Midwifery; The Basics; First Edition

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.