Beyond the Birth Plan

Rhea Dempsey is a highly sought after childbirth educator, counsellor, speaker, author and birth attendant with experience at over one thousand births. She is respected, both in Australia and internationally, as an insightful thinker and presenter on the topic of working with pain—both physical and psychological— in childbirth, and the implications of this for normal physiological birth and postnatal wellbeing. Rhea's first book Birth with Confidence: Savvy choices for normal birth, a bestseller published in 2013, has become a word-of-mouth classic. With three adult daughters and five grandchildren of her own, Rhea's understanding of birth has been gained from her own birth experiences and during forty years working with pregnant women, their partners, support people, midwives and medical practitioners.