Untangling the Maternity Crisis

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Contributors' affiliations -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword: The family experience of home birth -- 1 Introduction: A toxic culture -- Part I The Birth Project Group (BPG) survey: Introduction -- 2 The BPG survey: The results -- 3 The BPG survey: Working with the data -- 4 The BPG survey: Fear -- 5 Floors, ceilings and cellars: Midwives, the NMC and 'The Code' -- Part II Understanding traumatic experiences for women, midwives, families and the wider community: Introduction -- 6 Trauma experienced by student midwives -- 7 The trauma women experience as the result of our current maternity services -- 8 When midwives become other -- 9 Fundamental contradictions: The business model versus midwifery values -- Part III Responding practically and politically to change our troubled maternity structures: Introduction -- 10 Healing ourselves as midwives -- 11 Creating a community of support for pregnant women and new mothers -- 12 Performing the revolution, creating a counter-narrative on birth in Ireland -- 13 Documenting empowerment -- 14 Hidden in plain sight: Mapping the erasure of the maternal body from visual culture -- 15 Responding to the tragedy of maternal death: A collective challenges the state -- Part IV Looking ahead and back -- 16 Confronting the state of emergency which is our maternity services -- Afterword: 'Mrs Brown is fully' -- References -- Index