Helen Baston Livres

Based on Midwifery basics articles published in The practising midwife journal.

The book offers an engaging exploration of the midwife's role, highlighting their clinical and professional responsibilities. It emphasizes how midwives support women in achieving healthy pregnancies and navigating the transition to motherhood, providing valuable insights into their essential contributions to maternal care.

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"Midwifery: The Basics provides an engaging and authentic insight into the midwife's world. It explores the role of the midwife as a clinician and professional, showing how midwives can support women both to achieve a healthy full-term pregnancy and a smooth transition to motherhood. This book begins with a discussion of the context of birth and parenthood, placing midwifery in its broader social context. Topics covered include: The midwife as an autonomous professional; Becoming a midwife; Pre-conceptual and antenatal care; Intrapartum care; Postnatal care; and The specialist midwife. Midwifery: The Basics uses the voices of mothers, fathers and midwives to illustrate the complex world of becoming, being and supporting parents. This is an essential introduction for students at undergraduate and A-Level who are approaching midwifery for the first time"--

In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent wafuku (Japanese clothing, including kimono) for modern life. The book explores these shifts, highlighting developments in the Kyoto fashion industry. Through case studies of designers, artisans, and retailers, it provides a comprehensive picture of the reasons behind the production and consumption of these rejuvenated fashion goods

Based on Midwifery basics articles published in The practising midwife journal.

Based on Midwifery basics articles published in The practising midwife journal.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Models of antenatal care: the options available Chapter 3 The booking history Chapter 4 Health in pregnancy Chapter 5 Monitoring maternal physical wellbeing Chapter 6 Monitoring women's emotional wellbeing in the antenatal period Chapter 7 Blood tests in pregnancy Chapter 8 Antenatal screening for fetal abnormality Chapter 9 Monitoring fetal wellbeing during routine antenatal care Chapter 10 Antenatal care - preparing for the birth

New addition to the popular Midwifery Essentials series designed to help readers understand and master a range of core issues safely and with confidence! Written by leading midwifery academics, each book in the series provides a user-friendly source of information which has been fully updated throughout to reflect the latest evidence-base for current practice. Now with an improved design to make learning as easy as possible, each paperback in the series focuses on the importance of communication and contemporary women- centred care and presents helpful 'scenarios' to encourage debate and reflection. The Midwifery Essentials series is ideal for all midwives - whether qualified or in training - and is also helpful to nurses and HCAs working in the maternity environment.