Midwifery: the basics

"Midwifery: The Basics provides an engaging and authentic insight into the midwife's world. It explores the role of the midwife as a clinician and professional, showing how midwives can support women both to achieve a healthy full-term pregnancy and a smooth transition to motherhood. This...

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Main Author: Baston, Helen 1962- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2021
Series:The basics
Basics (Routledge (Firm))
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:"Midwifery: The Basics provides an engaging and authentic insight into the midwife's world. It explores the role of the midwife as a clinician and professional, showing how midwives can support women both to achieve a healthy full-term pregnancy and a smooth transition to motherhood. This book begins with a discussion of the context of birth and parenthood, placing midwifery in its broader social context. Topics covered include: The midwife as an autonomous professional; Becoming a midwife; Pre-conceptual and antenatal care; Intrapartum care; Postnatal care; and The specialist midwife. Midwifery: The Basics uses the voices of mothers, fathers and midwives to illustrate the complex world of becoming, being and supporting parents. This is an essential introduction for students at undergraduate and A-Level who are approaching midwifery for the first time"--
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 05, 2020)
Physical Description:1 online resource (xii, 258 pages) illustrations
ISBN:9780429052750
0429052758
9780429625725
0429625723
9780429627361
042962736X
9780429629006
0429629001

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