Abstract
One of the wonderful things about The Labour Progress Handbook (Simkin and Ancheta, 2000) is the inclusion of psychological reasons to explain the slowing of labour. The authors' approach is holistic and their solutions are based on empathic, caring responses, supporting physiology and, only as a last resort (at the very bottom of the list), medical interventions like artificial rupture of membranes and syntocinon. Their emphasis on the psychological and emotional when gauging how labour is going increasingly resonates with qualitative research revealing the ‘emotional work’ of labour support. Speaker after speaker at the inspiring 2nd Normal Birth Conference in the Lake District in early June told stories with this focus.
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