We review ‘Bump’ by Kate Evans. By Rachel Ouwejan Feb 2015 I was privileged to read and review Kate Evans’ book “Bump: how to make, grow and birth a baby.” The author describes it as “a choose-your-own adventure comic mash-up of choices and options in fertility,...
Undisturbing Birth. By Rangimarie Aperahama & Madison Fredheim May 2015 Sarah Buckley is not only a Dr at the forefront in her field, exploring the true physiology of birth. She is also a passionate advocate for home birth. As part of her ‘Undisturbing Birth’...
The Pelvic Floor. By Janet Thackray Jun 2018 Many women accept incontinence as part of being female and giving birth, and do not seek help when the problem arises. This can be due to lack of knowledge, shame or embarrassment, and normalisation of incontinence as an...
The Birth House by Ami McKay. By Sian Hannagan Sep 2014 Dora Rare, the first daughter born in five generations of Rare’s, was born in the caul, touched by magic, a changeling, a witch. Born out of turn, born a woman, she lives her life caught between her desire for...
Thanks to my midwife. By Charlotte Cummings Sep 2015 Things I appreciated about you… The considered way you use language. I so appreciated your awareness of the power of your words to shape my feelings and thoughts, and my experience of pregnancy, birth and...
