Midwifery

BOOK 1
SECTION 1: CONTEXT
Chapter 1: The Australian and New Zealand context
Chapter 2: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand midwifery and maternity services
Chapter 3: Human rights in childbirth
Chapter 4: Fear and risk
Chapter 5: Midwifery as primary health
Chapter 6: Birth place and birth space
Chapter 7: Ways of looking at evidence and measurement
SECTION 2: THE WOMAN
Chapter 8: Social and environmental determinations of women’s health
Chapter 9: Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women
Chapter 10: Midwives and Maori women: advancing our relationships
Chapter 11: Options for women around fertility and reproduction
SECTION 3: THE MIDWIFE
Chapter 12: Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 13: Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand
Chapter 14: Supporting midwives, supporting each other
Chapter 15: Midwifery partnership
Chapter 16: Working in collaboration
Chapter 17: Promoting physiological birth

BOOK 2
SECTION 1: AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE
Chapter 18: Overview of reproductive physiology
Chapter 19: Nutrition and physical activity foundations for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation
Chapter 20: Screening and assessment
Chapter 21: Working with women in pregnancy
Chapter 22: Applied physiology for labour and birth
Chapter 23: Supporting women in labour and birth
Chapter 24: Working with pain in labour
Chapter 25: Using water for labour and birth
Chapter 26: Perineal care and repair
Chapter 27: Overview of physiological changes during the postnatal period
Chapter 28: Supporting women becoming mothers
Chapter 29: Supporting the newborn
Chapter 30: Supporting the breastfeeding mother
Chapter 31: Pharmacology and prescribing
Chapter 32: Contraception
SECTION 2: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE
Chapter 33: Women’s psycho-social health and wellbeing
Chapter 34: Variations in normal
Chapter 35: Challenges in pregnancy
Chapter 36: Disturbances in the rhythm of labour
Chapter 37: Interventions in pregnancy, labour and birth
Chapter 38: Life-threatening emergencies
Chapter 39: Complications in the post-natal period for the mother
Chapter 40: The compromised neonate
Chapter 41: Grief and loss during childbearing – the crying times