In many countries around the world, including Australia, intervention rates are well above those recommended by the World Health Organisation and climbing. In Birth with Confidence, I explain why physiological birth is almost impossible in our current birth culture—and what you can do to beat the odds.
Birth With Confidence will:
- Outline the benefits for mothers and babies of physiological birth
- Help you understand how our current birth culture can undermine your intentions for physiological birth
- 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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Our emotional patterns – the habituated stress responses that we have developed from infancy, through childhood and into our adult lives – can have huge impacts on labour. (As you can guess, they also have a big impact on our parenting.)
In Beyond the Birth Plan I invite you to explore how your ‘fight’, ‘flight’, ‘freeze’ and ‘fawn’ responses and your unique style of attachment in relationships may play out.
I share stories drawn from the hundreds of women I have supported in birth, to illustrate how many impactful life experiences, such as loss, grief and abuse, can influence pregnancy, labour and birth.
So, if you’re ready for the next step in your birth preparation, join me to go deeper.