Birth Pain: Explaining Sensations, Exploring Possibilities - Softcover

Schmid, Verena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 190661914X ISBN 13: 9781906619145

Publisher: Fresh Heart Publishing, 2010

Synopsis

A book to help midwives and other maternity caregivers reflect on the nature and purpose of birth pain and support pregnant and labouring women appropriately. The approach recommended is based on the author's 30+ years of experience as a midwife. This book discusses: the physiological and psychological functions of pain; cultural influences on the experience of labour pain; elective caesareans the supposedly simpler alternative to labour; advantages and drawbacks of using pharmacological pain relief; ways of transforming labour pain into an experience of power Many convincing arguments are presented to encourage you to support normal, physiological birth successfully and you are presented with practical ways of helping women prepare for and cope with the sensations and feelings of labour. In short, this is a manual to help you prevent many unnecessary caesareans.

About this title

About the Author

Verena Schmid is an independent midwife with over 30 years' experience. In 1985 she founded a midwifery centre and a school of midwifery, which she has directed since 1996. She is the founder of a professional magazine for midwives, author of four books and co-author of nine others (in Italian). In the year 2000 she received the International Astrid Limburg Award for her commitment to promoting independent midwifery and normal, physiological birth in Italy. In 2008 she launched the first two-year course in integrated physiology and salutogenesis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Fresh Heart Publishing
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 190661914X
• ISBN 13: 9781906619145
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192