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Birth Rights: A Guide to Getting the Best Possible Care for You and Your Child

Birth Rights: A Guide to Getting the Best Possible Care for You and Your Child

by PatThomas (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

    $3.25
Synopsis

This guide enables mothers to make positive choices about pregnancy and childbirth, It encourages them to trust and act on their instincts rather than acquiesce to the many unevaluated routines and procedures used in maternity care. Clear, challenging, unsentimental and under-awed by the miracle of modern obstetrics, here is a book that women can use from the minute they know they are pregnant to become more than simply silent partners in one of the most important events in their lives.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 395
 Publisher: The Women's Press Ltd
Published: 01 Feb 2002
ISBN 10: 0704347105
ISBN 13: 9780704347106

Media Reviews
'Don't write your birth plan before reading... Birth Rights. Here is a book that demystifies the birth process - from decoding pregnancy case notes, to understanding the impllcations of diagnostic testing, avolding a mis-managed labour and breaking the post-natal conspiracy of silence. Pat Thomas takes us behind the scenes to find out what makes health professionals tick and how to get the most out of them. Her work will help restore the continued imbalance between the birthing woman and those whose job is to support her.' Deborah Jackson, author of Do Not Disturb: The Benefits of Relaxed Parenting; 'An unbiased presentation of the facts from the woman's perspective... I would recommend every pregnant woman to buy, read and then use this book a continuing source of information throughout her reproductive years.' Marsden Wagner, MD, MSPH - World Health Organisation; 'The moment you have a positive pregnancy test,... Birth Rights should be your ante-natal bible .' Lynne McTaggart, editor, What the Doctors Don't Tell You
Author Bio
Pat Thomas is a renowned holistic health journalist with many years' experience. She is an experienced birth counsellor and the author of many highly acclaimed books on the subject of pregnancy and birth. These include Every Woman's BirthRights, Every Birth is Different, Pregnancy the Common Sense Approach and Alternative Therapies for Pregnancy & Birth. She also writes more widely in the field of health and her books Headaches - the Common Sense Approach, Living Organic and Cleaning Yourself to Death have been widely praised. Pat is also a prolific author of children's books. She is a qualified psychotheraplst, an active member of AIMS (Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services) and Editor of the AIMS Journal. As a Contributing Editor to three popular publications - the newsletter What Doctors Don't Tell You, the alternative health magazines Proof! and the parenting magazine Natural Parent - Pat has developed a unique and in-depth knowledge of medical matters relevant to women and children. Over the years Pat has become a well-known and outspoken advocate of holistic, person-centred care. She writes for newspapers and magazines, is a popular speaker at consumer health shows and professional gatherings alike, and is also a familiar face and voice on national and local TV and radio.