henci goer
Birth Options Expert,
Award Winning Author & Educator
henci goer
Birth Options Expert,
Award Winning Author & Educator
Take Charge of Your Birth
This groundbreaking series delivers up-to-date access to the best medical research and provides the most thorough synthesis on the market. It gives you practical strategies for developing your plan and taking charge of your birth.
“my passion and my life’s work have been providing pregnant women and birthing people what they need to make decisions about their care:
complete and accurate information, presented neutrally, on the pros and cons of all their options.”
About Henci
Henci Goer is an award-winning author, research analyst, and advocate for maternity care reform whose work has helped to shape the evidence-based birth movement for more than 40 years. Her commitment began with her own transformative second birth, which revealed how profoundly maternity care practices can affect parents’ physical and emotional well-being for good or ill.
Henci has dedicated her career to closing the gap between research and practice. She is the author of five books, including The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth and Optimal Care in Childbirth, and has written more than a hundred articles, guides, and analyses, many of which she shares through her free online Resource Library.
Her latest work, the Take Charge of Your Birth series of books, builds on decades of advocacy—equipping families and birth workers with the clarity, confidence, and evidence needed to make informed, collaborative decisions throughout pregnancy and birth.
Get Our Free eBook
This groundbreaking eBook provides pregnant women, birthing people, and their partners benchmarks for choosing a birth place and guidance on how to select care providers who support an evidence-based, physiologic approach. It identifies the gaps between typical labor management and optimal care and gives sage advice on how to find care they can trust.
“you can’t control the birth—or, really, anything in life. you can, though, take charge by knowing what you want and why…
then planning how best to achieve it.”
Know Your Rights
As a Birth Options expert, Henci helps you make informed decisions about your care and offers strategies for implementing your choices. It is also important to know your rights during childbirth and to be prepared for the possibility that medical system policies may not support your choices. In this article, Henci helps you do that too.
What People Are Saying
@takechargeofyourbirth
Follow Henci’s Instagram account for up-to-date news and research about birth issues! She’ll help you stay informed on what research affirms are best practices during labor and birth.