BOOK REVIEW REQUEST - Birth With Confidence: Savvy choices for normal birth
Dear ***
We are pleased to announce the publication of a natural birth book by Rhea Dempsey called
Birth With Confidence: Savvy choices for normal birth
and would love to offer you a copy for review. Please let me know who I would best address a copy to and if you would like any further information
Jo Askham
Boat House Press
+62 409 955 779
jo@boathousepress.com.au
We are pleased to announce the publication of a natural birth book by Rhea Dempsey called
Birth With Confidence: Savvy choices for normal birth
and would love to offer you a copy for review. Please let me know who I would best address a copy to and if you would like any further information
Jo Askham
Boat House Press
+62 409 955 779
jo@boathousepress.com.au
About the book
Australia’s birth intervention rates are well above those recommended by the World Health Organisation and climbing. In Birth with Confidence, one of Australia’s foremost thinkers on the subject of childbirth explains why normal birth is almost impossible in our current birth culture—and what women can do to beat the odds.
In this accessible, straightforward book, Rhea Dempsey draws on over thirty years’ experience to show how a woman’s choice of caregivers, support team and birthplace, as well as her life experience and personal attitudes to pain, will affect her birth outcomes. Featuring real-life stories, the latest Australian statistics and opportunities for guided personal reflection, Birth with Confidence provides the knowledge and practical advice that women need for the best chance of normal birth in today’s birth culture.
Birth With Confidence will:
- Outline the benefits for mothers and babies of a normal physiological birth
- Help you understand how our current birth culture can undermine your attempts at normal birth and the steps you can take to make sure it doesn’t
- 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 threshold
- Give you a framework for deciding on the best caregivers and support people to help you work through any ‘crisis of confidence’ during labour
RRP: $29.95 + shipping
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Boathouse Press
ISBN: 9780987402905
Published: May 2013
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Boathouse Press
ISBN: 9780987402905
Published: May 2013
Praise for Birth with Confidence
‘If you are pregnant or considering getting pregnant, this book is a must read’--PINKY MCKAY, author of Parenting by Heart, Sleeping Like a Baby and 100 Ways to Calm the Crying
‘Ever since I encountered first-hand the power and the clarity of Rhea Dempsey's vision of childbirth, I have been hoping Rhea would write a book. I have no doubt [it] will become an instant classic—for women about to give birth, for their partners, and for childbirth professionals across Australia and beyond’--MARIA TUMARKIN, author of Otherland and Traumascapes
‘During my twenty years of involvement in childbirth activism and research, many women have asked me ‘how can I have a good birth?’ I have wanted just this book—Rhea’s wise answers—to give them. Now we have it’--DR KEREEN REIGER, School of Social Sciences La Trobe University and author of Our Bodies Our Babies.
‘Ever since I encountered first-hand the power and the clarity of Rhea Dempsey's vision of childbirth, I have been hoping Rhea would write a book. I have no doubt [it] will become an instant classic—for women about to give birth, for their partners, and for childbirth professionals across Australia and beyond’--MARIA TUMARKIN, author of Otherland and Traumascapes
‘During my twenty years of involvement in childbirth activism and research, many women have asked me ‘how can I have a good birth?’ I have wanted just this book—Rhea’s wise answers—to give them. Now we have it’--DR KEREEN REIGER, School of Social Sciences La Trobe University and author of Our Bodies Our Babies.
About the author
A highly sought after educator, speaker, counsellor and birth attendant with experience at over a thousand births, Rhea Dempsey is respected as one of Australia’s foremost thinkers on the topic of childbirth. With three adult daughters of her own, Rhea’s understanding of birth has been gained during thirty-four years working with pregnant women, their partners, support people, midwives and medical practitioners.
Bought to you by:
