Midwifery : best practice Volume 5

Summary: "This is Volume 5 in the Midwifery: Best Practice series. Each of the volumes in this Series is built around the familiar core of four main topic areas relevant to midwifery: pregnancy, labour / birth, postnatal and stories / reflection - and also includes a number of ‘focus on…’ sections. These are different in each volume and reflect a wide range of key and topical issues within midwifery. Each volume builds upon the others to provide a comprehensive library of articles that shows the development of thought in key midwifery areas. Volume 5 offers a range of wholly new topic areas within the ‘focus on…’ sections covering: ‘the birthing environment’, ‘women, midwives and risk’, ‘holistic health’ and ‘working/international stories’." -- publisher's website

Record details

ISBN: 9780750675406 (v. 5)
Physical Description: print
ix, 334 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm
Edition: Fifth edition.
Publisher: Edinburgh : Butterworth Heinemann/Elsevier, 2008.
Copyright: ©2008

Content descriptions

General Note:	"Imprint: Books for Midwives" -- publisher's website
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	SECTION 1: Women and midwives -- 1.1 Women, midwives, partnership and power -- 1.2 Conflicting ideologies as a source of emotion work in midwifery -- 1.3 Advice on advice -- 1.4 Developing a maternity unit visiting policy -- 1.5 Handle with care! -- 1.6 Protecting the public - from me -- 1.7 The landscape of caring for women: a narrative study of midwifery practice -- 1.8 Midwives: praise and beyond -- Topics for further reflection -- SECTION 2: Focus on…The Birthing Environment -- 2.1 How women choose where to give birth -- 2.2 Home birth: a social process, not a medical crisis -- 2.3 Home birth: safe as houses? -- 2.4 The influence of maternity units' intrapartum intervention rates and midwives' risk perception for women suitable for midwifery-led care -- 2.5 Birth centres: a success story -- 2.6 Defining and developing the birth centre -- 2.7 Improving the birthing environment (parts 1 and 2) -- Topics for further reflection -- SECTION 3: Pregnancy -- 3.1 Tell me a story -- 3.2 Getting parent education right -- 3.3 Fears and feelings in second-time pregnancy -- 3.4 Women's needs from antenatal care in three European countries -- 3.5 Women's experiences of unexpected ultrasound findings -- 3.6 TTP and me -- 3.7 A guide to less common antenatal blood tests -- 3.8 The assisted conception pregnancy -- 3.9 Asking the question: antenatal domestic violence -- 3.10 Preventing infant allergies -- Topics for further reflection -- SECTION 4: Focus On … Women, Midwives and Risk -- 4.1 Blood transfusion: the hidden dangers -- 4.2 Coagulation disorders (1) Deep vein thrombosis: breaking the silence -- 4.3 Coagulation disorders (2) Pulmonary embolism -- 4.4 An early warning system for pre-eclampsia -- Topics for further reflection -- SECTION 5: Labour and Birth -- 5.1 Births that taught me important lessons -- 5.2 Unlocking the potential for normality -- 5.3 Lambs to the slaughter -- 5.4 Water: what are we afraid of? -- 5.5 Routine cord blood gas analysis: an overreaction? -- 5.6 Need to know: vaginal birth after caesarean (part 1) -- 5.7 Need to know: vaginal birth after caesarean (part 2) -- 5.8 Does pethidine relieve pain? -- 5.9 More than a cuddle: skin-to-skin contact is key -- 5.10 To cut or not to cut? -- 5.11 Smile for your sphincter -- Topics for further reflection -- SECTION 6: Focus On … Holistic Health -- 6.1 Ice massage for the reduction of labor pain -- 6.2 Float like a butterfly… yoga and birth -- 6.3 Giving birth on the beach: hypnosis and psychology -- 6.4 A time to bloom -- 6.5 Ginger: an essential oil for shortening labour? -- 6.6 Rebirthing birth -- Topics for further reflection -- SECTION 7: Life After Birth -- 7.1 The ‘golden orb’ of the postnatal period: a midwife’s role in the process of integrating a renewed self story in a mother following birth -- 7.2 Let's ban water torture -- 7.3 Cochrane made simple: topical umbilical cord care at birth -- 7.4 Don't mention the ‘B’ word! -- 7.5 Maternal breastfeeding positions: have we got it right? (1) -- 7.6 Maternal breastfeeding positions: have we got it right (2) -- 7.7 A randomised controlled trial in the north of England examining the effects of skin-to-skin care on breast feeding -- 7.8 Expression of love -- 7.9 Breastfeeding peer support in Doncaster -- Topics for further reflection -- SECTION 8: Focus on… Working / International Stories -- 8.1 Empowering women in Nagorno-Karabakh -- 8.2 Birth and death in Sierra Leone -- 8.3 Caring for mama and pikinini in Papua New Guinea -- 8.4 On mission with Médecins Sans Frontières -- 8.5 Contraception Education in Brazil -- 8.6 Home Thoughts from Abroad -- Topics for further reflection -- SECTION 9: Stories and Reflection -- 9.1 A midwife reborn -- 9.2 Let's be realistic -- 9.3 The birth of Nuno -- 9.4 Sitting in judgement: a personal reflection -- 9.5 Managing cord prolapse at a home birth -- 9.6 Celebrating the ‘art’ of midwifery -- 9.7 Four labours and a Mars Bar -- 9.8 There is a foot! -- 9.9 An education in training -- 9.10 Midwifing my daughter, receiving my grandson -- 9.11 Spreading some magic