Doula and writer Adela Stockton has produced a small, easy to read book that will be of interest to a wide variety of women, in particular those looking to create the circumstances within themselves to enjoy a gentle birth. Adela’s premise is that the capacity to birth gently is within yourself. A chapter titled ‘Clearing the ...
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Neighbourhood Midwives: The future is coming!
In the current economic climate when families are struggling with everything from employment to food it is incredibly heart warming to know that a dedicated band of midwives are coming to the end of the beginning of their long standing battle to improve the UK maternity services. Campaigning for normal birth The Independent Midwifery Association (IMA) has ...
“Rediscovering Birth” By Sheila Kitzinger
Guest blogger Sarah Buchanan reviews 'Rediscovering Birth' by Sheila Kitzinger. Giving birth is a shared experience by women all over the world and no matter your experience, age or societal status it is a unifying act. However, the physical and spiritual methods of how the world’s different and diverse cultures give birth is fascinatingly complex ...
“The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth” by Henci Goer
Informed Choice If there is a conversation about 'rights' to be had around birth then the 'right' for mothers to make informed choices must be number one. Henci Goer describes herself as a Birth Activist, an American who has written extensive articles as well as books including the very popular and much quoted "Obstetric Myths Versus ...
“Stand and Deliver” by Emma Mahony
The rise in books for mothers It is gratifying to see a huge rise in the past 10 years of books about pregnancy, birth and parenting written by mothers for mothers. Particularly books about birth. This is a field every woman can become her own expert in because for every woman it is a unique and personal ...
“Choose the sex of your baby – the natural way” by Hazel Chesterman-Phillips
By a mother for a mother I am a firm fan of well written, informed books written by mothers for mothers. What might be termed 'lay authors'. In the 1960s Chesterman-Phillips did her own research about how to achieve a mixed family and successfully applied her theory first to her own family and then to other friends. ...
Diary of a free range pregnancy: Ultrasound Scans
Why scan? What do you expect people to say when you announce you are pregnant? Congratulations? How are you feeling? Or, to my surprise over 1/3 of people's first reaction was 'have you had the scan yet?'. As their opening gambit. For many people scans are as ubiquitous to pregnancy as sex is to conception. ...