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Midwifery Essentials: Infant feeding

Volume 5

  • 1st Edition, Volume 5 - April 13, 2017
  • Latest edition
  • Authors: Joyce Marshall, Helen Baston, Jennifer Hall
  • Language: English

New title in the popular Midwifery Essentials series originally published in conjunction with The Practising Midwife journal. The series covers core topics in midwifery educat… Read more

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Description

New title in the popular Midwifery Essentials series originally published in conjunction with The Practising Midwife journal. The series covers core topics in midwifery education in an engaging and friendly format using a helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach which encourages readers to explore topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. effective communication, team working and health promotion. Helpful ‘scenarios’ throughout each volume encourage debate and reflection, core elements of midwifery education.

Key features

  • Provides a useful, friendly source of information
  • Strong focus on contemporary women-centred care
  • Designed to stimulate debate and reflection upon current practice, local policies and procedures
  • Scenarios enable practitioners to understand the context of maternity care and explore their role in safe and effective service provision
  • Helpful ‘jigsaw’ approach enables readers to explore specific topics from a variety of perspectives e.g. consent, safety and health promotion
  • Explains the professional and legal issues surrounding clinical procedures
  • Chapters designed to be read as a ‘standalone’ or in succession
  • Emphasises the crucial role of effective communication

Readership

Midwives – whether qualified or in training

Table of contents

1. Introduction

2. Relationship building between mother and baby

3. Anatomy and physiology

4. Skin to skin contact after birth

5. Skills to support infant feeding

6. The social context of infant feeding

7. Birthing practices and breastfeeding

8. Managing baby related feeding challenges

9. Formula feeding

10. Managing common maternal related breastfeeding challenges

11. Breastfeeding premature babies

12. Breastfeeding mothers their family, community and the wider societal context

Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Volume: 5
  • Published: September 6, 2017
  • Language: English

About the authors

JM

Joyce Marshall

Affiliations and expertise
Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, UK

HB

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