Midwifery: Best Practice Volume 5

SECTION 1 Women and midwives 1.1Women, midwives, partnership and power 1.2Conflicting ideologies as a source of emotion work in midwifery 1.3Advice on advice 1.4Developing a maternity unit visiting policy 1.5Handle with care! 1.6Protecting the public - from me 1.7The landscape of caring for women: a narrative study of midwifery practice 1.8Midwives: praise and beyond Topics for further reflection SECTION 2 Focus on.The Birthing Environment 2.1How women choose where to give birth 2.2Home birth: a social process, not a medical crisis 2.3Home birth: safe as houses? 2.4The influence of maternity units' intrapartum intervention rates and midwives' risk perception for women suitable for midwifery-led care 2.5Birth centres: a success story 2.6Defining and developing the birth centre 2.7Improving the birthing environment (parts 1 and 2) Topics for further reflection SECTION 3 Pregnancy 3.1Tell me a story 3.2Getting parent education right 3.3Fears and feelings in second-time pregnancy 3.4Women's needs from antenatal care in three European countries 3.5Women's experiences of unexpected ultrasound findings 3.6TTP and me 3.7A guide to less common antenatal blood tests 3.8The assisted conception pregnancy 3.9Asking the question: antenatal domestic violence 3.10Preventing infant allergies Topics for further reflection SECTION 4 Focus On . Women, Midwives and Risk 4.1Blood transfusion: the hidden dangers 4.2Coagulation disorders (1) Deep vein thrombosis: breaking the silence 4.3Coagulation disorders (2) Pulmonary embolism 4.4An early warning system for pre-eclampsia Topics for further reflection SECTION 5 Labour and Birth 5.1Births that taught me important lessons 5.2Unlocking the potential for normality 5.3Lambs to the slaughter 5.4Water: what are we afraid of? 5.5Routine cord blood gas analysis: an overreaction? 5.6Need to know: vaginal birth after caesarean (part 1) 5.7Need to know: vaginal birth after caesarean (part 2) 5.8Does pethidine relieve pain? 5.9More than a cuddle: skin-to-skin contact is key 5.10To cut or not to cut? 5.11Smile for your sphincter Topics for further reflection SECTION 6 Focus On . Holistic Health 6.1Ice massage for the reduction of labor pain 6.2Float like a butterfly. yoga and birth 6.3Giving birth on the beach: hypnosis and psychology 6.4A time to bloom 6.5Ginger: an essential oil for shortening labour? 6.6Rebirthing birth Topics for further reflection SECTION 7 Life After Birth 7.1The 'golden orb' of the postnatal period: a midwife's role in the process of integrating a renewed self story in a mother following birth 7.2Let's ban water torture 7.3Cochrane made simple: topical umbilical cord care at birth 7.4Don't mention the 'B' word! 7.5Maternal breastfeeding positions: have we got it right? (1) 7.6Maternal breastfeeding positions: have we got it right (2) 7.7A randomised controlled trial in the north of England examining the effects of skin-to-skin care on breast feeding 7.8Expression of love 7.9Breastfeeding peer support in Doncaster Topics for further reflection SECTION 8 Focus on. Working / International Stories 8.1Empowering women in Nagorno-Karabakh 8.2Birth and death in Sierra Leone 8.3Caring for mama and pikinini in Papua New Guinea 8.4On mission with Médecins Sans Frontières 8.5Contraception Education in Brazil 8.6Home Thoughts from Abroad Topics for further reflection SECTION 9 Stories and Reflection 9.1A midwife reborn 9.2Let's be realistic 9.3The birth of Nuno 9.4Sitting in judgement: a personal reflection 9.5Managing cord prolapse at a home birth 9.6Celebrating the 'art' of midwifery 9.7Four labours and a Mars Bar 9.8There is a foot! 9.9An education in training 9.10Midwifing my daughter, receiving my grandson 9.11Spreading some magic