What exactly is a medical birth? Having your baby in hospital? Having an obstetrician as your birth provider? Having staff obstetrical nurses or nurse midwives attend you? Having medical assessments, monitoring or procedures done during your pregnancy and birth of...
Fathers preparing for birth We want to offer some contextual understanding of modern father-to-bes/other: Men are hard wired to understand birth because they were born through a woman’s body. They need skills, when to start, what to do and how to use the skills...
Political debates control the conversation setting up opposition as to what is the best birth: natural versus medical, Doctor versus Midwife and home versus hospital. Each aspect is then broken down into more minor yet persistent debates such as constant foetal...
Most people assume that choosing to have a home birth is all you need to do. Birth Plans are very much like a wish list or a menu choice. After all, we are living in a world where we often feel we know our rights to choose, we want it now, or others can be put to...
Unfortunately Birth Centres are not that common. If you live near a free standing Birth Centre then you are very lucky. You’re more likely to have access to a hospital with a Birth Centre attached. You’ve may have already discovered that Birth Centres have stringent...
There are two ways you can look at this subject … failure or success. There are two ways you can deal with this if it happens to you … like a failure or with success. Transferring from a home birth is never anticipated or else people won’t plan home births....
