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Beyond the Birth Plan: Getting real about pain and power

Beyond the Birth Plan: Getting real about pain and power

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In Beyond the Birth Plan, Rhea offers her deep knowledge and insights into preparation for the complex emotional path to birth and motherhood. Through meticulous research, Rhea’s postnatal counselling experience, and interviews with experts and women all around Australia, she explores the psychological and emotional experiences of birthing and motherhood alongside the physical experience.

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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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