Midwife Pip’s Guide to a Positive Birth
  • Published: 4 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529918557
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336

Midwife Pip’s Guide to a Positive Birth

Tools to Feel Calm and Confident

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4 Apr 2024
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4 May 2024
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The book every parent-to-be needs from up-and-coming NHS midwife, Pip Davies, in a perennial area of the parenting books market.

‘An empowering birth book for every mum-to-be’ DR ZOE WILLIAMS

Midwife Pip is on a mission to help every parent-to-be to feel informed and prepared for birth. With the right education and support, she firmly believes that all births - whether planned or unplanned, assisted, caesarean, waterbirth or hypnobirth - can be positive.

Midwife Pip's Guide to a Positive Birth will take you through every stage of preparation for pregnancy, labour, birth and beyond. Packed with evidence-based information and insider tips and tricks from a practising midwife, this book is your personal antenatal class. You'll discover:

- How to harness the connection between your mind and body
- The importance of the birth environment and how to influence it
- The best positions for labour and birth
- How your birth partner can best support you
- Breathwork and visualisations to help you relax
- How to make an informed decision about birth, including VBAC
- The key questions to ask your midwife
- What you need to know about postpartum aftercare, and much more!

Whether you're having your first or your fifth baby, this honest and reliable guide will equip you with everything you need to know to embrace the exciting journey of parenthood.
  • Published: 4 April 2024
  • ISBN: 9781529918557
  • Imprint: Ebury Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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About the author

Pip Davies

Pip Davies is an experienced midwife, hypnobirthing and antenatal educator, creator of The Midwife Pip Podcast, and most importantly, a mum. She has been a practising NHS midwife for more than a decade, with roles in low-risk birthing centres, antenatal and postnatal wards, assessment units, community and homebirths, and most recently as a Labour Ward Coordinator and Midwifery Sister. Pip is on a mission to ensure everybody has the right support and receives honest, evidence-based information to have a positive birth experience. Follow Pip on Instagram @midwife_pip or visit her at www.midwifepip.com.

Praise for Midwife Pip’s Guide to a Positive Birth

'As soon as I found Pip my pregnancy got more enjoyable. She is a reassuring, experienced, qualified, evidence-based professional and us women need more of her! This book is a long time coming and a must-read for all expectant parents!'

Chloe Madeley

'Every woman deserves a positive birth, and this can happen in any setting from at home in a pool to the operating theatre. Midwife Pip's book offers fantastic advice on how to make your birth the best it can be.'

Milli Hill, author of THE POSITIVE BIRTH BOOK

‘An empowering birth book for every mum-to-be’

Dr Zoe Williams