Dans ce livre Irene Chain-Kalinowski partage son expérience de sage-femme : son accompagnement global auprès des femmes, ses questionnements sur la pratique et sa passion, celle d'être une fervente "défenseur des femmes".
L'auteure, Irene Chain-Kalinowski, née en Angleterre, est infirmière, sage-femme, conférencière, avec à son actif une expérience à travers de nombreux continents : l'Europe, le Moyen-Orient et la Nouvelle-Zélande. Elle nous offre dans cet ouvrage en anglais des perpsectives de l'accompagnement de la grossesse et de l'accouchement, même s'il a été publié il y a déjà plusieurs annèes.
Suite à une carrière dans le secteur hospitalier, elle s'est orientée vers le libéral, en Nouvelle-Zélande, pour prendre en charge les femmes de manière holistique et combattre la médicalisation qui nuit à la physiologie de la naissance. "My body, My baby", relate ces histoires de femmes dans le processus de la naissance, elle les incite à prendre en main leur grossesse, en leur donnant les clés pour qu'elles retrouvent confiance dans leur capacité de mettre au monde.
"Ten years later, she came back; she had a new partner, a family friend, and was expecting her second baby. I knew we were not going to venture down the same path that we had previously taken. This midwife was much wiser and my practice was much more holistic. Danny had a good pregnancy, and she went into labor at thirty-eight weeks. From the first contraction she told me it hurt and gave me the ‘I can’t do it’. I told them to come to my home. We were five minutes from the hospital. Mick, her partner, was so caring, but over caring; he didn’t want to see her struggle. He just wanted to pamper and spoil her. They arrived at my house, and I examined her. She was in a very early labor; her cervix was very soft and starting to shorten. She was 1 cm open. I knew we had a long way to go before the birth of this baby. This was going to be like having a first baby as many years had passed since her last birth. Her contractions were short and sharp. I told her that her baby’s head was moving down, and she needed to help the process. I took them for a walk; we shared stories and were joking and having fun; every time she felt a cramp, we would change the subject."
