Midwifery : Best Practice Volume 4

This is Volume 4 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) but 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 4 offers a range of wholly new topic areas within the focus on sections, including communities of women, birth centres and exploring diversity.

IntroductionAcknowledgementsSECTION 1 Women and Midwives1.1 The impact of the establishment of a midwife managed unit on women in a rural setting in England Kim Watts, Diane M Fraser and Fehmidah Munir1.2 Culture, Control and the Birth EnvironmentMary Newburn1.3 Drawing the Line: caesarean sections on demandNatasha Carr1.4 Searching for autonomyKatherine Pollard1.5 The risky business of normal birthJenny FraserSECTION 2 Focus on Diversity (1)2.1 Building bridges: involving Pakistani womenYana Richens2.2 What's it like to work in Siberia? Rachel Simpkins2.3 What's it like to work in Ontario?Elizabeth Fulton-Breathat2.4 Excerpts from a CNM's journal: Kosovo, winter 2000Barbara Hammes2.5 Midwifery in Northern BelizeDiane B Boyer, Carrie Klima, Judith Jennrich and Jeanne E. RaislerSECTION 3 Pregnancy. Exploring Pregnancy 3.1 Risk and risk assessment in pregnancy - do we scare because we care?Katja Stahl and Vanora Hundley3.2 Reduced frequency prenatal visits in midwifery practice: attitudes and useDeborah S Walker, Stephanie Day, Corinne Diroff, Heather Lirette, Laura McCully, Candace Mooney-Hescott and Victoria Vest3.3 Australian women's stories of their baby-feeding decisions in pregnancyAthena Sheehan, Virginia Schmied and Margaret Cooke3.4 The Big Pregnancy Brain Mush MythSara Wickham3.5 Body image and pregnancyLorna DaviesSECTION 4 Focus On Building Communities of Women4.1 Being used? Motive for user involvementBeverley A. Lawrence Beech4.2 Powerful Sharing? Creating Effective User GroupsJulie Wray4.3 An evaluation of a support group for breast-feeding women in Salisbury, UKJo Alexander, Tricia Anderson, Mandy grant, Jill Sanghera and Dawn Jackson4.4 The Birth Resource Centre: A Community of WomenJane Crewe, Andrea St. Clair, Lyssa Clayton, Fiona Armstrong, Lee Seekings-Norman, Nadine Edwards and Sara WickhamSECTION 5 Labour and Birth5.1 Current best evidence: A review of the literature on umbilical cord clampingJudith S. Mercer5.2 Perineal trauma: prevention and treatmentRona McCandlish5.3 A disappearing art: vaginal breech birthBecky Reed5.4 Home Breech BirthEsther Culpin (Commentary by Michel Odent)5.5 To drip or not to drip? A literature reviewMyra Parsons5.6 Fetal blood samplingPenny Champion5.7 Don't take it lying down!Gillian Fletcher5.8 Going Backwards: the concept of 'pasmo'Ina May GaskinSECTION 6 Focus On Birth Centres6.1 A 'cycle of empowerment': the enabling culture of birth centresMavis Kirkham6.2 'Home from home': the key to successMorwenna Davies, Shirley McDonald and Denise Austin6.3 A compromise for change?Sara Wickham6.4 Birth Centres in Wiltshire (1)Vicky Tinsley6.5 Birth Centres in Wiltshire (2)Vicky TinsleySECTION 7 Life After Birth7.1 Postnatal Care: is it an afterthought?Julie Wray7.2 A light in the fog: Caring for women with postpartum depressionHolly Powell Kennedy, Cheryl Tatano Beck and Jeanne Watson Driscoll7.3 Hands Off! The Breastfeeding Best Start Project (1)Sally Inch, Susan Law and Louise Wallace7.4 Hands Off! The Breastfeeding Best Start Project (2)Sally Inch, Susan Law and Louise Wallace7.5 'White blood': dose benefits of human milkSuzanne Colson7.6 Mother and Baby a Good StartSarah J. BuckleySECTION 8 Focus on Diversity (2)8.1 Adolescent motherhood in an inner city who are in the UK: Experiences and needs of a group of adolescent mothersMaria Barrell8.2 Why choose motherhood? The older teenage client's perspectiveClaire Beckinsale8.3 Beating disability, embracing motherhoodSimone BakerPregnancy, labour and mothering among women who have suffered traumaMindy LevySECTION 9 Stories and Reflection9.1 Creating a scene: the work of Progress TheatreKirsten Baker9.2 The Numbers GameNicki Pusey9.3 Kicking out the oboesSuzanne Colson9.4 You can take a horse to waterAnon9.5 Pushing the boundaries: independence in the NHSLynn Walcott9.6 Pushed to the limitRosie Kacary9.7 My birth storyAndrea Wolahan with Virginia Howes9.8 A wise birth revisitedPenny Armstrong9.9 Compare and contrast three births in one dayAnne Adamson9.10 The Un-Peel ReportGill Walton9.11 Goodbye, and thanksJane BowlerIndex