The technologies that underpin antenatal investigations are changing rapidly and it is essential that midwives and all health professionals involved in antenatal care are informed about current r…
This book is dedicated to all midwives, past, present and futura, who with love, have given and continue to give their expert care to women bringing their babies into the world.
Liu's Labour Ward Manual has been the standard work for all personal on the labour ward for over two decides. It gives instuction on the best application of technical procedures employed in the la…
The first chapter of this book focuses on how you prepare yourself for pregnancy. Preconceptual preparation should began at least three mounths before you start to try to conceive and is about revi…
Designed as a quick, practical A-to-Z reference, this book provides hundreds of drug-free remedies using nutrition, herbs, exercise, acupressure, and massage. It describes-and fully illustrates-num…
Midwives are continually searching for alternative ways to help women have healthy, fulfilling experiences of pregnancy and childbirth. Inceasing numbers of both midwives and pregnant womwn are dra…
The groundbreaking book succesfully does just that-and more-by actively reflecting on a broad but pertinent range of key midwifery issues. Written by a team og highly regarded experts-most of whom …
Physiology in childbearing continues to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive and clear account of anatomy and physiology and related biosciences at all stages of pregnancy and childbirth.
The third edition of this book marks a time of change and expantion in the profession. This change and expantion is reflected in the title and in the size of the book. The change in the title from …
Mayes' Midwifery, 13th Edition continues to be the most comprehensive midwifery textbook available. Focusing on modern clinical realities, with a clear emphasis on the normal, this popular text gu…
The third edition of this popular text examines the full range of challenges in genera obstetrics, medical complications of pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis and fetal disease, and management of labour…
The study of nutrition can be an interesting and rewarding subject for nursing students, not only for clien education, bujt also for their own health. This book is designed to show nursing student…
The eigth edition of this popular and highly respected text continues to recognize the increasing importance of nutrition in achieving and maintaining health and fitness and as a component of appro…
This powerful, new, full color book prepares you to provide realistic, holistic nursing care with women from menarche to menopause. while empowering and encouraging each women's ability for desicio…
And it is here, after months of writing-after hours where the words would not cease, where they would flow from my heart tomy hand and then spill from the ink in the pen-that they stop.
Comprehensive and readable, this text provides the student with guidance through application of the nursing process and thorough coverage of nursing diagnosis.
This book is designed to help family physicians make desicions about practicing obstetrics. A 1987 review of third-year residents discovered that many chose not to practice obstetrics because they …
Generations of nurses were introduced to maternity nursing with this classic text. Designed to provide the in-depth, basic knowledge nescessary to deliver competent, culturally sensitive, family-ce…
This book is not intended as a ' how to do it' manual, but rather provides a serious study of the values and dangers of aromatherapy in relation to pregnancy and childbearing
Aimed directly at midwives, Anatomy and Physiology for midwives second edition provides a thorough grounding in the structure and functions of the human body associated with childbearing, birth and…
The third edition of this book marks a time of change and expantion in the profession. This change and expantion is reflected in the title and in the size of the book. The change in the title from …
Mayes' Midwifery, 13th Edition continues to be the most comprehensive midwifery textbook available. Focusing on modern clinical realities, with a clear emphasis on the normal, this popular text gu…
The fresh ideas brought to this new edition enhance an already well-estabilished textbook, providing an effective balance between citing research and authoritative opinion, and providing an indicat…
The New Midwifery offers a critical perspective on women's reproductive health and midwifery issues. This incisive collection of essays the examines the impact of professionalization, legalization …
This is an essentially practical book to help midwives to provide the community of care that women have been asking for. The book addresses the difficulties of achieving change and gives practical …
Midwives need special guidance to equip them for the demands of giving maternity care in the community. This imaginative book, based of the authors' extensive experience of community practice, is t…
A fantastic book. Cassidy has written a darkly wiity guide through the birthing hut (or barn or hospital ward, depending on the time period). and she lucidly sorts the fact and the fads, from the e…
This new book considers every aspect of supervision within the moder n framework, including * Dilemmas of management versus supervision * Bullying and the culture of blame * Disciplinary versus …
When hospital-trained midwife Penny Armstrong takes on a job delivering the babies of the Amish, she encounters a way of life deeply rooted in the earth. As she renews her resfect for nature she di…
This handbook offers sound, up to date, practical information and advice about the complete spectrum of approaches to contraception and reproductive sexual health. It gives detailed explanation of …
This comprehensive, practical guide to all aspects of resuscitation of the newboprn is based on international guidelines for effective treatment. The information provides a detailed, step bay step …
Accupuncture in midwifery is an excellent introductory guide to the practice of acupuncture within midwifery, making it an essential purchase for midwives at all levels. acupuncturists will also fi…
This book specificaly addresses the uniqueness and complexity of lesrning and assessing in clinical setings, and how such learning can be managed, facilitated and assessed. This isa "how to doit' …
Acting as acompanion to women in labour is a spesial privilege and an honour, and a role that midwives regularly enjoy. There is an art to being a supportive presence during birth, to creating a sa…
These are the questions at the hearth of childbirth in the global village which highlights the role that globalisation plays in changing childbirth practices and its implications for midwifery prac…
This book is evidencve based, fully illustrated and easy to follow for all health professionals involved in the physical aspects of antenatal education-midwives, health visitors, physiotherapists, …
Normal childbirth: evidence and debate provides a unique perspective on a area which has been largely neglegcted in the past. This perspective is rooted in a challenge to current ways of thinking a…
This is the first book to explore public health from the perspective of the midwife and examines the midwife's role in maintaining and improving health from a more global and population-based focus…
Nursing care of women is a comprehensive account of the total health needs of women. Much of the content relates to gynaecology but many other aspects of women's health have been included to provid…
The enthusiasm whish greeted publication of the first three volumes in this midwifery practice series highlighted the need felt by midwives for material which would help them to underpin their prac…
This first book in the maternity practice series encourages readers ti continue to be reflective about their own practice and to chalenge traditional practice in midwifery.
Myles Textbook for Midwives provides an indispensable learning and referfence resource for midwives at all stages of their careers. Written by a team of practising and teaching midwives, this inter…
The issue of whether women should have the choise of eating and drinking while in labour is a contentious one. Many specialists including midwives, obstetricians, anaesthetists, physiologists, spec…
All pregnant women feel some degree of apprehension before the birth of their baby. Knowing what is likely to hapopen and how to cope with the various stages of labour will help to ease any anxieties.
This book is essentially a guide to a generalk sociological perspective and to social policies which are significant both for midwives and fpr women and their families.
Breast is best is today's prevaling mantra. However women-particulary first-time mother - frequently feel unsupported when they come to feed their baby.
Reflection help us understand the impact of our actions and improve our professioinal skill. This practical guide shows nurses and midwives how to develop a reflective approach to their work and ho…
Sensitive midwifery describes alternative delivery positions, how to monitor a women in active labour and how to deliver a baby at home. It also gives practical tips on helping parent through diff…
This conprehensive guide provides an understanding of the impact of the social circumstances on women giving birth, their babies, and families in the 21st Century.
Midwifery: best practice 2 compires a succinct review for key issues within the profession in auser-friendly and comvenient format, providing a practical reference source for midwives at all levels.