Birth Crisis Author:S. Kitzinger When a woman is denied all choice - feels as if she has been swallowed up by a vast machine and spat out at the other end with a baby - how can she come to terms with that ordeal? — One new mother in twenty is diagnosed with traumatic stress after childbirth. In Birth Crisis Sheila Kitzinger explores the disempowerment and anxiety experienced by ... more »these women. Topics include:
· increasing intervention in pregnancy
· the shift in emphasis from relationships to technology in childbirth
· how family, friends and professional caregivers can reach out to traumatized mothers
· how women can work through stress to understand themselves more deeply and grow in emotional maturity
· how care and the medical system needs to be changed
Birth Crisis draws on mothers' voices and real-life experiences to explore the suffering after childbirth which has, until now, been brushed under the carpet. It is a fascinating and useful resource for student and practicing midwives, all health professionals, and women and their families who want to learn how to overcome a traumatic birth.« less