Dangerous Liaisons?

“Why should women have to prepare themselves and psyche themselves up for encounters with health professionals? It’s ridiculous.” Not my words, but those of a Nicky Grace, a midwife. The maternity system seems unable to organise itself so that women meet a familiar,...

Journeying towards better birth

I came to the birth world through psychology. After my third child was born happily at home, I decided to write a home birth book and also to do some research into mothers’ experience of birth at home and in hospital. I couldn’t believe home birth was as dangerous as...