- Hardcover: 160 pages
- Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (8 Jun 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0415372658
- ISBN-13: 978-0415372657
- Product Dimensions: 2.3 x 1.6 x 0.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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'In the 1990s, Shelia Kitzinger set up a Birth Crisis hotline and corresponding workshops to address the concerns of women who contacted her about their difficult birth experiences. Birth Crisis springs from their stories of distress and healing. Each chapter knits their experiences together with the author's commentary and lists ways to avoid destructive maternity care.' - Jane Pincus, Vermont, USA
'Birth Crisis provides a thorough explanation of what constitutes a 'medicalized' birth experience and what the symptoms of PTSD are after giving birth. This book also provides women with alternatives to the medical model and provides support for women who may be experiencing trauma after giving birth....Birth Crisis does an excellent job of bringing to light a very important issue in women's health.' - Sara Martino, Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books
This is a comprehensive account of the ways that birth can be a traumatic experience in our society. Helen Sassoon, Research networker. New Digest
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One new mother in twenty is diagnosed with traumatic stress after childbirth. In Birth Crisis Sheila Kitzinger explores the disempowerment and anxiety experienced by these women. Key topics discussed include:
- increasing intervention in pregnancy
- the shift in emphasis from relationships to technology in childbirth
- how family, friends and professional caregivers can reach out to traumatized mothers
- how women can work through stress to understand themselves more deeply and grow in emotional maturity
- how care and the medical system needs to be changed.
Birth Crisis draws on mothers' voices and real-life experiences to explore the suffering after childbirth which has, until now, been brushed under the carpet. It is a fascinating and useful resource for student and practising midwives, all health professionals, and women and their families who want to learn how to overcome a traumatic birth.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I bought this book after seeing it advertised on the front page of the Birth Trauma Association's website. I read it in one sitting the afternoon it arrived, waiting desperately for my toddler to fall asleep so I could read it in peace. Just reading the Contents page gave reassurance that the book spoke about the issues that were troubling me, and would provide some much-needed help with sorting through the confused thoughts that I have about the horrible birth. On reading further I was not disappointed, but comforted, cheered, consoled, and strengthened by turns. I felt that I was not the odd one out, and was perfectly justified in feeling the way I did. I found this book a huge relief to read. Well recommended.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Should be compulsory reading for birth professionals and a life-line for women who had a difficult birth
15 Mar 2011
Format:Paperback
This book is what you need if you had a difficult/traumatic birth.
It avoids the platitudes or the sheer incomprehension of partners, family,friends and health workers. It validates your feelings and never desmises or patronizes you.
It's a pity it does not solve your trauma- as it is something you have to do yourself- but makes you realise you are not a crazy/ neurotic/ selfish/ self-pitying ( whatever the negative adjectives you call yourself) slob who should get on with life and, most vital of all, affirms that your feelings and reactions are normal in face of what you went through.
Should be compulsory reading to all health professionals who deal with pregnant, in labour or post partum women. Maybe the would think twice about their actions.
It avoids the platitudes or the sheer incomprehension of partners, family,friends and health workers. It validates your feelings and never desmises or patronizes you.
It's a pity it does not solve your trauma- as it is something you have to do yourself- but makes you realise you are not a crazy/ neurotic/ selfish/ self-pitying ( whatever the negative adjectives you call yourself) slob who should get on with life and, most vital of all, affirms that your feelings and reactions are normal in face of what you went through.
Should be compulsory reading to all health professionals who deal with pregnant, in labour or post partum women. Maybe the would think twice about their actions.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Very useful and well written book. A good resource for those who have had problems during their births as well as those working with pregnant women.
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