Table of Contents

The power of birth stories. Tales from home. Tales from hospital. Tales from birth centres and caseload schemes. Tales of loss. Tales of healing. Tales of triumph: A mother and a father's story. Tales of midwives and obstetricians. Tales from fathers and siblings. Tales from grandparents. Tales of unusual births. Tales from the labour ward. Towards humanised maternity care

About the Author

Denis Walsh is Midwife and Associate Professor in Midwifery, University of Nottingham. Sheena Byrom is Midwife and Consultant Midwife, East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and University of Central Lancashire.