Waterbirth: An Attitude to Care

by Dianne Garland S R N R M A D M P G C E A M Sc (Author)

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  Paperback
  2000

  $3.25

  This text examines the use of hydrotherapy in line with current evidence-based practice, and explores the practical issues of setting up a water birthing facility both at home and in a hospital environment. The issues of maternal and newborn physiology are explained and the practical apsects of care during and after use of a birthing pool are discussed. A new chapter on midwifery education explains how to comply with the requirements for PREP.

• Used

  Paperback
  1995

  $3.25

  This text is aimed at health care professionals and parents who wish to make use of birthing pools during labour. It includes points from the first International Waterbirth Conference held in April 1995. Subjects include midwife accountability, international perspectives on waterbirth, setting up a waterbirth facility, maternal and fetal perspectives, current research issues, complications and problems, professional and parental accounts of waterbirth, early pioneers of waterbirth and antenatal and postnatal use of hydrotherapy. The book also contains useful adddresses.