Supporting Women to Give Birth at Home

A Practical Guide for Midwives
Herausgeber: Steen, Mary

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Describes and discusses the main challenges and issues that midwives encounter when preparing for and attending a home birth. This practical guide introduces the history of birth and the various birth choices a woman has. It also discusses preparation for a homebirth. It covers attending a homebirth.

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This practical text describes and discusses the main challenges and issues that midwives and maternity services encounter when preparing for and attending a home birth.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780415560290
• ISBN-10: 0415560292
• Artikelnr.: 33379773

Autorenporträt

Mary Steen is Professor of Midwifery at the Faculty of Health and Social Care at the University of Chester, UK. She has practiced as a midwife for 23 years and worked in a community setting since 1994, attending numerous homebirths. She has recently helped to develop a successful community-based health and well-being programme intended to increase the numbers of active births and homebirths.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface 1. History of Homebirth 2. Choosing Homebirth 3. Homebirth
Guidelines 4. Supporting Homebirth 5. Caring for Women during a Homebirth
6. Abnormal Labour and Emergencies 7. Homebirth Pain Management Options 8.
Homebirth Case Studies