A Book For Midwives Care For Pregnancy Birth And Womens Health First Edition 7th Revised Printing Susan Klein by Susan Klein, Suellen Miller, Fiona Thomson 9780942364231, 0942364236 instant download after payment.

A vital resource for practicing midwives and midwifery training programs, A Book for Midwives covers the essentials of care before, during, and after birth. This illustrated guide equips midwives, birth attendants, and families with the information they need for healthier pregnancies and safer births. Inside, you'll find information on:

• staying healthy during pregnancy – eating well when there is limited access to food, understanding changes to the body, and preventing and treating malaria and HIV during pregnancy


• having safer labors and births – cleaning and sterilizing tools to prevent infection, recognizing warning signs during labor, handling complicated deliveries like breech births or twins, and preventing and treating postpartum hemorrhage


• successful breastfeeding – helpful suggestions, treating cracked nipples and painful abscesses in the breast, and what to do when the mother works outside the home


• homemade tools and teaching materials – instructions for low-cost timers, stethoscopes, and scales, and patterns for simple teaching models that can be made from paper or cloth


• family planning and sexual health – birth control methods, IUD insertion and removal, physical and emotional care for miscarriage, safe methods of abortion, performing pelvic exams, and treatment of HIV and other STIs


• preventing and treating obstetric emergencies as well as advanced topics like administering fluids intravenously, inserting a catheter, and sewing a tear or episiotomy

With their unique combination of knowledge and accessibility, midwives are essential to the worldwide struggle for maternal and child health. This trusted resource provides accurate information to support their vital work. Beyond clear depictions of pregnancy and birth, the hundreds of non-clinical, hand-drawn illustrations and plain language used in A Book for Midwives enables midwives and health trainers to involve families and communities in efforts to make pregnancy and birth safer and improve women’s health.

About Hesperian Health Guides: Hesperian partners with health workers, community members, medical professionals, and others around the world to develop, publish, and share accurate health information. To help all people take greater control over their health, Hesperian’s books are written using plain, easy-to-understand language, feature plentiful illustrations and are regularly updated with the latest medical information.

As in Where There is No Doctor , the Hesperian Foundation has again created a clearly written and culturally sensitive book which can be used by healthcare providers throughout the world who care for women and their babies and families...an excellent resource providing accurate technical information. --Kathy Herschderfer, Secretary General, International Confederation of Midwives

This comprehensive text for midwives is beautifully written and illustrated for teaching purposes in areas of the world in which maternal and newborn morbidity and mortality are quite high. The book is our best tool so far for preventing unnecessary deaths. --Ina May Gaskin, author of Spiritual Midwifery

A Book for Midwives not only provided the template with which to teach in developing countries, but also helped us create an inclusive and grassroots approach to clinical teaching, while showing us how to stay professional as well. --Pam Silverstein, MD FACOG, Health Development Initiative-Rwanda