Home Birth - Elsevier E-Book on VitalSource, 1st Edition

by Anna-Marie Madeley, Registered Midwife, BSc (Hons) Midwifery, MSc Evidence Based Healthcare (Oxon), PGCertTHE, FHEA,

Elsevier eBook on VitalSource

ISBN: 9780323935616

Publication Date: 09-29-2023

Imprint: Elsevier

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Key Features
- Covers the whole scope of home birth practice, for each member the multidisciplinary team
- Written by leading experts from diverse backgrounds including midwives, paramedics, obstetricians and neonatal nurses from clinical practice, academia and education
- Presents balanced and unbiased contemporary evidence supporting birth at home
- Discusses effective care planning from developing a homebirth services, practical resources and skills, equipment planning and geographical considerations
- Covers important topics within midwifery including the rise of ‘freebirthing’, multidisciplinary team working and the care of women with complex biopsychosocial needs or from underrepresented communities
- Clearly identifies roles and responsibilities of the multidisciplinary team
- Suitable for midwifery students embarking on a home birth placement
Contents

1. Homebirth – the evidence
2. Homebirth in undergraduate, postgraduate, and clinical education
3. Planning for homebirth
4. Home alone – choosing freebirth
5. First stage of labour at home
6. Second and third stages of labour at home
7. Considerations for labour and birth in water at home
8. Physiological breech birth at home
9. Postnatal care at home
10. Neonatal considerations for homebirth
11. Managing emergencies at home
12. Paramedic transfer and multidisciplinary working with ambulance services
13. Homebirth in the presence of complex needs
14. Reflective vignette
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Anna-Marie Madeley, Registered Midwife, BSc (Hons) Midwifery, MSc Evidence Based Healthcare (Oxon), PGCertTHE, FHEA,
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