Birth Crisis

When a woman is denied all choice feels as if she has been swallowed up by avast machine and spat out at the other end with a baby how can she come toterms wi... » 

When a woman is denied all choice feels as if she has been swallowed up by avast machine and spat out at the other end with a baby how can she come toterms with that ordeal? One new mother in twenty is diagnosed with traumaticstress after childbirth. In Birth Crisis Sheila Kitzinger explores thedisempowerment and anxiety experienced by these women. Key topics discussedinclude increasing intervention in pregnancy the shift in emphasis fromrelationships to technology in childbirth how family friends and professionalcaregivers can reach out to traumatized mothers how women can work throughstress to understand themselves more deeply and grow in emotional maturity howcare and the medical system needs to be changed. Birth Crisis draws onmothers voices and reallife experiences to explore the suffering afterchildbirth which has until now been brushed under the carpet. It is afascinating and useful resource for student and practicing midwives all healthprofessionals and women and their families who want to learn how to overcome atraumatic birth. «