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Home Birth: The Politics of Difficult Choices , 8th Nov 2010
Mary L Nolan
ISBN 0415557550
Review
Home Birth: the politics of difficult choices focuses on the experiences of women whose choices were opposed by health professionals during their pregnancy journey. It confronts why and how women are being denied home birth and raises some challenging issues for current midwifery practice. Using ten women’s narratives, this important volume explores why women might want to give birth at home and considers ideas of risk and informed choice in pregnancy and birth. The book includes chapters on communication and language; fear and stress; advocacy and autonomy; fathers’ experience of contested place of birth and free birthing.
Pointers to best practice are presented whilst the text incorporates women’s narratives throughout, making this a practical and relevant read for midwifery students as well as practising midwives and childbirth educators, all of whom have a duty to make home birth a real option for women.
Why do women choose to give birth at home, even in situations defined as medically risky? Are they ignorant? Irresponsible? Risking their babies' lives for their own good experience? Mary L. Nolan explores this uncharted territory with respect and intelligence, creating a fascinating and invaluable resource for carers involved with home birth and/or women with "high risk" pregnancies. Women and families choosing home birth will especially enjoy the voices of strong-minded women who are making their own choices.’
Dr Sarah J. Buckley, author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering,
www.sarahjbuckley.com
Supporting Women to Give Birth at Home: A Practical Guide for Midwives, 15TH June 2011
Mary Steen
ISBN-10: 0415560306
Review
Supporting Women to Give Birth at Home describes and discusses the main challenges and issues that midwives encounter when preparing for and attending a home birth. To ensure that a home birth is a real option for women, midwives need to be able to believe in a woman’s ability to give birth at home and to promote this birth option, providing evidence-based information about benefits and risks. This practical guide will help midwives to have this confidence. It is organised into three parts:
Part one introduces the history of birth and the present birth choices a woman has.
Part two discusses preparation for a homebirth.
Part three covers attending a homebirth.
Case studies exploring recent home birth experiences will help illustrate this accessible text. It will be of interest to students studying issues around normal birth and will be a valuable resource for clinically based midwives, in particular community based midwives, home birth midwifery teams and independent midwives.
Pushing for Midwives: Homebirth Mothers and the Reproductive Rights Movement, 25th Nov 2010
Christina Craven
ISBN-10: 1439902208
Review
With the increasing demand for midwives among U.S. women, reproductive rights activists are lobbying to loosen restrictions that deny legal access to homebirth options. In Pushing for Midwives, Christa Craven presents a nuanced history of women's reproductive rights activism in the U.S. She also provides an examination of contemporary organizing strategies for reproductive rights in an era increasingly driven by "consumer rights." By framing the midwifery struggle through a political economic perspective on reproductive rights, Pushing for Midwives offers an in-depth look at the strategies, successes, and challenges facing midwifery activists in Virginia. Craven examines how decades-old race and class prejudices against midwives continue to impact opposition too as well as divisions within women's contemporary legislative efforts for midwives. She argues that this recognition is vital for both scholars and activists if they hope to maintain their commitment to expanding reproductive rights for all women.
Books that I have previously read are:
Homebirth, Nicky Wesson
Childbirth without fear, Dr Dick grantly Reed.
Hypnobirthing, Marie Mongan
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