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Understanding Doulas and Childbirth : Women, Love, and Advocacy / by Cheryl A. Hunter, Abby Hurst

New York ; s.l. : Palgrave Macmillan US ; Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016

Online-Ressource (IX, 140 p, online resource)

Englisch

Includes bibliographical references and index

978-1-137-48536-6

978-1-137-48535-9 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

863316425

OCoLC: 953071980 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1057/978-1-137-48536-6

HM401-1281

305.3     Ähnliche Literatur

bicssc: JFSJ ; bisacsh: SOC032000

LOC-SH: Social sciences ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity ; Social Sciences ; Sociology ; Human body -- Social aspects ; Family. ; Social groups. ; Social sciences ; Sociology ; Human body -- Social aspects ; Sex (Psychology) ; Gender expression ; Gender identity

1. Childbirth, Women, and Doulas -- 2. Nurses, Families, and Doulas: An Overview of Different Roles in Childbirth -- 3. Birthing with Doulas: The Embodied Birth Experience -- 4. Love and Advocacy in Childbirth -- 5. Conclusion .

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This book contextualizes how having a doula, or labor-support woman, present during childbirth results in lower rates of medical interventions. American women are inundated with views that childbirth is inherently risky, their bodies deficient, and therefore encouraged to accept the medicalized nature of childbirth resulting in high rates of unwarranted interventions that can pose significant risk in a normal pregnancy. Why is birthing with a doula different? The narratives in this book support the belief that doulas often question the high rates of medical interventions in childbirth, fundamentally lodging a critique about the medicalization of childbirth to the women they serve. These stories share a very different philosophy about childbirth; one where the female body is capable, resilient, and not normally requiring external medical intervention. Doulas enter into a care-provider relationship that focuses on the experience of the birth as something transformative, to be honored and centered on the woman’s body in an active role in the process. Lastly, doulas model to their clients both love and advocacy because doulas believe that modeling these behaviors will translate as women become mothers through the process of childbirth. .