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Birth With Confidence: Savvy choices for normal birth
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Australia’s birth intervention rates are well above those recommended by the World Health Organisation and climbing. InBirth with Confidence, one of Australia’s foremost thinkers on the subject of childbirth explains why normal birth is almost impossible in our current birth culture—and what women can do to beat the odds.
In this accessible, straightforward book, Rhea Dempsey draws on over thirty years’ experience to show how a woman’s choice of caregivers, support team and birthplace, as well as her life experience and personal attitudes to pain, will affect her birth outcomes. Featuring real-life stories, the latest Australian statistics and opportunities for guided personal reflection,Birth with Confidenceprovides the knowledge and practical advice that women need for the best chance of normal birth in today’s birth culture.
Birth With Confidencewill:
Outline the benefits for mothers and babies of a normal physiological birth
Help you understand how our current birth culture can undermine your attempts at normal birth and the steps you can take to make sure it doesn’t
Explain how the various ‘circles of influence’ around you — from your friends and family to the wider culture — can support or sabotage your birthing potential
Help you identify your own attitude to pain — your ‘pain type’ — and what it will mean for your birth
Provide practical and emotional steps you can take to raise your pain tolerance level
Give you a framework for deciding on the best caregivers and support people to help you work through any ‘crisis of confidence’ during labour
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About the author:
Rhea Dempsey is a childbirth educator, speaker, counsellor and birth attendant (doula) with experience at over one thousand births. With adult daughters and grandchildren of her own, Rhea’s understanding of birth has been gained over almost four decades of working with pregnant women, their partners, support people, midwives and medical practitioners, in home and hospital settings.
Rhea is a highly sought after speaker and presenter at conferences, seminars and workshops on birth and counselling issues. She regularly addresses pregnant women, their partners and support people; complementary health practitioners; midwives and medical practitioners. She is recognized as an insightful commentator on the difficulties faced by women who have a yearning for normal physiological birth in navigating the present birth culture. She is also respected as one of Australia’s foremost thinkers on the topic of working with pain in childbirth and its connection to normal physiological birth.
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