Supporting Fat Birth : A Book for Birth Professionals and Parents / A. J. Silver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silver, A. J., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pregnancy.

Childbirth.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London, England : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, [2024]

Summary:

This pioneering guide provides birth professionals, pregnant people, and advocates with comprehensive insight into navigating conception, pregnancy, birth, and the perinatal period whilst fat. Drawing on the author's decade of experience as well as evidence-based research and case studies from people sharing their own perspectives and stories, this authoritative and compassionate book provides practical and effective advice on how to improve quality of care for fat parents. It covers a wide range of topics across the birth journey and beyond including interviews with a number of high-profile people including Nicola Salmon and Amber Marshall and empowers readers to feel reassured and confident in their choices and rights. This ground-breaking resource challenges the pervasive bias against fat service users in the birthing world and acts as a call to action to dismantle the fatphobic stigma present in our healthcare systems in order to create an environment that is inclusive of all bodies.

Contents:

Intro

Supporting Fat Birth

Cover

Of related interest

Title Page

Copyright

Content

Preface

1. Intro

2. Fat, Black and Pregnant

3. Conception

4. Fat, Black, Queer and considering conceiving

5. Fat Birth

6. Fat and Multipara

7. Pregnancy and Birth Choices

8. Big Birthas

9. Gestational Diabetes

10. Water Birth

11. Home Birth

12. Induction of Labour

13. Perinatal and Fat

14. Fat Parenting

15. Rebuttals, Objections and Advocacy

Afterword

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-83997-634-9