By Emma Ashworth Today, March 8th, is International Women’s Day, a day to celebrate the strength, power and, of course, history, of women. I want to share some history which affects every woman or birthing person who has a child: The history of hospital birth and home birth. How did we come to birth most…
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Nurturing Birth Book Review: The AIMS Guide to Your Rights in Pregnancy and Birth
Book review by Marius Griffin The AIMS Guide to Your Rights in Pregnancy and Birth, by Emma Ashworth, is available from the AIMS shop as a printed book or on Kindle, for £8: https://www.aims.org.uk/shop
Can we be doulas and birth activists?
By Emma Ashworth, Nurturing Birth doula Why are you a doula (or want to be a doula)? At the heart and soul of it, we passionately want women and people to have incredible, empowering, beautiful births, right? And because we see when that’s not happening and we want it to stop! For many of us…
Montgomery & birth rights: what doulas should know
By Emma Ashworth What is Montgomery and how does it relate to birth rights? ‘Montgomery’ is critical to understanding our birth rights. It refers to a legal case, formally known as ‘Montgomery V Lanarkshire’, where Montgomery is Mrs Nadine Montgomery, and Lanarkshire is the Lanarkshire Health Board in Scotland. The case was brought after Mrs…