Sheila Kitzinger

Sheila Kitzinger Helena Elizabeth MBE ( born March 29, 1929 in Taunton, Somerset ) is a British social anthropologist who specializes in pregnancy, birth and upbringing of babies and young children. She is an advocate of natural childbirth and author of numerous books on childbirth and pregnancy. Although she is a lecturer in midwifery, she has never trained as a midwife. It strives to ensure that women get the information you need to decide on the nature and place of birth can.

She has an Honorary Professorship at Thames Valley University and teaches the Master's program in midwifery at the Wolfson School of Health Sciences. It also conducts workshops on social anthropology of birth and breastfeeding.

Sheila Kitzinger is a firm believer that every woman should be without risk factors have the ability to take advantage of a home birth services. She is a passionate author and her books cover the experience of women with prenatal care, planned births, induction of labor, PDA, episiotomy, hospital care during labor and the experience of babies during birth and the subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder in childhood.

Bibliography (selection)

  • Pregnancy & Birth: The Definitive Guide for parents
  • Birth: The Natural Way
  • The year after birth. A Survival Guide for Moms
  • Pregnancy and Birth
  • Natural Childbirth
  • I still my baby
  • Sexuality of women's life
  • Women as mothers. Birth and motherhood in different cultures
  • I still my baby. The Definitive Guide for the young mother
  • Sheila Kitzinger Birth Book
  • If my baby is crying
  • The natural alternative
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