Description
- Internationally relevant exploration of sustainability in maternity care.
- Includes chapters by leading childbirth experts, including Ina May Gaskin, Lorna Davies, Mavis Kirkham, Soo Downe, Sally Pairman, Mary Nolan and Nicky Leap.
- Sustainability fits very well with the minimal intervention approach that midwifery embodies.
- Five sections cover: an overview of the concept of sustainability in midwifery; how to sustain the practice of midwifery; ecological practices within midwifery; consumerism and birth, and green parenting.
Table of Contents
Section One: The Politics of midwifery and Sustainability 1.Globalisation, midwifery and maternity services: struggles in meaning and practice in states under pressure. 2.Costing birth as commodity or sustainable public good. 3.Social justice, motherhood, and Midwives. 4.Valuing the labour of Midwives in Ontario, Canada and New Zealand. Section Two: Midwifery as a Sustainable Healthcare Practice 5.The Midwife as Social Connector. 6.Sustained by joy: The potential of flow experience for midwives and mothers and the blocking of that flow. 7.Sustained by compassion. 8.Career or life cycle: The phenomenon of transitioning work-setting within Midwifery in order to remain personally and professionally sustainable. 9.Sustaining rural midwives and rural communities. 10.Good housekeeping in sustainable midwifery practice. 11.A values-based approach to sustainability literacy in a bachelor of midwifery programme. Section Three: Supporting a sustainable approach to parenting 12.The pregnant environment 13.The birthing environment: a sustainable approach 14.Antenatal education: sustaining healthy families 15.Climate action and infant feeding 16.‘Good mothers’ in the age of finance.
