Main description:

A new addition to the popular Midwifery Essentials series which continues to help readers understand and master a range of core issues safely and with confidence!

Written by leading midwifery academics, each book in the series provides a user-friendly source of information which has been fully updated throughout to reflect the latest evidence-base for current practice. Now with an improved design to make learning as easy as possible, each paperback in the series focuses on the importance of communication and contemporary women-centred care and presents helpful 'scenarios' to encourage debate and reflection.

The Midwifery Essentials series is ideal for all midwives - whether qualified or in training - and is also helpful to nurses and HCAs working in the maternity environment.

Provides a useful, friendly source of information
Strong focus on contemporary women-centred care
Designed to stimulate debate and reflection upon current practice, local policies and procedures
Scenarios enable practitioners to understand the context of maternity care and explore their role in safe and effective service provision
Helpful 'jigsaw' approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. consent, safety and health promotion
Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding clinical procedures
Chapters designed to be read as a 'standalone' or in succession
Emphasises the crucial role of effective communication

Contents:

1 - Introduction

2 - Public health: principles and midwifery practice

3 - Becoming a mother and support for parenting

4 - Birth and health

5 - Childbearing women who are seeking asylum or homeless

6 - Substance misuse in pregnancy

7 - Age and maternity

8 - Infant feeding: a public health perspective

9 - Smoking in pregnancy

10 - Weight matters in pregnancy

11 - Emotional wellbeing and public health