Birth Matters - A Midwife's Manifesta

I'm always on the look out for informative, as well as entertaining books relating to birth - and I'm happy to share with you that BIRTH MATTERS does just that.

Written by Americas leading midwife, Ina May Gaskin "Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta" features a collection of The Farm and home birth stories a brief history of midwives and Second-Wave Feminism, as well as a look at the technology commonly used in the hospital today and how it affects the outcomes of births.  Gaskin asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.

Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth-which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections-and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth. 

To order this entertaining and informative book, please contact info@birthworks.co.za - cost price is R180.00 excluding postage. Include your name, number of books and your postal address.