EBOOK: Normalizing Challenging or Complex Childbirth

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-335-26433-9
Verlag: Open University Press

Buch, Englisch

Complexity 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, it’s also useful for obstetricians and medical students who wish to provide more holistic maternity care and promote optimum childbirth.  With case studies and helpful summaries of points for practice, this is the go-to text for those looking for up-to-date guidance on maximizing normal physiology and also normalizing or humanizing challenging or complex childbirth in midwifery practice. An essential read for today’s midwife.Includes a Foreword by Professor Soo Downe, University of Central Lancashire, UK.
"Normalizing Challenging or Complex Childbirth, edited by Karen Jackson and Helen Wightman, provides an insightful and informative perspective on an array of midwifery issues pertinent to today’s society, including: obesity, VBAC and diabetes.
Karen Jackson’s first chapter 'The concept of normality in the context of challenging or complex childbirth' sets the standard for additional eminent contributing authors; and they follow with an engaging exploration and explanation of the issues which is seamless in terms of application to practice and is supported by real life case studies and key practice points. This is a must read resource for midwives, students and educators."
Janet Israel, Midwifery Lecturer, Cardiff University, UK "Normalizing Challenging or Complex Childbirth provides midwives and students with a refreshingly practical and sensitive approach to caring for women when pregnancy and birth bring additional physiological challenges. New and emerging evidence on important clinical scenarios is presented with great compassion in the context of contemporary midwifery care. This book will be an important resource to midwives wishing to provide individualised sensitive care to women facing the challenge of an unexpected, or complex, pregnancy path.”
Julia Sanders, PhD Consultant Midwife and Reader in Midwifery, Cardiff University, UK

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Karen

Wightman, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Karen Jackson has been a midwife lecturer at Nottingham University, UK, for 22 years and a practising midwife for almost 30 years, and has co-edited Midwifery practice: critical illness, complications and emergencies Case Book (2012).

Helen Wightman has been a practising midwife for over 30 years and currently works both as a labour ward co-ordinator and a midwife lecturer at Nottingham University, UK, and has co-edited The Midwifery Testbook (2012).