Milli Hill set up the Positive Birth Movement in 2012 with a passion to improve the experience of birth for women. Since then she has written two books about birth, The Positive Birth Book (Pinter and Martin 2017) and Give Birth like a Feminist (Harper Collins 2019). Both books have won high praise and continue to be bestsellers in their category. The Positive Birth Book is most suitable for pregnant women and their partners, giving you all the information you need to build a positive mindset, and prepare for every kind of birth, all in one place! Give Birth like a Feminist is a galvanising book, asking why birth is such an overlooked feminist issue, and exploring how we can improve birth, both for ourselves and for all women. It is suitable for you if you are pregnant, but also if you are interested in feminism, women’s issues, health and wellbeing, midwifery, birth work and beyond.
You can buy Milli’s books from Amazon and all good book sellers.
Praise for The Positive Birth Book
One of Mumsnet’s Best Pregnancy Books 2020
Tommy’s Top 10 Reads for Mums to Be
‘One of the best books about birth’ Mother&Baby
“These are much-needed, brilliant, reassuring, pioneering, kick-ass books that all women – especially mothers – should read!”
Emma Jane Unsworth, award winning author of Adults
“Genuinely life-changing”
Jess Brammar, Editor-in-Chief, Huff Post UK.
“The Positive Birth Book is like everything I ever googled pre-birth rolled into a friendly, warm format and is full-to-bursting with USEFUL information. For example, I am rhesus negative and to be honest I never really understood what that meant, I just did what I was told! This book explains it so well. It is also refreshing to read something positive about all types of birth – I didn’t feel like I was being preached to. I wish I had read this book during my pregnancies!”
Sarah Turner, The Unmumsy Mum
“The Positive Birth Book takes expectant parents through the maze of information and choices, in a down to earth, practical, empowering, reassuring way. I highly recommend that you put your feet up, relax and enjoy preparing yourself for the birth of your baby by reading this great book.”
Sue Atkins, ITV This Morning Parenting Expert
“So good I read it TWICE! And now my fiance is reading it! Thank you. It’s a brilliant book that all mums to be should read!”
Hayley Tamaddon, Emmerdale, Dancing on Ice, Coronation Street
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The Positive Birth Book is also available in Dutch and Russian.
Praise for Give Birth Like a Feminist
Voted one of the ten best pregnancy books for expectant parents by The Independent
“I feel so lucky to have read Milli’s book while pregnant, she completely changed my way of looking at giving birth”
Ella Mills, Deliciously Ella
“Part of a raft of new titles broaching that final frontier of feminism, family life”
Prospect Magazine
“Clear, compelling and convincing…Milli Hill’s exploration of childbirth as central feminist issue is a must-read”
Soraya Chemaly – Author of Rage Becomes Her
“A rallying cry for women everywhere…everyone should read this book and look at childbirth through a feminist lens.”
Ricki Lake, Producer and Abby Epstein, Director: The Business of Being Born
“Finally someone brave enough to say the words feminist and birth in the same sentence in a book that is not an academic polemic. Birth is THE feminist issue of our century and feminists have dropped the ball.”
Hannah Dahlen, Professor of Midwifery, University of Western Sydney
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Give Birth like a Feminist will be published in the USA in May 2021.
The Positive Birth Book Visual Birth Plan cards are a great way to think through your birth choices. This handy pack of 100 cards, based on Milli Hill’s best-selling The Positive Birth Book, is available from Amazon or Pinter and Martin.
These beautifully illustrated cards bring your birth plan to life. Each card features an icon on one side and a clear explanation of the icon on the other.
The icons represent every possible birth choice in every setting, from home birth to caesarean. There are some blank cards included too, because every birth is unique. You’ll also find a guide inside with suggestions to get you started.
The cards can be used in a number of ways: by pregnant women who want to work through their birth choices in a more visual and dynamic way; by those who want to explore them with their partner, doula, midwife or other supporters; or by birth professionals as a starting point for activities and discussions with their clients.
SAMPLE CARDS:
