Midwifery best practice 2

Midwifery: Best Practice 2 comprises a succinct review of key issues within the profession in a user-friendly and convenient format, providing a practical reference source for midwives at all levels. Using a broad selection of contributions that establish best practice and current thinking in midwifery, this compilation offers midwives articles and papers that contain the best ideas, information and evidence to inform midwifery practice. In an age where information is increasingly abundant and sometimes overwhelming, it is difficult to keep up-to-date with current thinking. Midwifery: best practice provides a solution to this information overload by presenting essential information in an accessible manner. Edited by a well-known and respected lecturer in midwifery and published in association with The Practising Midwife and Midwifery, two of the leading British midwifery journals, Midwifery: Best Practice 2 contains a wide range of articles, research and stories covering topics from pregnancy to postnatal experiences. This exciting new text - -Challenges existing ways of thinking -Raises totally new ideas for consideration -Stimulates learning, debate and reflection The sections begin with an introduction and end with a page of questions that can be used for group discussions, PREP or just personal reflection on the issues raised. This second volume in this successful series concentrates on issues surrounding pregnancy and birth, including domestic violence and risk: very topical and sensitive issues within the profession and of interest to every midwife. An essential purchase for every midwife interested in best midwifery practice.

Focus On: Normal Birth 1.1 Is there a future for normal birth?-Soo Downe: 1.2 What is normal childbirth? The midwife practioner's view- Rosalind Weston: 1.3 What is normal childbirth? The educational perspective - Sandy Kirkman: 1.4 What is normal childbirth? A consumer perspective - Mary L Nolan: 1.5 A curriculum for normality - Tricia Anderson. 2 Pregnancy 2.1 Individualised due dates. -Gemma Purrett: 2.2 Pregnancy tests. A vital topic for prenatal education - Andrea Robertson: 2.3 Are we failing women? Advice for nausea and vomiting in pregnancy - Rachel Allen: 2.4 Hyperemesis gravidarum. Not just morning sickness! - Johanne Jakeway: 2.5 Diagnosis and management of obstetric cholestasis. - Emily McDermott: 2.6 Obstetric cholestasis. A mother's experience - Jenny Chambers: 2.7 Is folic acid the best thing - Judith Ockenden: 2.8 Massage in Pregnancy - Mario-Paul Cassar: 2.9 Pregnancy - Reflection. 3 Focus On: Domestic Violence 3.1 Domestic violence in pregnancy - Sally Price & Kathleen Baird: 3.2 Identifying a cry for help. A case study describing a proactive approach towards tackling domestic violence - Sue Cripps: 3.3 Addressing domestic violence through maternity services: policy and practice - Sally Marchant, Leslie L. Davidson, Jo Garcia and Jacqueline E. Parsons: 3.4 Women's responses to screening for domestic violence in a health-care setting - Joan Webster, Susan M. Stratigos and Kerry M.Grimes. 4 Being With Women 4.1 Ways and means. of giving information - Hannah Hulme Hunter: 4.2 Client-centred midwifery. The role of conscious decision making in empowering practitioner and client - Helen Davies: 4.3 Midwifery in China - Christine Grabowska: 4.4 Muslim birth practices. - Aziz Sheikh: AR Gatrad: 4.5 `Giving midwifery care': student midwives' views of their working role - Cecily M.Begley: 4.6 Maternal mental illness. Mind ? the gap - Shona Hamilton: 4.7 Being With Women - Reflection. 5 Labour and Birth 5.1 The hormonal dance of labour. Can we teach women how to get 'in the mood' - for labour? - Judith Ockenden: 5.2 Birth plans. A relic of the past or still a useful tool? - Mary Nolan: 5.3 Vaginal examinations in labour. - Mandaza / Nolan: 5.4 Electronic fetal monitoring. Inherited clinical guidelines - Beverley A Lawrence Beech: 5.5 Eating and drinking in labour -Joanna Berry: 5.6 The third stage maze. Which practice pathway for optimum outcomes?- Lois Wattis: 5.7 Water labour and birth - Judith Ockenden: 5.8 The hour of birth: comparisons of circadian pattern between women cared for by midwives and obstetricians -Marion H.B.Heres, Maria Pel, Marion Borkent-Polet, Pieter E.Treffers and Majid Mirmiran: 5.9 Labour and Birth - Reflection. 6 Focus On: Elements of Risk 6.1 When birth goes wrong - Rosalind Weston: 6.2 Home birth - a paediatrician's story - Frances Wedgwood: 6.3 Media representation of woman's health - Julia Barrell: 6.4 Coccydynia: a woman's tail - Isobel Ryder& Jo Alexander. 7 The Postnatal Experience 7.1 All through the Night' Co-sleeping - risky business or survival mechanism? - Lorna Davies: 7.2 Postnatal care in the month after birth - Debbie Singh & Mary Newburn: 7.3 Is breast always best? - Nicky Bean: 7.4 Sock it to me. Using a breast model to enable women to establish lactation - Alison Blenkinsop: 7.5 Skin to skin contact. Benefits and difficulties - Helen Wallace & David Marshall: 7.6 The instruction in pelvic floor exercises provided to women during pregnancy or following delivery - Linda Mason, Sheila Glenn, Irene Walton and Carol Hughes: 7.7 The Postnatal Experience - Reflection. 8 Focus On: Parenting 8.1 Putting parents at the heart of classes - Mary Nolan: 8.2 Our children's safety. - Jenny Fraser: 8.3 Motherhood. Unrealistic expectations? - Jacqui Gibson: 8.4 Nine women, nine months, nine lives. Delivering psychology into our preparation for parenthood - Sandra Wheatley. 9 Stories and Reflection 9.1 Telling the Tales and Stirring the Tea - Nessa McHugh: 9.2 Midwifery and research. Comparable skills in listening and the use of language - Susan Battersby & Ruth Deery: 9.3 For midwifery care, choose a midwife - Virginia Howes: 9.4 Transition: reflections on becoming a student midwife - Anna Fielder: 9.5 Having a baby is like running a marathon because. - Lorna Davies: 9.6 Carly is sixteen. Carly had to contend with learning difficulties, domestic violence and impending motherhood - Jenny Fraser: 9.7 Hospital Infection. The scourge of childbirth - Prunella Briance: 9.8 Grandma's Gynecology (1): 9.9 Grandma's Gynecology (2): 9.10 Grandma's Gynecology (3) - All Pam Connellan: 9.11 Power to the woman - Virginia Howes: 9.12 A word about language - Jane Bowler. Index

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