The Natural Science of Childbirth The Crucial Connection Between Mind and Body in Birth

Leading childbirth activist and campaigner Margaret Jowitt's new book explores the biological science of pregnancy and childbirth – as opposed to the clinical science of medicalised childbirth.The book addresses many aspects of the birth experience, from the specifically human difficulties giving birth that arise from our bodies being made for upright walking, to the effects on our psychology of the hormones of stress, pregnancy and childbirth.

Authoritatively written, thoroughly researched and illustrated in detail, this is crucial reading for student midwives, NCT teachers, childbirth educators and women preparing for childbirth.

Ever since the birth of her third child in 1991, Margaret Jowitt has been working towards making birth a safer and more rewarding experience for mothers and their babies. After a first degree in music and psychology, she gained an MPhil from Keele in 1998, researching into Mothers' Experience of Birth at Home and in Hospital. Her last book, Dynamic Positions in Birth, was a fresh look at how women's bodies work in labour.

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