EBOOK: Normalizing Challenging or Complex Childbirth
- ISBN-10
- 0335264336
- ISBN-13
- 9780335264339
- Series
- EBOOK
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 240
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-02-16
- Publisher
- McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
- Authors
- Karen Jackson, Helen Wightman
Description
Complexity in childbirth is growing significantly due to several factors that include increasing maternal age, rising levels of obesity and related diabetes. Women labelled as moderate or high risk are often excluded from useful strategies that low risk women enjoy, such as using water immersion for labour, aromatherapy or mobilisation. They then can immediately follow a pathway of increased surveillance and interventions that may or may not be clinically indicated. This text offers expert guidance and specialist knowledge on the evidence for normalizing and humanizing complicated or challenging pregnancies, labours and birth. It covers a range of practice issues from multiple births to breech presentations, gestational diabetes to VBAC. Comprehensively written for midwifery students and those already in practice, it’s also useful for obstetricians and medical students who wish to provide more holistic maternity care and promote optimum childbirth. With case studies and helpful summaries of points for practice, this is the go-to text for those looking for up-to-date guidance on maximizing normal physiology and also normalizing or humanizing challenging or complex childbirth in midwifery practice. An essential read for today’s midwife. Includes a Foreword by Professor Soo Downe, University of Central Lancashire, UK. "Normalizing Challenging or Complex Childbirth, edited by Karen Jackson and Helen Wightman, provides an insightful and informative perspective on an array of midwifery issues pertinent to today’s society, including: obesity, VBAC and diabetes. Karen Jackson’s first chapter 'The concept of normality in the context of challenging or complex childbirth' sets the standard for additional eminent contributing authors; and they follow with an engaging exploration and explanation of the issues which is seamless in terms of application to practice and is supported by real life case studies and key practice points. This is a must read resource for midwives, students and educators." Janet Israel, Midwifery Lecturer, Cardiff University, UK "Normalizing Challenging or Complex Childbirth provides midwives and students with a refreshingly practical and sensitive approach to caring for women when pregnancy and birth bring additional physiological challenges. New and emerging evidence on important clinical scenarios is presented with great compassion in the context of contemporary midwifery care. This book will be an important resource to midwives wishing to provide individualised sensitive care to women facing the challenge of an unexpected, or complex, pregnancy path.” Julia Sanders, PhD Consultant Midwife and Reader in Midwifery, Cardiff University, UK
Get the book
Other editions
-
- 2023-12-14
- 292 pages
- Ebook
- McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
-
- 2023-10-11
- 225 pages
- Ebook
- McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Similar books
-
Easy Labor: Every Woman's Guide to Choosing Less Pain and More Joy During Childbirth
By William Camann, Kathryn Alexander“I \vould1ft know how, but I am extremely sympathetic to any woman who wants help [i.e., drugs] dealing With the pain. In no way is it a sign of anything other than significant pain.” T. Bogard, M.D., an obstetric anesthesiologist,Wake ...
-
Brenner and Rector's The Kidney E-Book
By Karl Skorecki, Glenn M. Chertow, Philip A. MarsdenWhite coat hypertension vs. normotension Study name Statistics for each study Hazard ratio and 95% CI Hazard Lower Upper Z P ratio limit limit value value Verdecchia 1994 1.170 0.253 5.402 0.201 0.841 Kario 2001 0.760 0.164 3.529 J0.350 ...
-
It's Hard to Be a Person: Defeating Anxiety, Surviving the World, and Having More Fun
By Brett NewskiI still make fun of my own anxiety and "depresh" as catharsis. I sing about it on tour, talk about it on my podcast, and draw pictures of it here in this book.
-
Roberts and Hedges’ Clinical Procedures in Emergency Medicine and Acute Care E-Book
By James R. RobertsA sufficient number of staples should be placed to provide proper apposition of the edges of the wound along its entire length. (One suggested method is to place a staple in the midpoint of the length of the wound and then bisect either ...
-
EBOOK: Leadership Gender and Culture in Education
By John Collard, Cecilia ReynoldsThe implications for research of applying the notion of a perverse validity are challenging, to be sure. ... the sense of ordering, dividing, and normalizing the inner capabilities and characteristics of the child' (Popkewitz 2000: 22).
-
Sabiston Textbook of Surgery E-Book: The Biological Basis of Modern Surgical Practice
By Courtney M. TownsendAlexander Monro (primus) (1697–1767) was Cheselden's mentee and later established a center of surgical-anatomic teaching in Edinburgh, which was eventually led by his son Alexander (secundus) (1737–1817) and grandson Alexander (tertius) ...
-
Clinical Anesthesia, 7e: Print + Ebook with Multimedia
By Paul Barash, Bruce F. Cullen, Robert K. StoeltingDocument tooth or dental appliance damage, obtain a dental consultation, and observe for signs of foreign body aspiration.73 Sore throat and hoarseness after tracheal intubation occur in 20% to 50% of patients, depending on the degree ...
-
Mosby's Fundamentals of Therapeutic Massage - E-Book
By Sandy FritzThis normalization is accomplished through the following: • External manual stimulation of the nervous, circulatory, ... The time- and labor-intensive therapy required for massage make it difficult for physicians, physical therapists, ...
-
Family Medicine Obstetrics E-Book
By Stephen D. RatcliffePeterson HB, Xia Z, Hughes JM: Risk of pregnancy after tubal sterilization: findings from the U.S. Collaborative Review of sterilization, Am J Obstet Gynecol 1161-1168, 1996.
-
Myles' Textbook for Midwives E-Book
By Jayne E. Marshall, Maureen D. RaynorUp-to-date guidance on professional regulation, midwifery supervision, legal and ethical issues, risk management and clinical governance Recognises that midwives increasingly care for women with complex health needs, in a multicultural ...