Labor Progress Handbook (eBook)

Penny Simkin is a physical therapist who has specialized in childbirth education since 1968. She serves on the editorial board for Birth: Issues in Perinatal Care and the consultant boards for the International Childbirth Education Association and the Seattle Midwifery School. Ruth Ancheta is a certified DONA doula and approved trainer and has been a certified childbirth educator through ICEA for more than twenty years. She has authored numerous childbirth education materials including the Childbirth Skills Teaching Kit and the VBAC Source Book and Teaching Kit.

Foreword to the second edition xvii

Foreword to the fi rst edition xxi

Acknowledgments xxiii

Chapter 1: Introduction 3

Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA,
ICCE, CD(DONA)

Chapter 2: Dysfunctional Labor: General Considerations
15

Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA,
ICCE, CD(DONA)

Chapter 3: Assessing Progress in Labor 51

Suzy Myers, LM, CPM, MPH, with contributions by Gail Tully, BS,
CPM, CD(DONA), and Lisa Hanson, PhD, CNM, FACNM

Chapter 4: Prolonged Prelabor and Latent First Stage
101

Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA,
ICCE, CD(DONA)

Chapter 5: Prolonged Active Phase of Labor 124

Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA,
ICCE, CD(DONA)

Chapter 6: Prolonged Second Stage of Labor 173

Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA,
ICCE, CD(DONA)

Chapter 7: Optimal Newborn Transition and Third and Fourth
Stage Labor Management 224

Lisa Hanson, PhD, CNM, FACNM, and Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE,
CD(DONA)

Chapter 8: Low-Technology Clinical Interventions to Promote
Labor Progress 242

Lisa Hanson, PhD, CNM, FACNM

Chapter 9: The Labor Progress Toolkit: Part 1. Maternal
Positions and Movements 277

Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA,
ICCE, CD(DONA)

Chapter 10: The Labor Progress Toolkit: Part 2. Comfort
Measures 326

Penny Simkin, BA, PT, CCE, CD(DONA), and Ruth Ancheta, BA,
ICCE, CD(DONA)

Epidural Index 379

Index 381

"Each edition of The Labor Progress Handbook improves on the previous one, and this third edition is an even more indispensable resource for maternity care practitioners, especially within the context of today's overuse of birth technology, cesarean sections, and nonevidence-based management practices. Congratulations, Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta! You've given caregivers a powerful gift to pass on to childbearing women ... again!." (Birth, 1 March 2012)