The Midwife's Labour and Birth Handbook [Paperback]

Praise for the previous edition:

“…An outstanding handbook. It will be a familiar volume on most midwifery bookshelves, providing an excellent guide to midwifery focused care of both woman and child in the birthing setting.”
- Nursing Times Online

Providing a practical and comprehensive guide to midwifery care, The Midwife’s Labour and Birth Handbook continues to promote best practice and a safe, satisfying birthing experience with a focus on women-centred care.

Covering all aspects of care during labour and birth, from obstetric emergencies to the practicalities of perineal repair (including left-hand suturing), the fourth edition has been fully revised and updated to include:

• Full colour photographs of kneeling extended breech and footling breech births
• New water birth and breech water birth photographs
• Female genital mutilation
• Sepsis
• Group B streptococcus
• Care of the woman with diabetes /Neonatal hypoglycaemia
• Mental health
• Seeding/microbirthing

It also addresses important issues such as:

• Why are the numbers of UK women giving birth in stirrups RISING rather than falling?
• Why are so few preterm babies given bedside resuscitation with the cord intact?
• Would the creation of midwife breech practitioners/specialists enable more women to choose vaginal breech birth and is breech water birth safe?
• What is the legal position for women who choose to free birth – and their birth partners?
• Why are midwives challenging the OASI care bundle?
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