Product Description: Labor and Delivery Care: A Practical Guide supports and reinforces the acquisition of the practical obstetric skills needed for aiding a successful birth. Beginning with the most important element of successful labor care, communicating with the patient, the authors guide you through normal delivery routines and examination techniques...read more

Product Description: An illustrated hands-on guide to the dynamics of the female pelvis for expectant mothers, midwives, and birth professionals • Provides fully illustrated exercises to help the expectant mother prepare her pelvis for birth and gain confidence in her body’s innate ability to birth her child • Details the anatomical intricacies of the female pelvis and its capabilities for expansion and return to its original form • Presents movements and positions to ease discomfort, enhance the productivity of contractions, aid the internal expansion of the pelvis, and prevent and treat issues that may arise such as “failure to progress” The dynamic power of the female pelvis is the key to a gentle birth...read more

Product Description: Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital births in America to be cesarean sections—and renew confidence in a woman's natural ability to birth...read more

Product Description: Practical and reassuring, Babycenter Pregnancy explains what happens at every stage of pregnancy-from the latest medical advances to parents' real-life experiences-using the "best of" material from babycenter.com, including parents' tips and comments, expert views, statistics and polls...read more

Aimed at various personnel working on the labour ward. This book gives instruction on the best application of technical procedures employed in the labour ward whilst promoting the ethos that the labouring mother and the unborn child must be the prime focus of attention.

Evidence-based care is a well established principle in contemporary healthcare and a world wide health care movement. However, despite the emphasis on promoting evidence-based or effective care without the unnecessary use of technologies and drugs, intervention rates in childbirth are rising rapidly. Evidence-based Care for Normal Labour and Birth brings to light much of the evidence around what works best for normal birth which has, until now, remained largely hidden and ignored by maternity care professionals. Beginning with the decision about where to have a baby, through all the phases of labour to the immediate post-birth period, it systematically details research and other evidence sources that endorse a low intervention approach. The book: highlights where the evidence is compelling discusses its application where women question its relevance to them and where the practitioner's expertise leads them to challenge it gives background and context before discussing the research to date includes questions for reflection and practice recommendations generated from the evidence. Using research data, Evidence-based Care for Normal Labour and Birth critiques institutionalised, scientifically managed birth and endorses a more humane midwifery-led model. Packed with up-to-date and relevant information, this controversial book will help all students, practising midwives and doulas keep abreast of the evidence surrounding normal birth and ensure their practice takes full advantage of it.

A comprehensive handbook for expectant mothers offers clear, objective advice and information on everything from selecting a doctor or midwife, to the realities of assisted or cesarian births, to relaxation and pain-coping techniques that can be used during labor. Original. 30,000 first printing.

A freelance journalist and four-time marathon competitor shares her secrets for staying fit and healthy during and after pregnancy, covering back pain, positions for delivery, nipple conditioning, and much, much more. Original.

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Product Description: Written with a team of midwifery specialists, this book provides effective techniques for alleviating pain during childbirth. Key topics include the physiology of pain in childbirth, antenatal and postnatal pain, pharmacological and non-pharmacological views on pain relief, psychology of pain relief, fetal and neonatal pain, and sociological and historical perspectives...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Medical care is often not limited to a single treatment, and when considering a patient several options for care may be available to the physician. This book is a practical guide to the 'art of' clinical management of the patient in labour, considered by Dr Rosen to be a cornerstone of the job of the obstetrician and often neglected as the technology associated with labour has increased...read more

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Product Description: A great deal is now known about the effects of care given and received during pregnancy and childbirth. In order to best understand and utilize this information, pregnant women and all those involved in caring for them need an accessible, comprehensive reference to explain the methods and importance of proper care...read more

Product Description: The second edition of A guide to effective care in pregnancy and childbirth will be invaluable to anyone involved in the care of pregnant women, and to expectant parents. The book is about the effects of care given and received during pregnancy and childbirth...read more

An advice guide for prospective fathers who have chosen to participate in the birth process helps readers learn how to become supportive and trusted partners throughout the process with relaxation, labor pain, and postpartum techniques. Reprint.

Product Description: Not only was Special Women the first book on the topic of the intrapartum doula, it is full of comprehensive information about providing continuous physical, emotional and informational support to the mother-to-be and her partner...read more

Product Description: Written especially for medical students, this book provides the information students need to know about labour and delivery. It outlines the physiological, psychological and physical factors that influence the progress of labour. The tools available for monitoring the progress of a labouring patient are described and demonstrated, and practical advice and suggestions for managing problems that may arise is given...read more