Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Figures ix
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Foreword xiii
6. Introduction
7. Part I Historical and Cultural Context
8. Chapter 1 From Tradition to Modernity: Time and Childbirth in Historical Perspective 17
9. Chapter 2 Cosmologies, Concepts and Theories: Time and Childbirth in Cross-cultural Perspective 37
10. Part II Time and Childbirth Practices
11. Chapter 3 Counting Time in Pregnancy and Labour 61
12. Chapter 4 The Progress of Labour: Orderly Chaos? 84
13. Chapter 5 Time and Midwifery Practice 104
14. Chapter 6 ‘Waiting on Birth’: Management of Time and Place in a Birth Centre 126
15. Chapter 7 Management of Time in Aboriginal and Northern Midwifery Settings 145
16. Part III Time and Childbirth Experiences
17. Chapter 8 Narrative Time: Stories, Childbirth and Midwifery 167
18. Chapter 9 How Long Have I Got? Time in Labour: Themes from Women’s Birth Stories 184
19. Chapter 10 ‘Feeding All the Time’: Women’s Temporal Dilemmmmas around Breastfeeding in Hospital 202
20. Chapter 11 Living with ‘Uncertainty’: Women’s Experience of Breastfeeding in the Current Japanese Social Context 222
21. Conclusion 247
22. Notes on Contributors 253
23. Index 255