Midwifery Essentials: Antenatal
Volume 2
- 1st Edition, Volume 2 - September 3, 2009
- Latest edition
- Authors: Helen Baston, Jennifer Hall
- Language: English
'Antenatal' is the second title in the Midwifery Essentials series and looks at the provision of safe and effective antenatal care, exploring the role of the midwife in the co… Read more
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'Antenatal' is the second title in the Midwifery Essentials series and looks at the provision of safe and effective antenatal care, exploring the role of the midwife in the context of professional and national guidance. This book prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred maternity care.
- Models of care and the range of professionals involved
- The booking history and involving the woman in decisions
- Optimising and monitoring maternal health throughout pregnancy
- Blood tests and antenatal screening for fetal abnormality
- Monitoring the growing fetus
- Facilitating women to prepare for birth.
student and practising midwives; labour ward personnel; nurses undertaking midwifery training
Antenatal Volume:
1. Introduction
2. Models of antenatal care: the options available
3. The booking history
4. Health in pregnancy
5. Monitoring maternal physical well being
6. Monitoring women’s emotional wellbeing in the antenatal period
7. Blood tests in pregnancy
8. Antenatal screening for fetal abnormality
9. Monitoring fetal wellbeing during routine antenatal care
10. Antenatal care – preparing for the birth
1. Introduction
2. Models of antenatal care: the options available
3. The booking history
4. Health in pregnancy
5. Monitoring maternal physical well being
6. Monitoring women’s emotional wellbeing in the antenatal period
7. Blood tests in pregnancy
8. Antenatal screening for fetal abnormality
9. Monitoring fetal wellbeing during routine antenatal care
10. Antenatal care – preparing for the birth
- Edition: 1
- Latest edition
- Volume: 2
- Published: September 3, 2009
- Language: English
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Helen Baston
Affiliations and expertise
Consultant Midwife Public Health, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Researcher / Lecturer, University of Sheffield; Honorary Lecturer Sheffield Hallam University, UK.JH
Jennifer Hall
EdD RM ADM MSc (Reproduction & Health) PGDip(HE)
Affiliations and expertise
Independent Midwifery Educator and Researcher, Bristol, UK