YOUR BIRTH RIGHTS
A Practical Guide to Better Care in Pregnancy and Birth
Pat Thomas
£10.00
'The moment you have a positive pregnancy test, Your Birth Rights should be your ante-natal "bible"'
Lynne McTaggert, What Doctors Don't Tell You
Your Birth Rights is the essential guide to making positive choices about pregnancy and childbirth. It encourages mothers to trust and act on their own instincts and experience, rather than acquiesce to the many unevaluated routines and procedures used in maternity care. Contents include:
• Your rights as a patient and as an individual
• The real benefits and proven risks of obstetric routines, drugs and technology
• How to arrange the birth of your baby to suit your individual needs
• How the system of ante-natal care supports women - and where it fails to provide
• How to be assertive with your practitioner and how to complain if things go wrong
Clear, challenging, unsentimental and under-awed by the 'miracle' of modern obstetrics, here is a book that women can use, from the moment they know they are pregnant, to become more than simply silent partners inone of the most important events in their lives.
Pat Thomas
is a renowned holistic health journalist with many years' experience. She is an experienced birth counsellor and the author of many highly acclaimed books on the sibject of pregnancy and birth. These include Every Woman's BirthRights, Every Birth is Different, Pregnancy - the Common Sense Approach, Living Organic and Cleaning Yourself to Death. Pat is also a prolific author of children's books.
She is a qualified psychotherapist, and active member of the Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services (AIMS) and editor of the AIMS Journal, and contributing editor to three health-related publications
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