All of us in the maternity care professions are saddened to hear of the death on Sunday of Sheila Kitzinger at her home in Oxfordshire.  She was my tutor and mentor when I studied with the National Childbirth Trust and she was a great inspiration to all of us in raising the awareness of the benefits of family-based childbirth practices.  Through her books and her teaching she had a great influence on both the medical professionals and the childbearing families to provide choices and question unnecessary routines.   For her, like all of us trained through the NCT, prenatal education was inseparable from lactation counselling.  On a personal level, she was a warm hospitable woman and after I moved to Israel, I had many happy visits to her beautiful home as well as her support of the founding of our Israel Childbirth Education Centre.  Her legacy will live on for nobody can completely turn the clock back to those dark days of routine episiotomies, birth in the lithotomy position, breastfeeding every four hours for ten minutes each side.  She will be missed by her wonderful husband Uwe who was so tolerant of having his house filled for workshops and meetings, and by her five daughters who inherited her determination to make a difference.
Wendy Blumfield,
NCT Trained Tutor Prenatal Teacher/Breastfeeding Counsellor



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