[5] She lectured widely in the USA and Canada, the Caribbean, Israel, Australia, Latin America, South Africa and Japan and worked as a consultant to the International Childbirth Education Association.

Her books cover women's experiences of breastfeeding, antenatal care, birth plans, induction of labour, epidurals, episiotomy, hospital care in childbirth, children's experiences of being present at birth and post traumatic stress following childbirth.

Some of her writing was controversial for its time; The Good Birth Guide (1979) may have caused a rift in her relationship with the NCT[4] and she was often at odds with radical feminist views.

It is – must be – also a political issue, in terms of the power of the medical system, how it exercises control over women and whether it enables them to make decisions about their own bodies and their babies.

[8][9][10] Her autobiography, A Passion for Birth: My Life: Anthropology, Family and Feminism, was published shortly after her death.