

Midwifery Essentials: Postnatal - Elsevier eBook on VitalSource, 1st Edition
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'Postnatal' is the fourth title in the Midwifery Essentials series and explores contemporary postnatal care for women and their families, exploring the role of the midwife as a member of the multi-professional team. This book thoroughly prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred postnatal care for mothers and their babies.
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- The postnatal examination of the woman, and the baby check
- Care of the baby in the immediate postnatal period
- The features of the normal neonate
- The newborn clinical examination
- Hospital postnatal care and caesarean section
- The role of the community midwife and emotional wellbeing
- Postnatal fertility control
- Issues involved in supporting the woman to feed her baby.
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Postnatal Volume:
1. Introduction
2. Postnatal care: principles and practice
3. Care of the baby at birth
4. Examination of the newborn
5. Hospital postnatal care
6. Post-operative care following a caesarean birth
7. Postnatal care in the community
8. Emotional wellbeing following birth
9. Fertility control advice after birth
10. Supporting the mother to feed her baby -
Helen Baston, BA(Hons), MMedSci, PhD, PGDipEd, ADM, RN, RM, Consultant Midwife Public Health, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Researcher / Lecturer, University of Sheffield; Honorary Lecturer Sheffield Hallam University, UK. and Jenny Hall, EdD MSc RN RM ADM PGDip(HE) SFHEA FRCM, Independent Midwifery Educator and Researcher, Bristol, UK