Contemporary Issues in Perinatal Education: Knowledge Into Practice

ISBN-13: 9781032122519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 312 str.

Mary Nolan; Shona Gore

Opis

Providing essential knowledge and understanding that midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses and lay birth and early parenting educators need to deliver effective and evidence-based education to all new parents and families, this book explores key issues in perinatal education.

Spis treści

Part I: Preconception education  1.Preconception health, education and care: The earliest intervention.  2.Improving health and well-being before, between and beyond pregnancy.  3.Would you like to become pregnant in the next year? The key question® initiative in the United States.  4.Breastfeeding promotion in early learning settings.  Part II: Building Parents’ Relationships with their Infants from Pregnancy Onwards.  5.Stressed pre- birth? How the foetus is affected by a mother’s state of mind.  6.Commentary: Motherhood in conditions of war- Biological and psychological routs to infant development.  7.Attachment: A play of closeness and distance.  8.Just chatting with a baby is more than you might think.  9.The musical key to babies’ cognitive and social development.  10."Daddy’s Funny!" Father’s playfulness with young children.  11.Creative play spaces: Finding the space for play.  12.Role of the parent-child attachment relationship.  13.The transition to parenthood and early child development in families with LGBTQ+ parents.  Part III: Preparation for Labour and Birth.  14.Commentary: A Mindful approach to childbirth education and preparation for childbirth.  15.Preparing women for homebirth.  16.The power to transform: Freeing women’s instinctual potential for giving birth through body-centred preparation in pregnancy.  Part IV: Education and Support for Parents of Twins.  17.Sleep patterns of twins.  18.Breastfeeding twins.  19Helping parents understand and navigate the twin bond.  Part V: What parents need to know about sleeping, weaning, and the media.  20.Infant sleep and feeding in evolutionary perspective.  21.Sleep in early childhood: The role of bedtime routines.  22.Food fussiness in early childhood: Assessment and management.  23.Weaning a baby onto a vegan diet.  24.A Relationship-based framework for early childhood media use.  Part VI: The ‘How’ of education and supporting parents  25.Commentary: Tug of War- Could polarised parenting advice cause harm?  26.Exploring the application (or use) of educational theory in perinatal parenting through four theorists.  27.Group intervention to treat fear of childbirth with psycho-education and relaxation exercises.  28.Commentary- parenting programmes are not culturally relevant to many communities.  29.Approachable parenting: The five pillars of parenting pregnancy and beyond programme for Muslim families.  30.Heteronormative obstacles in regular antenatal education and the benefits of LGBTQ certified options: Experiences among prospective LGBTQ parents in Sweden.  31.A psychodynamic approach to working with pregnant teenagers and young parents.  32.Fathers prenatal relationships with ‘their’ baby and ‘her’ pregnancy- implications for antenatal education.  33.Tips for facilitating antenatal education online.