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Essential midwifery practice intrapartum care / [electronic resource] : Intrapartum care [edited by] Denis Walsh, Soo Downe. - Chichester, West Sussex, U.K. ; Ames, Iowa : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010. - xiii, 306 p. ; 25 cm. - Essential midwifery practice .

Includes bibliographical references and index

Evolution of current systems of intrapartum care / Denis Walsh -- Debates about knowledge and intrapartum care / Soo Downe -- Childbirth education : politics, equality and revelance / Mary Nolan -- Birth environment / Denis Walsh -- Labour rhythms / Denis Walsh -- Evidence for neonatal transition and the first hour of life / Judith Mercer and Debra Erikson-Owens -- Midwifery presence : philosophy, science and art / Holly Powell Kennedy, Tricia Anderson and Nicky Leap -- Skills for working with (the woman in) pain / Rosemary Mander -- Complementary therapies in labour : a woman-centred approach / Denise Tiran -- Midwifery skills for normalising unusual labours / Verena Schmidt and Soo Downe -- Psychology and labour experience : birth as peak experience / Gill Thompson -- Sexuality in labour and birth : an intimate perspective / Sarah Buckley -- Spirituality and labour care / Jenny Hall -- How midwives should organise to provide intrapartum care / Chris McCourt -- Feminism and intrapartum care / Mary Stewart -- Toward salutogenic birth in the 21st century / Soo Downe.

ISBN: 1405176989 (pbk. : alk. paper) 9781405176989 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2009024487

Nat. Bib. No.: GBA9A2212 bnb

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Midwifery.
Delivery, Obstetric--methods.
Labor, Obstetric.
Midwifery--methods.

LC Class. No.: RG950 / .E87 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 618.2

National Library of Medicine Call No.: 2010 C-713 WQ 415 / E78 2010