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Home Birth
A Family Affair
by
Jacqueline Paddison
‘Home Birth a Family Affair’ is based upon a qualitative research project and PhD thesis. It is primarily about home birth, the factors that shaped women’s decision making and their experiences about giving birth in a familiar environment. However, it also examines the medical and social framing of the process and much of the study is concerned with boundaries; conceptual, ideological and geographic with all three emerging as central to women’s experience. The study examines how the environment of the home, as a private space, links with the subjective feelings of security and the delicate physiological changes taking place in the woman’s body.
The research site is a small town in the East Riding of Yorkshire with a relatively high number of women giving birth a home. It was therefore important to undertake this study whilst the opportunity presented itself. Although the research was largely about home birth, the women’s frank reflections of their birthing experiences in hospital provides important insights for those working within this environment.
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First released in paperback 2005
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January 2008
