Jackson, Karen
Normalizing Challenging orComplex Childbirth
- ISBN 13:
- 9780335264322
- author:
- Jackson, Karen
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Open University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 240
- Dimensions:
- 22.8 x 15.1 x 1.4 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Medicine Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Normalizing Challenging or Complex Childbirth offers expert guidance and specialist knowledge on normalizing and humanizing complicated or challenging pregnancies, labours and birth. This comprehensive text covers a range of practice issues from multiple births to breech presentations, gestational diabetes to VBAC.
Written for midwifery students and those already in practice, as well as obstetricians and medical students who wish to provide more holistic maternity care, this book provides up-to-date guidance on maximizing normal physiology and normalizing or humanizing challenging or complex childbirth in midwifery practice. It includes a Foreword by Professor Soo Downe.
With case studies and helpful summaries of points for practice, this text is an essential read for today's midwife looking to provide more informed and compassionate care to women with complex pregnancies and labours.