Birthing Outside the System : The Canary in the Coal Mine (Hardcover)

Part 1- understanding the problem Introduction Hannah Dahlen, Bashi Hazard and Virginia Schmied Freebirth in the United States Rixa Freeze Laura Tanner Giving birth outside the system in Australia: Freebirth and high risk homebirth ? Melanie Jackson Understanding women’s motivations to, and experiences of, freebirthing in the UK- Claire Feeley and Gill Thomson Birthing outside the system in the Netherlands Martine Hollander The rise of the unregulated birth worker in Australia: The canary flees the coal mine ? Elizabeth Rigg Identifying the poisonous gases seeping into the coal mine: what women seek to avoid in choosing to give birth at home Heather Crawford, Hannah Dahlen The journey of homebirth after caesarean (HBAC): fighting the system or birthing in peace Hazel Keedle and Sarah O’Connor Seeking control over birth in the Middle East Suha Hussein, Virginia Schmied Why South Asian women make extreme choices in childbirth Kaveri Mayra and Bashi Hazard Birth choices in Eastern Europe and Russia Daniella Drandic and Nickolas Rubashkin, Tamara Sadovaya and Svetlana Illarionova The modern day witch hunt Hannah Dahlen and Jo Hunter Part 2- working towards a solution Birth trauma: The noxious by product of a failing system Maddy Simpson and Agy Cater What are women’s legal rights when it comes to choice in pregnancy and childbirth?　- Bashi Hazard and Farah Diaz-Tello The role of the coroner in Australia: listen to or ignore the canary? Bashi Hazard Keeping the Canary singing: Maternity care plans and respectful homebirth transfer ? Rebecca Jenkinson and Deb Fox Why Aboriginal women want avoid the biomedical system: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Women’s Stories Donna Hartz, Sue Cutmore, Dea Thiele, Cherisse Buzzacott, Mel Briggs Midwifing women who make ‘off menu choices’ Kathryn Gutteridge and Hannah Dahlen Anthropologist, midwife, researcher: a perspective on birth outside the system Melissa Cheyney A conversation with the ‘breech whisperer’ Andrew Bisits interviewed by Hannah Dahlen Obstetricians discuss the coal mine and the Canary Alison Barrett and Andrew Kotaska