Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care

Intrapartum Care has undergone profound changes over the past 50 years. Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care takes a broad sweep to examine these changes and their intersection with midwifery, in particular their impact on the midwife’s role during labour and birth. It is an invaluable guide for all midwives.

Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care addresses a wide range of topics including the evolution of Intrapartum care, debates about knowledge and childbirth education. It looks at birth environments, labour rhythms, working with pain, normal birth, unusual labours and complementary therapies. Written by key experts, this unique and diverse text will bring readers right up-to-date with the latest research and reflection in their specialist fields, and provide guidance on best practice.