Midwifery - E-Book

- Australian and New Zealand health care and maternity systems - The Australian and New Zealand context - Models of health - Midwifery and maternity in a global context - Risk, fear and safety - Ways of looking at evidence and measurement - The place of birth - Challenges to women's health - Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women - Midwives and Maori women: Advancing our relationships - Options for women around fertility and reproduction - Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand - Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand - Ethical frameworks for practice - Sustaining midwifery practice - Theoretical frameworks for midwifery practice - Working in partnership - Working in collaboration - Promoting physiological birth - The physiology of conception and pregnancy - Nutrition and physical activity foundation for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation - Screening and assessment - Working with women in pregnancy - Physiological changes during labour - Supporting women in labour and birth - Working with pain in labour - Using water for labour and birth - Perineal care and repair - Physiological changes during the postnatal period - Supporting women becoming mothers - Transitions to motherhood - Supporting the newborn infant - Supporting the breastfeeding mother - Completing the midwife-woman partnership - Pharmacology and prescribing - Contraception - Challenges in pregnancy - Disturbances in the rhythm of labour - Interventions in pregnancy labour and birth - Maternal life-threatening emergencies - Complications in the post-natal period for the mother - The compromised neonate - Grief and loss during childbearing