目次

BOOK 1 SECTION 1: CONTEXT Chapter 1: The Australian and New Zealand context Chapter 2: Contemporary Australian and New Zealand midwifery and maternity services Chapter 3: Human rights in childbirth Chapter 4: Fear and risk Chapter 5: Midwifery as primary health Chapter 6: Birth place and birth space Chapter 7: Ways of looking at evidence and measurement SECTION 2: THE WOMAN Chapter 8: Social and environmental determinations of women's health Chapter 9: Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women Chapter 10: Midwives and Maori women: advancing our relationships Chapter 11: Options for women around fertility and reproduction SECTION 3: THE MIDWIFE Chapter 12: Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand Chapter 13: Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand Chapter 14: Supporting midwives, supporting each other Chapter 15: Midwifery partnership Chapter 16: Working in collaboration Chapter 17: Promoting physiological birth BOOK 2 SECTION 1: AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE Chapter 18: Overview of reproductive physiology Chapter 19: Nutrition and physical activity foundations for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation Chapter 20: Screening and assessment Chapter 21: Working with women in pregnancy Chapter 22: Applied physiology for labour and birth Chapter 23: Supporting women in labour and birth Chapter 24: Working with pain in labour Chapter 25: Using water for labour and birth Chapter 26: Perineal care and repair Chapter 27: Overview of physiological changes during the postnatal period Chapter 28: Supporting women becoming mothers Chapter 29: Supporting the newborn Chapter 30: Supporting the breastfeeding mother Chapter 31: Pharmacology and prescribing Chapter 32: Contraception SECTION 2: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE Chapter 33: Women's psycho-social health and wellbeing Chapter 34: Variations in normal Chapter 35: Challenges in pregnancy Chapter 36: Disturbances in the rhythm of labour Chapter 37: Interventions in pregnancy, labour and birth Chapter 38: Life-threatening emergencies Chapter 39: Complications in the post-natal period for the mother Chapter 40: The compromised neonate Chapter 41: Grief and loss during childbearing - the crying times