Midwifery: Best Practice Volume 5

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