{"product_id":"home-birth-mary-l-nolan-9780415557542","title":"Home Birth: The Politics of Difficult Choices","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe rhetoric of choice is much used in UK health policy and home birth is one of the three options that women are entitled to choose between when deciding where to have their baby. However, many women making this choice run into considerable opposition from the maternity service. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHome Birth: the politics of difficult choices\u003c\/em\u003e focuses on the experiences of women whose choices were opposed by health professionals during their pregnancy journey. It confronts why and how women are being denied home birth and raises some challenging issues for current midwifery practice. Using ten women's narratives, this important volume explores why women might want to give birth at home and considers ideas of risk and informed choice in pregnancy and birth. The book includes chapters on communication and language; fear and stress; advocacy and autonomy; fathers' experience of contested place of birth and free birthing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePointers to best practice are presented whilst the text incorporates women's narratives throughout, making this a practical and relevant read for midwifery students as well as practising midwives and childbirth educators, all of whom have a duty to make home birth a real option for women.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary L. Nolan\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0415557542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780415557542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d","brand":"Mary L. Nolan","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136098808063,"sku":"9780415557542","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_75f26148-98ce-4ac5-a0b7-83ea02fba48d.jpg?v=1770160502","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/home-birth-mary-l-nolan-9780415557542","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}