Essential midwifery practice.
By: edited by Denis Walsh, Soo Downe.
Contributors: Walsh, Denis, 1955-; Downe, Soo.
Publisher: Blackwell
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K; Ames, Iowa
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781405176989
Subjects: Midwifery; Delivery, Obstetric -- methods; Labor, Obstetric; Midwifery -- methods
Other titles: Intrapartum care
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Evolution of intrapartum care / Denis Walsh; title: Debates about knowledge and intrapartum care / Soo Downe; title: Childbirth education and intrapartum care / Mary Nolan; title: Birth environment and intrapartum care / Denis Walsh; title: Labour rhythms, not stages and progress / Denis Walsh; title: Labour and the baby / Judith Mercer & Debra Erikson-Owens; title: Midwifery skills of being, not doing / Holly Powell-Kennedy, Tricia Anderson & Nicky Leap; title: Skills for working with pain / Rosemary Mander; title: Complementary therapies & labour / Denise Tiran; title: Midwifery skills for normalising unusual labours / Verena Schmidt and Soo Downe; title: Psychology and labour experience : birth as peak experience / Gill Thompson; title: Sexuality and labour & birth / Sarah Buckley; title: Spirituality and labour care / Jenny Hall; title: How midwives should organise to provide intrapartum care / Chris McCourt; title: Feminism and intrapartum care / Mary Stewart; title: Toward salutogenic birth in the 21st century / Soo Downe.