cover image - Midwifery Essentials: Infant feeding, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780702071010
Copyright: 2017
Publication Date: 06-19-2017
Page Count: 182
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $15.99

Midwifery Essentials: Infant feeding, 1st Edition

by Joyce Marshall, RN, RM, BSc (Hons), MPH, PhD, PGCAP, FHEA, Helen Baston, BA(Hons), MMedSci, PhD, PGDipEd, ADM, RN, RM and Jennifer Hall, EdD MSc RN RM ADM PGDip(HE) SFHEA FRCM

Paperback

cover image - Midwifery Essentials: Infant feeding, 1st Edition
ISBN: 9780702071010
Copyright: 2017
Publication Date: 06-19-2017
Page Count: 182
Imprint: Elsevier
List Price: $15.99
In Stock
Important note
Please note
This item has low stock levels and may be back-ordered. We'll let you know if it is back-ordered, and you will not be charged until the item ships.
Technical Support
Contact your Elsevier Sales Rep to learn more about adopting this product
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.
    • 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

  • 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

  • Joyce Marshall, RN, RM, BSc (Hons), MPH, PhD, PGCAP, FHEA, Senior Lecturer, Department of Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, Queensgate, Huddersfield, UK, 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 Jennifer Hall, EdD MSc RN RM ADM PGDip(HE) SFHEA FRCM, Independent Midwifery Educator and Researcher, Bristol, UK
  • No accessibility information is available for this product.
In Stock
Important note
Please note
This item has low stock levels and may be back-ordered. We'll let you know if it is back-ordered, and you will not be charged until the item ships.
Technical Support
Contact your Elsevier Sales Rep to learn more about adopting this product