Normal Birth Products

By Mary L. Nolan

As research in neuroscience increasingly points to the unparalleled influence of the first 1000 days of life from conception to two years of age in determining the baby’s life trajectory, the need for high quality early parenting education delivered by knowledgeable and dedicated professionals…

Paperback – 2020-03-18 
Routledge

Edited by Hannah Dahlen, Bashi Kumar-Hazard, Virginia Schmied

This book investigates why women choose ‘birth outside the system’ and makes connections between women’s right to choose where they birth and violations of human rights within maternity care systems. Choosing to birth at home can force women out of mainstream maternity care, despite research…

Hardback – 2020-02-06 
Routledge
Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery

Edited by Maria Paz Miranda, Sian Marie Barnard

Drawing on years of midwifery experience of waterbirth, this collection of stories, based on real-life events, illuminates a rewarding way of birth and emphasises the theoretical knowledge, skills, understanding, and resilience needed to practice well. Waterbirth Stories includes chapters on the…

Paperback – 2019-09-24
Routledge

By Susan Crowther

To be at the birth of a baby is special, yet there is an increasing secularisation and reliance on technology in contemporary maternity care, particularly in the western context. Through exploration of experiences at birth this book explores joy at birth, which is often ignored and overlooked…

Hardback – 2019-09-05
Routledge
Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery

Edited by Nadine Edwards, Rosemary Mander, Jo Murphy-Lawless

Arguing that contemporary maternity services provide a toxic environment both in which to practise and to give birth, this book looks at how we can change this. Its aim is promoting the best possible experiences of childbearing, and confident, strengthening and loving contexts for new parenthood.…

Paperback – 2018-01-24
Routledge

Edited by Susan Crowther, Jenny Hall

Highlighting aspects of birth often taken for granted, ignored or left silenced, this book questions the art and meaning of childbirth. Addressing spirituality in and around the start of life from a variety of thought-provoking perspectives, it examines the apparent paradox of impersonal…

Paperback – 2017-09-11
Routledge

By Nicky Leap, Billie Hunter

Fear of childbirth, the increasing use of epidurals and soaring caesarean section rates are the focus of much apprehension, debate, and controversy in contemporary maternity care. Across the world, support in labour has been shown to reduce obstetric interventions and improve outcomes for…

Paperback – 2016-06-13
Routledge

By Teri Gavin-Jones, Sandra Handford

Maternity services and choices for labour and birth are fast evolving. Hypnobirth involves preparation for childbirth using tried and tested hypnotherapy techniques in harmony with midwifery best practices and increasing numbers of women are turning to the technique. Written by two experienced…

Paperback – 2016-05-24
Routledge

Edited by Mary Steen

Supporting Women to Give Birth at Home describes and discusses the main challenges and issues that midwives and maternity services 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…

Paperback – 2011-11-17
Routledge

Edited by Denis Walsh

Evidence-based care is a well established principle in contemporary healthcare and a worldwide health care movement. However, despite the emphasis on promoting evidence-based or effective care without the unnecessary use of technologies and drugs, intervention rates in childbirth continue to rise…

Paperback – 2011-11-02
Routledge

By Mary L. Nolan

The rhetoric of choice is much used in UK health policy and home birth is one of the three options that women are entitled to choose between when deciding where to have their baby. However, many women making this choice run into considerable opposition from the maternity service. Home Birth: the…

Paperback – 2010-11-08
Routledge

By Jacqueline Vincent-Priya

Most women giving birth in rural communities throughout the Third World cannot enjoy the ''benefits'' of modern medical assistance. They are usually too expensive and too far away. This book is the result of journeys and conversations between the author, traditional midwives and mothers which took…

Hardback – 2009-10-01
Routledge
Health and Population Set