title: Promoting normality through choice in Blackburn.
abstract: This article offers the reader insight drawing on three different perspectives of how it feels to work at a freestanding birth centre in the north west of England. These perspectives are from a supervisor of midwives, a band six midwife and a student midwife and reveal different views of birth at different stages of midwifery. However, all three are certain that the birth centre enables them to promote normal birth and all three are keen to broaden accessibility of birth centres to all women. In this way, they argue, there is a greater likelihood of women achieving physiological births.
authors: Sarah
authors: S
authors: Johnson
authors: Louise
authors: L
authors: O'Malley
authors: Caroline
authors: C
authors: Broome
mesh_terms: D016550:Birthing Centers / Q000458:organization & administration*; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric / Q000379:methods / Q000451:nursing*; D005260:Female; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006700:Home Childbirth / Q000451:nursing* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D008880:Midwifery / Q000458:organization & administration*; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D007744:Obstetric Labor Complications / Q000517:prevention & control; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D011247:Pregnancy; D011256:Pregnancy Outcome