Table of Contents

1. The concept of normality in the context of challenging or complex childbirth
            
2. Positive approaches to health for childbearing women
           
3. The risk discourse
            
4. The supervisory perspective
             
5. Fear of childbirth: The impact of tocophobia on normal birth
            
6. Latent phase of labour
          
7. Obesity
        
8. Breech presentation
            
9. Multiple pregnancy
        
10.Vaginal birth after Caesarean section
            
11. When labour slows or stops
           
12. Maternal diabetes and gestational diabetes 

About the Author

Karen Jackson has been a midwife lecturer at Nottingham University, UK, for 22 years and a practising midwife for almost 30 years, and has co-edited Midwifery practice: critical illness, complications and emergencies Case Book (2012).

Helen Wightman has been a practising midwife for over 30 years and currently works both as a labour ward co-ordinator and a midwife lecturer at Nottingham University, UK, and has co-edited The Midwifery Testbook (2012).