- Title
- Theorising birth territory
- Creator
- Fahy, Kathleen
- Relation
- Birth Territory and Midwifery Guardianship: Theory for Practice, Education and Research p. 11-19
- Relation
- http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/bookdescription.cws_home/714712/description#description
- Publisher
- Books for Midwives / Elsevier
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2008
- Description
- Indeed most contemporary women want to know how they and their babies are progressing in labour. Further, women want to know that if they need medical assistance in birth that they can obtain it easily. The important point is that in spite of wanting the benefits of obstetrics when needed women do not want to be put under surveillance and taken over by obstetric rules and procedures. There is a real difference between having your baby 'delivered' and 'giving birth'. Having your baby delivered induces feelings of dependency, weakness and gratitude to others while giving birth promotes feelings of love, strength and self-confidence. There is a middle path for modern women; to create a birth sanctum. A sanctum can be created in either a birth centre or a home that is near to a maternity hospital. In these birth settings midwives provide relatively unobtrusive monitoring of woman who are giving birth and they can refer quickly and easily to medicine if required.
- Subject
- birth territory; midwives; home births; childbirth; feminism
- Identifier
- uon:6658
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/804570
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780750688703
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