1st Edition
Contemporary Issues in Perinatal Education Knowledge into Practice
Providing essential knowledge and understanding that midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses and lay birth and early parenting educators need to deliver effective and evidence-based education to all new parents and families, this book explores key issues in perinatal education.
Bringing together research and thinking around preconception and birth, infant sleep, nutrition, attachment and development, it also includes chapters on topics of growing importance, such as preconception education, LGBTQ+ parent education, the role of parenting advice, parent education across different cultures and teaching antenatal classes online. Each chapter includes a key knowledge update and pointers for practice.
This wide-ranging and practical text is an important read for all those supporting new parents from pregnancy through the first 1000 days, especially those delivering antenatal care and birth and early parenting education.
Part I: Preconception education
Chapter 1: Preconception health, education and care: The earliest intervention
Jonathan Sher
Chapter 2: Improving health and well-being before, between and beyond pregnancy
Sarah Verbiest and Erin K. McClain
Chapter 3: Would you like to become pregnant in the next year? The key question® initiative in the United States
Michele Stranger Hunter
Chapter 4: Breastfeeding promotion in early learning settings
Elizabeth Smith, Sarah Edwards, and Amy Bryson
Part II: Building Parents’ Relationships with their Infants from Pregnancy Onwards
Chapter 5- Stressed pre- birth? How the foetus is affected by a mother’s state of mind
Graham Music
Chapter 6: Commentary: Motherhood in conditions of war- Biological and psychological routs to infant development
Raija-Leena Punamäki
Chapter 7: Attachment: A play of closeness and distance
Robin Balbernie
Chapter 8: Just chatting with a baby is more than you might think
Robin Balbernie
Chapter 9: The musical key to babies’ cognitive and social development
Graham F. Welch
Chapter 10: "Daddy’s Funny!" Father’s playfulness with young children
Jennifer St George and Richard Fletcher
Chapter 11: Creative play spaces: Finding the space for play
Frances Brett
Chapter 12: Role of the parent-child attachment relationship
Shauna L. Tominey, Svea G. Olsen, Megan M. McClelland and Katherine E. Smith
Chapter 13: The transition to parenthood and early child development in families with LGBTQ+ parents
Rachel H. Farr and Samantha L. Tornello
Part III: Preparation for Labour and Birth
Chapter 14: Commentary: A Mindful approach to childbirth education and preparation for childbirth
Lorna Davies
Chapter 15: Preparing women for homebirth
Cathy Green
Chapter 16: The power to transform: Freeing women’s instinctual potential for giving birth through body-centred preparation in pregnancy
Janet Balaskas
Part IV: Education and Support for Parents of Twins
Chapter 17: Sleep patterns of twins
Helen Ball
Chapter 18: Breastfeeding twins
Kathryn Stagg
Chapter 19: Helping parents understand and navigate the twin bond
Joan A. Friedman
Part V: What parents need to know about sleeping, weaning, and the media
Chapter 20: Infant sleep and feeding in evolutionary perspective
Alanna E.F. Rudzik
Chapter 21: Sleep in early childhood: The role of bedtime routines
Angela D. Staples and Leah LaLonde
Chapter 22: Food fussiness in early childhood: Assessment and management
Gillian Harris
Chapter 23: Weaning a baby onto a vegan diet
Amanda Benham
Chapter 24: A Relationship-based framework for early childhood media use
Jenny S. Radesky and Katherine Rosenblum
Part VI: The ‘How’ of education and supporting parents
Chapter 25- Commentary: Tug of War- Could polarised parenting advice cause harm?
Kathleen Hodkinson, Tara Acevedo, and Katrin Kristjansdottir
Chapter 26: Exploring the application (or use) of educational theory in perinatal parenting through four theorists
Shona Gore and Kay Cram
Chapter 27: Group intervention to treat fear of childbirth with psycho-education and relaxation exercises
Riikka Airo, Terhi Saisto, and Hanna Rouhe
Chapter 28: Commentary- parenting programmes are not culturally relevant to many communities
Hanan Hussein, Kathryn Thomson and Kathleen Roche-Nagi
Chapter 29: Approachable parenting: The five pillars of parenting pregnancy and beyond programme for Muslim families
Kathleen Roche-Nagi and Yasmin Shikara
Chapter 30: Heteronormative obstacles in regular antenatal education and the benefits of LGBTQ certified options: Experiences among prospective LGBTQ parents in Sweden
Anna Malmquist and Sofia Klittmark
Chapter 31: A psychodynamic approach to working with pregnant teenagers and young parents
Hen Otley
Chapter 32: Fathers prenatal relationships with ‘their’ baby and ‘her’ pregnancy- implications for antenatal education
Richard Fletcher, Chris May and Jennifer St George
Chapter 33: Tips for facilitating antenatal education online
Helen Knight and Isabelle Karimov,
Biography
Mary Nolan is well known for her work in perinatal education. She has published numerous articles and several books in the field, the most recent being Parent Education for the Critical 1000 Days. She has been Professor of Perinatal Education at the University of Worcester for 15 years and Honorary Professor at Nottingham University for 10 years. Prior to her University appointment, she worked as a birth and early parenting educator and trainer across the UK and in France, Belgium, Germany, Australia and New Zealand. In 2013, she was one of the founders of the International Journal of Birth and Parent Education and its first Editor-in-Chief.
Shona Gore has facilitated antenatal and perinatal courses in the UK for those in the transition to parenthood during a 30-year career in childbirth education, relationship and birth education in schools (including for children with special learning needs) and workshops in adult education for NHS and Early Years’ Practitioners. In association with the Universities of Bedfordshire and Worcester, she has devised and taught courses to train NCT practitioners from entrance to degree level. In 2013, with Mary Nolan (Editor-in-Chief), she founded the International Journal of Birth and Parent Education.
