Normalizing challenging or complex childbirth / edited by Karen Jackson and Helen Wightman.
Complexity in childbirth is growing significantly due to several factors that include increasing maternal age, rising levels of obesity and related diabetes. Women labelled as moderate or high risk are often excluded from useful strategies that low risk women enjoy, such as using water immersion for...
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London :
Open University Press,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The concept of normality in the context of challenging or complex childbirth
- 2. Positive approaches to health for childbearing women
- 3. The risk discourse
- 4. The supervisory perspective
- 5. Fear of childbirth: The impact of tocophobia on normal birth
- 6. Latent phase of labour
- 7. Obesity
- 8. Breech presentation
- 9. Multiple pregnancy
- 10.Vaginal birth after Caesarean section
- 11. When labour slows or stops
- 12. Maternal diabetes and gestational diabetes.