Birth and Parenting Skills: New Directions in Antenatal EducationPaperback, 1 February 2005

176 pages

• Demonstrates the potential for antenatal education to make a positive impact on women's experience of birth
• Points the way to accessing new sources of funding for antenatal classes
• Illustrates new teaching strategies with the aim of accessing groups of parents currently not involved with antenatal education
• Aims to show how antenatal education can be a central, rather than peripheral part of the holistic care provided to pregnant women and their families