For over two decades, HEART & HANDS has been a beloved guide for both midwives and parents interested in the benefits of midwifery care. This all-new fourth edition has been revised from start to finish, featuring updated material that emphasizes independent midwifery, physiologic (natural) birth, and the art of nonintervention. Midwifery expert Elizabeth Davis includes valuable hints for turning breech and posterior babies, mediating pain in labor, and supporting newborn physiology. Davis also reveals the keys to ...
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For over two decades, HEART & HANDS has been a beloved guide for both midwives and parents interested in the benefits of midwifery care. This all-new fourth edition has been revised from start to finish, featuring updated material that emphasizes independent midwifery, physiologic (natural) birth, and the art of nonintervention. Midwifery expert Elizabeth Davis includes valuable hints for turning breech and posterior babies, mediating pain in labor, and supporting newborn physiology. Davis also reveals the keys to postpartum recovery, with practical tips on breastfeeding for busy mothers. Comprehensive and compassionate, HEART & HANDS remains a dog-eared classic for parents, midwives, and other birthing helpers.Thoroughly revised and updated fourth edition of the classic text for midwives, also useful for expecting parents, nurses, childbirth educators, doulas, and other labor helpers.Features new diagrams and photographs, updated midwifery forms, and an expanded resource list for parents.Expanded sections on GBS, VBAC, gestational diabetes, and water birth address current controversies.Previous editions have sold more than 150,000 copies. An impressive and deeply caring book . . . reveals a shrewd and compassionate sensitivity to women'--'s needs in pregnancy and childbirth. -Sheila Kitzinger, author of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Birth From the Trade Paperback edition.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 900grams, ISBN: 9781587612213.
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This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 850grams, ISBN: 9781587612213.
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This book will be a welcome tool to any midwife or doula, or even to the very interested and engaged pregnant person. It has incredible detail and breadth about all of the stages of pregnancy and birth, and yet remains readable and accessible. Each chapter has very detailed illustrations, demonstrating techniques. There are well-written side bars for breakdowns of particular skills, ideas for parents, and explanations of particular aspects of pregnancy and labor.
You'll find a section for the profile of a midwife, prenatal care, problems in pregnancy, assisting at a birth, complications in labor, postpartum care, becoming a midwife, and being a practicing midwife. It is rounded out at the end with a very thorough section of appendices, offering resources and sample records and charts.
The book is written with the midwife/aspiring midwife in mind, and takes the perspective of the person who attending to safeguard the birth. I found the combination of technical information and anecdotal illustration in the writing to be really engaging and educational. I also really appreciated the language use- very friendly towards non-traditional family structures.
I have been reading and re-reading it since acquiring it a few months ago. It is so packed with information that I have needed to read some sections multiple times to digest it all, and yet it also helps me to see how much more there is to learn!
Overall, I think this book is a great addition to any birth lover's library. It isn't as comprehensive as Varney's Midwifery or books by Anne Frye, but it is a solid introduction to the craft and won't break your back or or your bank.
