270 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
270 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
270 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Midwifery: The Basics provides an engaging and authentic insight into the midwife’s world. It explores the role of the midwife as a clinician and professional, showing how midwives can support women both to achieve a healthy full-term pregnancy and a smooth transition to motherhood.
This book begins with a discussion of the context of birth and parenthood, placing midwifery in its broader... Read more
1. The context of birth
2. The roles of the midwife
3. Midwifery: An evolutionary tale
4. Becoming a midwife
5. Pre-conceptual and antenatal care
6. Labour and birth care
7. Postnatal care
8. Midwife as specialist
Biography
Helen Baston is Consultant Midwife in Public Health, Baby Friendly Guardian and Professional Midwifery Advocate at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, UK.
