This evidence-based guide for professionals covers essential information to help support parents breastfeeding past the first six months, including starting solids alongside breastfeeding, nursing manners, and common problems and challenges. The recommendation of breastfeeding beyond six months is well-established, but many birth professionals ......
Written by a world-renowned expert in perinatal pharmacology, this essential reference contains current, complete, and evidence-based information on the transmission of maternal drugs into human milk. This 2021 edition has been extensively revised, and now includes 49 completely new and 356 updated medications.
Postnatal PTSD can have devastating effects on parents. Gain knowledge about postnatal PTSD and surrounding topics such its effects on bonding, relationships, ethnic minorities and maternity professionals. This book is essential reading for health providers who want to inform themselves about support, treatment and prevention.
Emergency Birth in the Community is the essential resource for all healthcare professionals who come into contact with emergency deliveries in the community setting, including midwives and GPs. The book has been specifically adapted from the official JRCALC Guidelines, which covers the established standard for prehospital care.
A Guide to Weaning for Professionals, Supporters and Parents
This comprehensive and accessible guide provides birth workers and lactation professionals with the skills to help families navigate the emotional and physical challenges of weaning. Using a compassionate, person-centred approach that prioritises the needs of both mother and child, this pioneering resource details the emotional impact of ......
Bringing together the stories and experiences of LGBT+ parents as well as professionals in the field, this guide explains what healthcare and birth workers can do to improve care for their clients. It broadens the ability to understand those who birth and parent beyond the heteronormative and cisgender binary. Covering topics such as LGBT+ and ......
This pioneering guide provides birth professionals, pregnant people, and advocates with comprehensive insight into navigating conception, pregnancy, birth, and the perinatal period whilst fat. Drawing on the author's decade of experience as well as evidence-based research and case studies from people sharing their own perspectives and stories, ......
Supporting Women with Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (hEDS) Through
Stretched to the Limits is the first book to detail the effects and implications of hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos syndrome for pregnancy, birth and postnatally. It will empower midwives, doulas and their clients to advocate for the most informed and highest quality of care on that journey to parenthood.
This guide explores the subject of postdates pregnancy and analyses the induction of labour and many women's desire to avoid having labour induced. Balancing the discussion of midwifery care and the obstetric management of women who are overdue, it covers a range of complementary therapies and natural remedies and includes a debate on their ......
A Reference Guide for Maternity and Healthcare Professionals
A ready reference guide for midwives, GPs, doulas and other healthcare professionals involved in conventional maternity care to enable them to advise and inform women on different natural remedies. With the emphasis on safety, a thorough list of contraindicated remedies is also included.
Squaring the Circle is a cutting-edge guide to the state of the art of normal childbirth, with contributions from world-renowned experts in their fields.
This comprehensive guide helps all birthing and healthcare professionals vastly improve their care and knowledge of autistic pregnant people. It takes a distinctly intersectional and accessible approach to a topic often overlooked and includes management approaches and tools for birth professionals, autistic pregnant people, and their families.
This is the first text to address fetal and neonatal pharmacology for the APN and nursing student. With a strong focus on interprofessional collaboration, it delivers core pharmacologic concepts and practice guidelines in a clear, systematic manner for ease of use. This resource reflects real-word scenarios as it discusses perinatal and ......
Practical support for parents to be, and health and social care practiti
A unique and practical book on managing autistic pregnancy, childbirth and the post-natal period for autistic parents and for the health and social care practitioners who may support them, enabling caregivers to provide reasonably adjusted care with the best outcomes for autistic parents and their babies.
Birth In Focus offers the reader a chance to see birth made real. Water birth, breech birth, twin birth, Caesarean birth - all are shown in photo stories, with accompanying text written both by the woman and her midwife, and sometimes also the partner or a child who was present. Clear images of the birth process provide an excellent educational ......
What is the future of the human capacity to give birth? What is the future of underused physiological functions? Should we expect an evolution of Homo sapiens in relation to the way babies are born? Can fast-developing scientific disciplines induce a new awareness?
In this wide-ranging, interdisciplinary look at the future of birth, renowned ......
For more than a decade, The Art and Practice of Home Visiting has been a go‐to guide for effective, culturally sensitive home visits with young children and families. Now reframed as a textbook for a new generation of home visitors, this second edition includes student‐friendly features.
