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'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK (2016)
Journal Article
Budds, K., Locke, A., & Burr, V. (2016). 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK. Feminism and Psychology, 26(2), 170-187. https://doi.org/10.1177/0959353516639615

Over the past few decades the number of women having their first babies over the age of 35 in the United Kingdom has increased. Women’s timing of motherhood is invariably bound up with a discourse of “choice”, and in this paper we consider the role c... Read More about 'For some people it isn’t a choice, it’s just how it happens': accounts of ‘delayed’ motherhood among middle-class women in the UK.

Communicating choice: an exploration of mothers’ experiences of birth (2016)
Journal Article
Hallam, J. L., Howard, C. D., Locke, A., & Thomas, M. (2016). Communicating choice: an exploration of mothers’ experiences of birth. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 34(2), 175-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/02646838.2015.1119260

This article gives an in-depth insight into the ways in which communication between midwives and the birthing woman shape the birth experience.