September 17, 2002

Copyright and "Preparing for Birth"

Many childbirth educators have a copy of my book “Preparing for Birth: Mothers” which they use as a reference for their classes.

From time to time I am asked if some pages can be photocopied for use as handouts for the parents. Invariably, my answer is “no”, not because I don’t want parents to have access to the information, but because I want parents to have all the information in the book, not just some selected pages. There is always a risk that issues seen as “difficult” by educators may be left out of the program, perhaps because of their own discomfort or lack of knowledge or because including them would risk going against “the party line” promoted by their hospital.

Sometimes the expense of buying the books is quoted as a reason. Photocopying and assembling take time (and money) and parents will be handed a sheaf of pages amongst a collection of leaflets. These are likely to be lost and don’t necessarily look very professional (they may be covered with advertising, for example).

My policy has always been to make these booklets available very cheaply when bought in bulk. Many hospitals now order in lots of 100 and some take regular orders of 500 or more. For these larger orders we will negotiate a price that gives an added discount. In this way, we hope that everyone is happy: the educators get a quality product that saves them work, looks good and contains notes on all the information they would include in a normal program. Parents get a concise, well illustrated manual that is user-friendly and jargon free. I am happy because I know that parents are getting the full story and not just an edited version.

I know that some people do make copies. Please respect our copyright laws ........

Posted by andrea at September 17, 2002 05:18 PM

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I always recommend "preparing for childbirth" during my chilbirth education classes. I have my dog-eared copy with me for parents to look through and decide whether thay want to buy one. I would really like to purchase a bulk load and distribute them but this would be frowned upon by the hospital I work for (by obstetricians and some of the midwives). Instead I suggest that parents order them on line if they want one. I was just wondering if many of these orders were actually coming through.

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