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.

The Unassisted Baby

Author: Anita Evensen
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781735093567
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256

Book Description
MUST-HAVE BOOK FOR ALL WOMEN PLANNING A HOMEBIRTH! Do you dream of a healing, peaceful birth at home, but maybe you need a comprehensive guide and resources to make it happen? Are you planning a homebirth and want to make sure you know what to do every step of the way? Thousands of women have gone before you. Almost all women can have a natural pregnancy and childbirth. Information is power. Knowing your body and what to expect during pregnancy and childbirth is the key to success. This book is a foundational resource for anyone planning an unassisted birth. The Unassisted Baby will help you: - Learn about the dangers of interventions - Do your own prenatal care - Compile the necessary birth supplies - Recognize the signs of labor - Understand the process of labor and childbirth - Prevent complications - Perform a newborn evaluation - Take care of yourself postpartum - Understand what to do in an emergency - Get a birth certificate for your baby - Teach your partner what to do during labor and birth Women have given birth without medical assistance throughout all of history. Even if you aren't planning a homebirth, this book will give you the information you need to give birth safely.

Emergency Childbirth

Author: Gregory J. White
Publisher: Care Publications
ISBN: 9780934426015
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 76

Book Description
This is the 15th printing of this popular book which contains Step by step instructions on how to deliver a baby in language that can be understood by anyone with an 8th grade education.

Home Birth

Author: Mary L. Nolan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136865136
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 289

Book Description
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 politics of difficult choices focuses on the experiences of women whose choices were opposed by health professionals during their pregnancy journey. It confronts why and how women are being denied home birth and raises some challenging issues for current midwifery practice. Using ten women’s narratives, this important volume explores why women might want to give birth at home and considers ideas of risk and informed choice in pregnancy and birth. The book includes chapters on communication and language; fear and stress; advocacy and autonomy; fathers’ experience of contested place of birth and free birthing. Pointers to best practice are presented whilst the text incorporates women’s narratives throughout, making this a practical and relevant read for midwifery students as well as practising midwives and childbirth educators, all of whom have a duty to make home birth a real option for women.

Birth Your Way

Author: Sheila Kitzinger
Publisher: Fresh Heart Publishing
ISBN: 1906619182
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 345

Book Description
Describes different approaches to childbirth and their advantages and disadvantages, including midwife delivery and birth centers.

Home Birth on Your Own Terms

Author: Heather Baker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781090520166
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 322

Book Description
Are you looking for a freebirth plan? With the ever climbing epidemic of birth violence inflicted by medical professionals and the constraints birth attendants now have upon them, it's no surprise that parents are taking a stand and birthing the way they so desire. This manual contains all the information you need to give birth at home by yourselves. Get your body and mind prepared for a natural geared pregnancy and birth, where you make all the rules and decisions... This book covers: * how to do your own prenatal care * common discomforts in pregnancy * herbal and homeopathy uses * supplies you need for your birth * labor stages and how to manage them * birth affirmations * avoiding issues and complications * what to do for emergencies * postpartum care for mom and baby * how to register you baby with the state * unassisted birth stories This book is packed with photographs!! A MUST HAVE, especially in places that have little to no access to quality medical care/hospitals near the birthing mother. Reviews: "A valuable resource to prepare for your freebirth" "This book shows you how to freebirth. Giving you the information you need to control your birth and have peace with that decision." "This is the book every pregnant woman, whether she decides to birth unassisted or not, should have in her library. It is extremely informative, yet inspiring and empowering." ~Julia, Labor Assistant "Home Birth On Your Own Terms is a great first stop on your journey to having an unassisted birth. If only every birthing person could know this option, and assess for themselves if this is a safe, viable option for them. Home Birth On Your Own Terms provides confidence through first-hand accounts of births AND the appropriate precautions for people to make the best choices for their birth. For anyone considering their birth options, this is an eye opener to see beyond the systemically prescribed birthing process. This book gives another perspective on what is absolutely possible, empowering, safe and healthy births." ~ Vera Kevic, Doula "A wealth of information in one place."

Brave New Birth

Author: Andrea Olson
Publisher: Tiny World Company
ISBN: 9781736719916
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 237

Book Description
Unassisted birth. Freebirth. Self-directed birth. An undisturbed birth sounds great in theory, but how is it done?Whether you want practical guidance for an unassisted birth or simply want to deepen your understanding of natural birth in general, this book is the how-to manual you've been waiting for.Introducing the idea of a Brave New Birth - any birth where the mother and baby are free to birth by instinct and are given the privacy and safety necessary for the body and baby to birth themselves, without interference, intervention, or being watched/measured/observed.Here's a short list of what we'll cover inside this book: ?Learn 9 core ideas underlying unassisted birth. ?Decide whether freebirth is for you. ?Plan and prepare during an autonomous pregnancy. ?Explore basic biological truths and decode sensations. ?Understand the natural flow of labor, variations of normal, and red flags to look out for.The information found in Brave New Birth can be applied to any natural birth - at home, in the hospital, or during an emergency - with or without a caregiver.MULTIMEDIA EDITION: Includes access to our private doula-run support group, private how-to video library, printables library, and the forthcoming audiobook version, so you can learn on the go.

Unassisted Childbirth

Author: Laura Kaplan Shanley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313397163
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 185

Book Description
This book reveals how giving birth is an inherently safe, relatively painless process that is best performed without the assistance of doctors or midwives, and how confidence and a positive attitude reduces fear—and therefore the pain—of labor. According to Laura Kaplan Shanley, a renowned leader in the natural-birth movement, human birth is inherently safe and relatively painless—provided we refrain from physical or psychological interference. The problems often associated with birth can be traced to three main factors: poverty, unnecessary medical intervention, and fear. When these causes are eliminated, most women can give birth either alone or with the help of a partner, friends, or family. This second edition of Unassisted Childbirth leads with a history of childbirth and then describes how most deliveries occur today, detailing why these processes don't serve mothers or babies. The information in this unique book gives women yet another legitimate choice in childbirth that doesn't rely on doctors and technology, and allows parents, birth professionals, and general readers to reexamine their most basic ideas about birth and learn to think in new ways.

Homebirth in the Hospital

Author: Stacey Marie Kerr
Publisher: Sentient Publications
ISBN: 1591810779
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
Written by a physician, this book embraces the power and possibility of integrative childbirth, in which the compassionate tradition of midwives is combined with the technical expertise of western medicine. --from publisher description.

Supporting Women to Give Birth at Home

Author: Mary Steen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136595821
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 284

Book Description
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 ability to give birth at home and to promote this birth option, providing evidence-based information about benefits and risks. This practical guide will help midwives to have the necessary skills, resources and confidence to support homebirth. The book includes: the present birth choices a woman has the implications homebirth has upon midwifery practice how midwives can prepare and support women and their families the midwife’s role and responsibilities national and local policies, guidelines and available resources pain management options With a range of recent home birth case studies brought together in the final chapter, this accessible text provides a valuable insight into those considering homebirth. Supporting Women to Give Birth at Home will be of interest to students studying issues around normal birth and will be an important resource for clinically based midwives, in particular community based midwives, home birth midwifery teams, independent midwives, and all who are interested in homebirth as a genuine choice.