Table of Contents: Community Midwifery Practice

Chapter 1 Introduction – Ways of working in the community.

Chapter 2 Watching and waiting: the facilitation of birth at home.

Chapter 3 Home birth against advice.

Chapter 4 Physiological third stage of labour and birth at home.

Chapter 5 Teaching antenatal Classes – how can midwives deliver?.

Chapter 6 Newborn screening revisited: what midwives need to know.

Chapter 7 Breast feeding and the role of the community midwife.

Chapter 8 Safeguarding children.

Chapter 9 Peri-natal mental health.

Chapter 10 Supporting pregnant women living with HIV.

Chapter 11 Domestic abuse – Supporting women and asking the question.

Chapter 12 Pelvic Girdle Pain – formerly known as Symphysis Pubis Dysfunction