Midwifery: The Basics

ISBN-13: 9780367146191 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 258 str.

Helen Baston

Opis

Midwifery: The Basics provides an engaging and authentic insight into the midwife’s world. It explores the role of the midwife as a clinician and professional, showing how midwives can support women both to achieve a healthy full-term pregnancy and a smooth transition to motherhood.

Spis treści

1. The context of birth 2. The roles of the midwife 3. Midwifery: An evolutionary tale 4. Becoming a midwife 5. Pre-conceptual and antenatal care 6. Labour and birth care 7. Postnatal care 8. Midwife as specialist

O autorze

Helen Baston is Consultant Midwife in Public Health, Baby Friendly Guardian and Professional Midwifery Advocate at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK.