This pioneering guide provides birth professionals, pregnant people, and advocates with comprehensive insight into navigating conception, pregnancy, birth, and the perinatal period whilst fat. Drawing on the author's decade of experience as well as evidence-based research and case studies from people sharing their own perspectives and stories, this authoritative and compassionate book provides practical and effective advice on how to improve quality of care for fat parents. It covers a wide range of topics across the birth journey and beyond including interviews with a number of high-profile people including Nicola Salmon and Amber Marshall and empowers readers to feel reassured and confident in their choices and rights. This ground-breaking resource challenges the pervasive bias against fat service users in the birthing world and acts as a call to action to dismantle the fatphobic stigma present in our healthcare systems in order to create an environment that is inclusive of all bodies.
AJ Silver is a birth and postnatal doula, trained with Badass Doulas, Abuela Doulas and Red Tent Doulas. They are also a qualified Babywearing consultant. AJ has worked in the birth and baby world for almost a decade, cementing themselves as the expert in their field in the UK. AJ created the Queer Birth Club, the UK's only LGBT+ Competency workshop for those working in the birth world. It has been delivered to NHS trusts, universities, doula training schools, hypnobirthing schools, lactation consultants and more.
Fat, Black and Pregnant - Fiona Houston Conception - Nicola Salmon Interview with Caprice Fox Interview with Dr Mari Greenfield Fat and Multipara - Interview with Orla Gallagher Pregnancy & Birth Choices Big Birtha's - Amber Marshall Gestational Diabetes Water Birth Home Birth Induction Of Labour (Sub chapter) Interview with Lesbemums Perinatal and Fat Sub Chapter Interview with Vanisha Virgo Fat Parenting Interview with Molly Forbes Rebuttals, Objections and Advocacy
Informative guide for birth professionals and pregnant people about navigating conception, pregnancy, birth and the perinatal period when fat
Another invaluable read from AJ Silver, on a subject very close to my heart; making birth better for every body. This educational and thought-provoking guide will help you understand and unpack your own bias on bigger bodies and ultimately provide better informed and safer antenatal care for people of all shapes and sizes. An essential read for all birth workers. -- Siobhan Miller, Founder of The Positive Birth Company and author of Hypnobirthing: Practical Ways to Make Your Birth Better
