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Row Over Plans To Broadcast Live Birth
Channel Five is to broadcast a woman giving birth live on TV for the first time. The creators of Big Brother will show Birth Night Live next Sunday. The show will follow up to 18 labouring women in a 2-hour special, in the hope that one of them will actually give birth in that time.…
Postnatal depression from a male perspective
Michael Lurie never realised the devastating effects that postnatal depression can have on women and men until his wife Kate succumbed to the illness. Here, and in his new book My Journey to her World, Michael talks about postnatal depression from the much overlooked male perspective. It was always in the back of our minds When I…
Rediscovering birth
Sheila Kitzinger Little, Brown, £18.99 Definitely not a handbook to steer you through pregnancy and labour, this is instead an absolutely fascinating international exploration of birth. Sheila Kitzinger obviously comes with a ‘history’ – she has strongly-held opinions on the right of women to choose home birth if they are not at high risk in pregnancy for example. This…
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Tagged Birth, Childbirth, Egypt, Home birth, Mexico, Midwife, Pregnancy, Sheila Kitzinger, Sicily, traumatic stress disorder, Water birth
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Sheila Kitzinger rediscovers birth
Sheila Kitzinger is respected the world over as a social anthropologist of birth and a leading authority on pregnancy and motherhood. Author of 23 books – published in 19 different languages – her advice has been treasured by millions. She is an honorary professor at Thames Valley University where she teaches an MA in midwifery…
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Tagged Birth, Childbirth, Epidural, Episiotomy, Induction, Midwife, Pregnancy, Sheila Kitzinger
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New monitor tells you baby’s crying
New monitor tells you why baby’s crying A new device could help parents solve the mystery of why their baby is crying, by revealing how different sounds express different moods and reasons for distress. Understanding why babies cry in order to calm them down and give them what they need is one of the hardest tasks…
