The home birth lottery
Home births have been banned in Peterborough - and a midwife sacked for attending one. But it's not the only town in Britain where you'll struggle to get the delivery you want. Joanna Moorhead reports.
In his own words: the midwife
David Cunningham: I'm very much a man's man. If you were going to pick a man who you thought would become a midwife, I'd probably be the last person you'd think of.
‘The safest method of birth is by caesarean’
The 'too posh to push' jibe about caesarean births belittles a genuine, well-considered choice for many women, write Nicholas Fisk and Sara Paterson Brown.
It’s a gas
So Sheila Kitzinger thinks we should be delivering babies naturally. I'll take the drugs, says Kate Ashley.
Too realistic to push
Emily Bell: The caesarean should be celebrated as a medical advance which has saved many lives - including mine, perhaps.
‘I was so completely traumatised by the fact that I hadn’t given birth’
Kate Winslet has admitted that having her first child by caesarean made her feel a failure. Lucy Atkins knows exactly what she means.