Birth with Confidence (paperback)

My first book Birth With Confidence brings together all the key concepts I share with parents-to-be in my workshops.

I describe how in many countries around the world, including Australia, intervention rates are well above those recommended by the World Health Organisation and climbing – and how this makes physiological birth almost impossible in our current birth culture. I then share what you can do to beat those odds.

Birth With Confidence will:

• Outline the benefits 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.