1. Introduction. 2. A brief overview of Chinese medicine for women's health. 3. What happens before, during and after birth: an integrative perspective. 4. Yin birth, Yang birth: understanding dysfunctional labor from a Chinese medical perspective. 5. A toolkit of strategies for intervening. 6. Additional considerations and approaches for commonly occurring labour dysfunction and complications (with Sarah Budd). 7. Advice on pulling the 'toolkit' together into a cohesive practice strategy, with case examples. 8. Advice on how the fetal heart rate/contraction monitor can be diagnostically interpreted as the 'pulse' of the labor (and also basics on its use for safety). 9. Postpartum and post C-section care. 10. Glossaries of unfamiliar Chinese and Western terms.
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As a midwife and acupuncturist that introduced Acupuncture to a busy UK obstetric unit in the 1980s, this fantastic book makes me want to go back and attend births all over again! I wish I had known some of the techniques that Dr Citkovitz shares here. Covering all angles, and nicely illustrated by case histories, it will be invaluable to all who attend births, introducing new information about what this system of medicine has to offer. I fully endorse this inspiring publication.