Choices in Pregnancy and Childbirth
eBook - ePub

Choices in Pregnancy and Childbirth

A Guide to Options for Health Professionals, Midwives, Holistic Practitioners, and Parents

  1. 368 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Choices in Pregnancy and Childbirth

A Guide to Options for Health Professionals, Midwives, Holistic Practitioners, and Parents

About this book

This is a comprehensive and empowering guide to facilitating a positive pregnancy and birth experience, and ensuring lasting emotional and physical health for mother and baby.

Countering increasingly medicalized attitudes towards pregnancy and birth among many healthcare providers, this research-based book discusses the benefits of a more natural approach. It reveals the often undisclosed effects on a child's long-term development of accepted medical practices, such as induction, C-section, surgical interventions and pain-relief medications. It offers advice on how these practices can be avoided, for example with techniques to encourage optimal fetal positioning, by optimising the birth environment, and through drug-free pain management methods. Ultimately, it enables practitioners to support parents in informed, confident decision-making by giving a balanced account of the complex array of options available throughout pregnancy and birth.

With invaluable contributions from midwives, doulas, mothers, and doctors, and tried-and-tested advice on sleep, exercise, diet and therapies, this will a very useful reference for anyone working with women and babies. The information will also be relevant to prospective and new parents.

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Yes, you can access Choices in Pregnancy and Childbirth by John Wilks in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Nursing. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Singing Dragon
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781848192195
eBook ISBN
9780857011671
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Nursing

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. By the Same Author
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Contents
  9. Terminology
  10. Disclaimer
  11. Introduction
  12. 1. What Choices do Women Really Have?
  13. 2. Birth From The Baby’S Perspective
  14. 3. How do We View Pregnancy, Birth, and Babies?
  15. 4. Awareness and Consciousness in Pregnancy
  16. 5. Psychological and Emotional Health in Pregnancy
  17. 6. Strategies to Help Mood and Positivity
  18. 7. Managing Sleep in Pregnancy
  19. 8. Tests in Pregnancy
  20. 9. Antidepressants and Other Medication During Pregnancy
  21. 10. Environmental Influences in Pregnancy
  22. 11. Optimal Fetal Positioning
  23. 12. The Secret Life of The Sphincter
  24. 13. Home or Hospital?
  25. 14. Natural Strategies for Pain Relief in Childbirth
  26. 15. Waterbirths
  27. 16. Spiritual Childbirth and Spiritual Midwifery
  28. 17. Physical Imprinting at Birth
  29. 18. Emotional and Psychological Impacts of Birth
  30. 19. Pain Relief During Labor and Childbirth
  31. 20. Induction
  32. 21. Caesareans
  33. 22. Interventions at Birth
  34. 23. The Microbiome
  35. 24. Babies after Birth
  36. 25. The Role of Midwives
  37. 26. Therapies for Mothers and Babies after Birth
  38. 27. A Note on Crying and Sleep
  39. 28. Barriers to Change
  40. Conclusions
  41. Appendix 1: Nutrition in Pre-Conception and Pregnancy
  42. Appendix 2: Resources, Further Reading and Contacts
  43. References and Notes
  44. Biographies
  45. Subject Index
  46. Author Index
  47. Also available