Choices in Pregnancy and Childbirth - A Guide to Options for Health Professionals, Midwives, Holistic Practitioners, and Parents (Paperback)

This is a comprehensive and empowering guide to facilitating a positive pregnancy and birth experience, and ensuring lasting emotional and physical health for mother and baby. Countering increasingly medicalized attitudes towards pregnancy and birth among many healthcare providers, this research-based book discusses the benefits of a more natural approach. It reveals the often undisclosed effects on a child's long-term development of accepted medical practices, such as induction, C-section, surgical interventions and pain-relief medications. It offers advice on how these practices can be avoided, for example with techniques to encourage optimal fetal positioning, by optimising the birth environment, and through drug-free pain management methods. Ultimately, it enables practitioners to support parents in informed, confident decision-making by giving a balanced account of the complex array of options available throughout pregnancy and birth. With invaluable contributions from midwives, doulas, mothers, and doctors, and tried-and-tested advice on sleep, exercise, diet and therapies, this will a very useful reference for anyone working with women and babies. The information will also be relevant to prospective and new parents.

General

Imprint:	Singing Dragon
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2015
Authors:	John Wilks
Dimensions:	228 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-1-84819-219-5
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine > General Books > Medicine > Clinical & internal medicine > Gynaecology & obstetrics > General Books > Medicine > Nursing & ancillary services > Midwifery > General Promotions
LSN:	1-84819-219-3
Barcode:	9781848192195

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