Women-centred maternity care through midwifery is in danger of extinction, replaced by a medical model that treats birth as an illness. Birth is an act of love, not one of fear and loathing, so what are the consequences? Matilda Lee reports
… 'in danger of extinction'. ‘People no longer understand that our bodies are as well … do it, so can you.' At the birth centre she founded at the eco-community, ‘the Farm' in rural Tennessee, Ina May …
For International Women's Day, the Ecologist reports on the maternity care crisis and looks at ways to overcome the culture of fear facing mothers-to-be
… taken over by technology, exiled from communities into hospitals and overhyped on TV dramas by scare-mongering pundits . As we don't see it happening in our daily lives - around two per cent of births in England are home …
An exclusive interview with Claire Jones-Hughes - the woman behind Brighton’s now famous breastfeeding flash mob. By Matilda Lee
… very threatening. Breasts, used in their functional capacity as a life-giving organ, … to Claire Jones-Hughes in a Brighton café understandable, but not acceptable. One … They had just been swimming and were both hungry, so while she sat munching on a plate of …