Choices in Pregnancy and Childbirth : A Guide to Options for Health Professionals, Midwives, Holistic Practitioners, and Parents
- Author(s)
- John Wilks
- Format
- Paperback | 368 pages
- Dimensions
- 152 x 228 x 22mm | 540g
- Publication date
- 21 Aug 2015
- Publisher
- JESSICA KINGSLEY PUBLISHERS
- Imprint
- Singing Dragon
- Publication City/Country
- London, United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Illustrations note
- 30 b&w
- ISBN10
- 1848192193
- ISBN13
- 9781848192195
- Bestsellers rank
- 571,833
This is a comprehensive and empowering guide to facilitating a positive pregnancy and birth experience, and ensuring lasting emotional and physical health for mother and baby.
Countering increasingly medicalized attitudes towards pregnancy and birth among many healthcare providers, this research-based book discusses the benefits of a more natural approach. It reveals the often undisclosed effects on a child's long-term development of accepted medical practices, such as induction, C-section, surgical interventions and pain-relief medications. It offers advice on how these practices can be avoided, for example with techniques to encourage optimal fetal positioning, by optimising the birth environment, and through drug-free pain management methods. Ultimately, it enables practitioners to support parents in informed, confident decision-making by giving a balanced account of the complex array of options available throughout pregnancy and birth.
With invaluable contributions from midwives, doulas, mothers, and doctors, and tried-and-tested advice on sleep, exercise, diet and therapies, this will a very useful reference for anyone working with women and babies. The information will also be relevant to prospective and new parents.