Postnatal Care

by Byrom, Sheena; Edwards, Grace; Bick, Debra

• ISBN13: 9781405170918
• ISBN10: 1405170913
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-12-14
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Essential Midwifery Practice: Postnatal Care summarises the important developments in postnatal care in relation to recent policy and guidance and relates the recommendations to midwifery practice in a clear and easily understood manner. With contributions from experts in the field, this practical text provides a resource for postnatal service provision in both hospital and community, offering a framework to assist midwives understand the background to care.With a focus on a woman and family centred philosophy, and community engagement models of care, this text explores issues including clinical care within the postnatal period, transition into parenthood, empowering parents, morbidity and postnatal care, the healthy newborn, and engaging vulnerable women and families.Essential Midwifery Practice: Postnatal Care forms part of a series of books that succinctly address the needs of practising midwives on a number of contemporary issues. Includes up to date information on recent policy, including NICE guidelines Written by respected experts in the field Focused on women and family centered care For both hospital and community midwives

Author Biography

Sheena Byrom is a consultant midwife at East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust and the University of Central Lancashire.

Grace Edwards is a?consultant midwife at Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation Trust.

Debra Bick is Professor of Evidence Based Midwifery Practice, the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King's College London.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Notes on the Contributors	p. xiii
The History of Postnatal Care, National and International Perspectives	p. 1
Contemporary Postnatal Care in the Twenty-first Century	p. 27
Women's and Midwives' Views of Early Postnatal Care	p. 49
Transition into Parenthood: Ideology and Reality	p. 71
Empowering Mothers: Strengthening the Future	p. 95
Morbidity during the Postnatal Period: Impact on Women and Society	p. 113
Baby-Friendly Hospitals: What Can They Achieve?	p. 139
Engaging Vulnerable Women and Families: Postnatal Care	p. 165
Working with Partners: Forming the Future	p. 189
Nurture and Nature: The Healthy Newborn	p. 211
Sexual Health, Postnatal Care and Parenthood	p. 255
Index	p. 255
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