The AIMS Guide to Giving Birth to Your Placenta, principal author Emma Ashworth, is available from AIMS and costs £8. Rachel Quickenden, Nurturing Birth doula shares her thoughts on this new book Like many doulas, I came to birth work after giving birth myself. My first birth, un unplanned hospital birth, ended with a retained placenta –…
Book review
Nurturing Birth Book Review: Dynamic Positions in Birth
Book Review by Sally Carter Dynamic Positions in Birth (2nd edition) by Margaret Jowitt is published by Pinter and Martin and costs £12.99 Dynamic Positions in Birth was an informative and at times compelling read. As a doula, I understand the physiology of childbirth and the relevance of active, upright positions during labour and birth….