Supporting Fat Birth : A Book for Birth Professionals and Parents

This pioneering resource provides birth professionals and pregnant people insight into navigating birth, from conception to the perinatal period, whilst fat. It dismantles the stigma faced by fat people in the birthing world and provides effective guidance for better quality of care whilst empowering them to feel confident in their choices.

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.