Janet Balaskas
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Janet Balaskas is an author
, founder of the Active Birth Movement, and childbirth educator. She is perhaps known best for her advocacy of active birth where the woman is free to move during labour, rather than being placed into stirrups or the lithotomy position
. She coined the term active birth which she explained in the first of her books Active Birth published in 1983.
Born in South Africa
she is currently the Director of the Active Birth Centre in London
, UK
.
Author
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, founder of the Active Birth Movement, and childbirth educator. She is perhaps known best for her advocacy of active birth where the woman is free to move during labour, rather than being placed into stirrups or the lithotomy position
Lithotomy position
The lithotomy position is a medical term referring to a common position for surgical procedures and medical examinations involving the pelvis and lower abdomen, as well as a common position for childbirth in Western nations...
. She coined the term active birth which she explained in the first of her books Active Birth published in 1983.
Born in South Africa
South Africa
The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...
she is currently the Director of the Active Birth Centre in London
London
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, UK
United Kingdom
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Books
- Active Birth, Unwin, London, 1983 ISBN 0-04-612033-5
- New Life - the book of exercises for childbirth, Sidgewick & Jackson, 1983
- The Active Birth Partners Handbook, Sidgewick & Jackson, 1984
- The Encyclopaedia of Pregnancy and Birth (with Yehudi Gordon). Macdonald Orbis, 1987
- Water Birth (with Yehudi Gordon), Unwin Hyman, 1991
- New Active Birth - A concise guide to natural childbirth, Thorsons, 1991
Articles
- Janet Balaskas, Sophie Hoare, Lyn Durward, Jo Garcia, and Caroline Langridge, "Birth Rights: Radical Consumerism in Health Care," Critical Social Policy, v. 2, n. 5, pp. 62–65 (1982)