Evidence-based care is a well established principle in contemporary healthcare and a worldwide health care movement. However, despite the emphasis on promoting evidence-based or effective care without the unnecessary use of technologies and drugs, intervention rates in childbirth continue to rise rapidly.
This new edition emphasises the importance of translating evidence into skilful practice. It updates the evidence around what works best for normal birth, aspects of which still remain hidden and ignored by some maternity care professionals. Beginning with the decision about where to...
Evidence-based care is a well established principle in contemporary healthcare and a worldwide health care movement. However, despite the emphasis ...
Birth centres are suitable for every woman whose birth is straightforward, which accounts for around 75% of all women. This inspirational guide shows how small scale maternity provision has a profound clinical and organisational advantage over large scale hospital provision, including saving of time and money by reducing intervention rates. It presents the thoughts and feelings of midwives and patients and how both enjoy the humane and compassionate care of the birth centre ethos. The book is invaluable for midwives, obstetricians, doulas, maternity care assistants and maternity service...
Birth centres are suitable for every woman whose birth is straightforward, which accounts for around 75% of all women. This inspirational guide shows ...
The birth of a baby is an intimate, transformative event in the life of any couple. In this extraordinary book, Mark Harris, one of only 90 practising male midwives in the UK, offers dads and birth partners the keys to understanding what happens in pregnancy, in the delivery room, and beyond. Through Mark's distinctive direct, yet un-embarrassedly profound approach readers will learn how to be aware, present, and offer practical support to the birthing mother.
The birth of a baby is an intimate, transformative event in the life of any couple. In this extraordinary book, Mark Harris, one of only 90 practising...
