No Perfect Birth

Kristin Haltinner

doi:10.5771/9781793643940

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In No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States, Kristin Haltinner examines the institutional and ideological forces that cause harm to women in childbirth in the rural United States. Interweaving the poignant and tragic stories of mothers with existing research on obstetric care and social theories, Haltinner points to how a medical staff’s lack of time, a mother’s need to navigate and traverse complex spaces, and a practitioner’s reliance on well-trodden obstetric routines cause unnecessary and lasting harm for women in childbirth. Additionally, Haltinner offers suggestions towards improving current practices, incorporating case models from other countries as well as mothers’ embodied knowledge.

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Copyright year: 2021
ISBN-Print: 978-1-7936-4393-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-7936-4394-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 182
Product type: Book Titles

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. A Brief Introduction to Scholarship on Traumatic Births No access
2. The People and Places Featured in these Stories No access
3. This Book’s Contribution No access
4. Chapter Organization No access
5. Notes No access
1. Time No access
2. A Brief Genealogy of U.S. Health Care No access
3. Rural Health Care No access
4. How a Lack of Time Hurts Patient-Provider Interactions No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. A Brief Genealogy of Obstetric Care No access
2. The Injurious Partitioning of Hospitals and Midwives No access
3. A Brief Genealogy of the NICU No access
4. The Injurious Space of the NICU No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Bureaucratic Inhumanity: The Injury of Routine No access
2. Access to Care No access
3. Infant and Maternal Mortality No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. Control of Women’s Bodies No access
2. Nonconsent in the Present No access
3. Causes of Contemporary Obstetric Violence No access
4. Structural and Legal Forces No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
1. Impact of Difficult Childbirth on Maternal Mental Health No access
2. The Genealogy of “Ideal Birth” No access
3. How Internalized Power-Knowledge Harms Mothers No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
1. A Genealogy of Postnatal Care in the United States No access
2. Impact of Traumatic Birth Experiences on Mothers’ Relationships with their Infants No access
3. Impact on Mothers’ Relationships with Other Children No access
4. Impact on Relationship with Partner No access
5. Access to Postpartum Mental Health Care No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
1. Resisting the Institutional and Ideological Forces of Power No access
2. “I Love This Man”: Trauma Mitigation through Taking Time No access
3. Knowledge from Below No access
4. Structural Factors that Facilitate High-Quality Interactions with Medical Staff: Finland No access
5. Strong Postpartum Mental Health Support No access
6. Conclusion: Improving Care No access
7. Notes No access
1. Possibilities for Change No access
2. How Social Change Happens No access
3. Final Thoughts No access
4. Notes No access
Appendix A: List of Participants Featured in Book No access Pages 147 - 152
Bibliography No access Pages 153 - 172
Index No access Pages 173 - 180
About the Author No access Pages 181 - 182