest thing about writing a book?Ĭombining it with looking after 4 children

How long did it take you to write this book?Īround ten years since I wrote the first material, and around 9 months to rewrite and put it all together. She has published numerous articles in Mothering magazine and Midwifery Today.

Today we chat about her own four beautiful homebirths, diving deep into the hormonal blueprint of labour and birth, what types of things can interrupt that hormonal flow, and how we can fill in these hormonal gaps.SARAH BUCKLEY, MD, is an internationally known authority on natural birthing and parenting choices. Coming from a long line of GP’s, she was influenced by her own experiences working in hospitals and by what she noticed with the birthing women there. Dr Buckley is well known for her groundbreaking report "Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing", the product of her ongoing interest and research on the hormones of labour and birth. She is also the author of the international best-selling book "Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering" - which is available for purchase on the PBA website. Buckley.ĭr Buckley is trained as a GP with qualifications in GP obstetrics and has been writing and lecturing to childbirth professionals and parents since 1997. On today’s show I have the privilege of interviewing Dr Sarah J.
