Why Human Rights in Childbirth Matter

Author: Rebecca Schiller
Publisher: Pinter & Martin Why it Matters
ISBN: 9781780665801
Category : Childbirth
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Why Human Rights in Childbirth explores the rights of women in pregnancy and birth, and offers information and support for mothers, caregivers and campaigners working to improve birth practices and birth experiences. Rebecca Schiller is co-chair of the human rights in childbirth charity Birthrights and a media spokesperson on reproductive rights and birth-related issues. She is a doula, a director of Doula UK and was nominated for Doula of the Year 2014. She is a freelance writer on related topics and her first short book, All That Matters: Women's Rights in Childbirth is published by the Guardian. She has two children. Before entering the childbirth world she completed a master's degree in War Studies with a focus on human rights issues. She has worked in the charity and NGO sector, most recently at Human Rights Watch. She has two children.

Birthing Justice

Author: Alicia D. Bonaparte
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000922804
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Book Description
The second edition of this pathbreaking, widely taught book offers six new chapters, on breastfeeding and Black infant health; Black birthing during COVID; Black doulas rethinking birthing practices; the recent buildup of a US national movement; childbirth in Zanzibar; and expanding the global movement for sexual and reproductive well-being. Other chapters are updated throughout. Birthing Justice puts Black women’s voices at the center of the debate on what should be done to fix the broken maternal care system. It foregrounds Black women’s agency in the birth justice movement. First published in 2016, Birthing Justice is a seminal text for those interested in maternal healthcare, reproductive justice, health equity, and intersectional racial justice, especially in courses on gender studies, Black studies, public health, and training programs for midwives and OB/GYNs.

Birth Settings in America

Author: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309669820
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 369

Book Description
The delivery of high quality and equitable care for both mothers and newborns is complex and requires efforts across many sectors. The United States spends more on childbirth than any other country in the world, yet outcomes are worse than other high-resource countries, and even worse for Black and Native American women. There are a variety of factors that influence childbirth, including social determinants such as income, educational levels, access to care, financing, transportation, structural racism and geographic variability in birth settings. It is important to reevaluate the United States' approach to maternal and newborn care through the lens of these factors across multiple disciplines. Birth Settings in America: Outcomes, Quality, Access, and Choice reviews and evaluates maternal and newborn care in the United States, the epidemiology of social and clinical risks in pregnancy and childbirth, birth settings research, and access to and choice of birth settings.

Birth Matters

Author: Ina May Gaskin
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
ISBN: 1609801407
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 273

Book Description
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. Upbeat and informative, Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.

Deliver This!

Author: Marisa Cohen
Publisher: Seal Press (CA)
ISBN: 9781580051538
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
Drawn from interviews with more than one hundred women, the author explores the debate between traditional birthing options and alternative choices, providing valuable information on today's childbirth options and creative solutions that bridge seemingly conflicting goals. Original.

Human Rights in Childbirth in Slovenia

Author: Zalka Drglin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789619588222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
The publication Human rights in childbirth gives an overview of various rights a woman giving birth has in a maternity hospital./.../Human rights in childbirth may be summarised in one concise right:As the woman giving birth, you have the right to a safe, suitable, proper, effective, timely, respectful, inclusive, personal and culturally sensitive maternity care of the highest possible standard and to the best available level of your own and the baby's health and safety./.../1. Health professionals treat you with a positive attitude.The maternity hospital provides you with respectful maternity care. This means that health professionals have a positive, good quality attitude towards you: they are caring, respectful and compassionate; they are genuinely kind to you.1.1 The right to Maintaining and protecting physical and mental integrityThis means, for example, that ... their words, behaviour and actions make you feel you are being treated in a humane manner and in such a way that preserves your mental and physical "wholeness" as a unique human being. Your well-being comes first. No one is harming you, either physically or mentally.... you, as an individual in this special situation in life and in these unique circumstances, are at the centre of care.... you receive birth assistance, including physical and mental support, that is suitable for you.... verbal and non-verbal communication with you is kind, friendly and appropriate.This means more precisely, that ... no procedures on your body are carried out without your consent including e.g. artificial rupture of membranes, carrying out an episiotomy or fundal pressure.... health professionals separate your newborn from you only if you agree with this.... health professionals do not impose their views regarding pain relieving methods.

Birthing Outside the System

Author: Hannah Dahlen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0429953143
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 621

Book Description
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 supporting the safety of this option for low-risk women attended by midwives. When homebirth is not supported as a birthplace option, women will defy mainstream medical advice, and if a midwife is not available, choose either an unregulated careprovider or birth without assistance. This book examines the circumstances and drivers behind why women nevertheless choose homebirth by bringing legal and ethical perspectives together with the latest research on high-risk homebirth (breech and twin births), freebirth, birth with unregulated careproviders and the oppression of midwives who support unorthodox choices. Stories from women who have pursued alternatives in Australia, Europe, Russia, the UK, the US, Canada, the Middle East and India are woven through the research. Insight and practical strategies are shared by doctors, midwives, lawyers, anthropologists, sociologists and psychologists on how to manage the tension between professional obligations and women’s right to bodily autonomy. This book, the first of its kind, is an important contribution to considerations of place of birth and human rights in childbirth.

Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your body. Your baby. Your choices.

Author: Milli Hill
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008313113
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 348

Book Description
As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent’s 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parents Birth is a feminist issue. It’s the feminist issue nobody’s talking about.

WHO Recommendations for Augmentation of Labour

Author: World Health Organization
Publisher: World Health Organization
ISBN: 9241507365
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 62

Book Description
Optimizing outcomes for women in labor at the global level requires evidence-based guidance of health workers to improve care through appropriate patient selection and use of effective interventions. In this regard, the World Health Organization (WHO) published recommendations for induction of labor in 2011. The goal of the present guideline is to consolidate the guidance for effective interventions that are needed to reduce the global burden of prolonged labor and its consequences. The primary target audience includes health professionals responsible for developing national and local health protocols and policies, as well as obstetricians, midwives, nurses, general medical practitioners, managers of maternal and child health programs, and public health policy-makers in all settings.

Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (Volume 2)

Author: Robert Black
Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464803684
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 419

Book Description
The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. Volume 3 focuses on developments since the publication of DCP2 and will also include the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume. The DCP3 evaluation of these conditions produced three key findings: 1. There is significant difficulty in measuring the burden of key conditions such as unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, nonsexually transmitted infections, infertility, and violence against women. 2. Investments in the continuum of care can have significant returns for improved and equitable access, health, poverty, and health systems. 3. There is a large difference in how RMNCH conditions affect different income groups; investments in RMNCH can lessen the disparity in terms of both health and financial risk.