This is a collection of articles contibuted by various women on the aspect of birth, but focussing mainly on the mother and her feelings and problems, not so much on the baby. It gives self- experienced advice on nutrition, herbs, aromatherapy, homeopathy, shiatsu, alexander technique, homebirth, breastfeeding, vaginal birth after caesarean, and breathing, movement and optimal fetal positioning. The second part of the book is a collectionof birth stories and how they wanted it to happen, their plans and how it actually went.