Author: S. Kitzinger
When a woman is denied all choice - feels as if she has been swallowed up by a vast machine and spat out at the other end with a baby - how can she come to terms with that ordeal? One new mother in twenty is diagnosed with traumatic stress after childbirth. In Birth Crisis Sheila Kitzinger explores the
disempowerment and anxiety experienced by these women. Topics include: · increasing intervention in pregnancy · the shift in emphasis from relationships to technology in childbirth · how family, friends and
professional caregivers can reach out to traumatized mothers · how women can work through stress to understand themselves more deeply and grow in emotional
maturity · how care and the…
