Description
Book SynopsisComplexity in childbirth is growing significantly due to several factors that include increasing maternal age, rising levels of obesity and related diabetes. Women labelled as moderate or high risk are often excluded from useful strategies that low risk women enjoy, such as using water immersion for labour, aromatherapy or mobilisation. They then can immediately follow a pathway of increased surveillance and interventions that may or may not be clinically indicated.
This text offers expert guidance and specialist knowledge on the evidence for normalizing and humanizing complicated or challenging pregnancies, labours and birth. It covers a range of practice issues from multiple births to breech presentations, gestational diabetes to VBAC. Comprehensively written for midwifery students and those already in practice, itâs also useful for obstetricians and medical students who wish to provide more holistic maternity care and promote optimum childbirth.
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Table of Contents
1. The concept of normality in the context of challenging or complex childbirth
2. Positive approaches to health for childbearing women
3. The risk discourse
4. The supervisory perspective
5. Fear of childbirth: The impact of tocophobia on normal birth
6. Latent phase of labour
7. Obesity
8. Breech presentation
9. Multiple pregnancy
10.Vaginal birth after Caesarean section
11. When labour slows or stops
12. Maternal diabetes and gestational diabetes
