Birth with confidence

Written by Rhea Dempsey 

Birth With Confidence will:

• Outline the benefits for mothers and babies of a normal physiological birth

• Help you understand how our current birth culture can undermine your attempts at normal birth and the steps you can take to make sure it doesn’t

• Explain how the various ‘circles of influence’ around you — from your friends and family to the wider culture — can support or sabotage your birthing potential

• Help you identify your own attitude to pain — your ‘pain type’ — and what it will mean for your birth

• Provide practical and emotional steps you can take to raise your pain tolerance level

• Give you a framework for deciding on the best caregivers and support people to help you work through any ‘crisis of confidence’ during labour