Some things need to be cut out from my original plan, as the essay has gone in a different direction than anticipated.
Firstly, I won’t be writing about foetal heart monitoring anymore, as I feel I’ve covered the most important and common medical interventions. I also won’t be doing the interviews, as I think the survey is enough independent research to cover personal responses to childbirth.
Instead of this, I’ll be looking more in detail to how perceptions of childbirth link to an increase in fear of childbirth and medicalisation. This is a topic that came up in both my study on epidurals, and also when I studied One Born Every Minute. I’ve established that childbirth is becoming increasingly medicalised; therefore it is important to look at why.
Midwifery EPQ 