Choice, control, and contemporary childbirth
Subtitle: understanding through women's stories
By: Julie Jomeen ; foreword by Tina Lavender
Contributors: Lavender, Tina
Publisher: Radcliffe
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9781846192371
Subjects: Pregnancy; Maternal Welfare; Psychology; Parturition; Psychological aspects
Description: Choice, Control and Contemporary Childbirth explores the narrative childbirth experiences of a group of women, outlining current policy and providing an overview of the relevant discourses to which women are exposed when making choices for maternity care. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Policy, theories and perspectives. The context of choice in pregnancy and childbirth ; Competing discourses in maternity care ; Discourses of motherhood; title: The women's stories. Making sense of stories told ; Now I'm pregnant : early pregnancy and choices for care ; 'The labour of pregnancy' : late pregnancy and impending labour ; So how was it? : giving birth and the early postnatal days ; 'No going back' : the reality of mothering ; Choice, control and contemporary childbirth.