Download or read book The Majestic Midwife written by Laura Neale and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-10-27 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow Jenny, The Majestic Midwife as she provides antenatal care, catches babies and helps with their first feed. Learn about midwifery in a fun and simple way from a young age.
Download or read book The Midwives Book written by Mrs. Jane Sharp and published by . This book was released on 1671 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work supplied English midwives and English women with a compendium of information for the Continent and from the author's own thirty years of experience.
Download or read book The Midwives Book written by Jane Sharp and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1999-08-19 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the midwife Jane Sharp wrote The Midwives Book in 1671, she became the first British woman to publish a midwifery manual. Drawing on works by her male contemporaries and weaving together medical information and lively anecdotes, she produces a book that is instructive, accessible, witty, and constantly surprising.
Download or read book The Secret Midwife written by The Secret Midwife and published by John Blake. This book was released on 2020-02-06 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of One Born Every Minute. The Secret Midwife is a heart-breaking, engrossing and important read. At once joyful and profoundly shocking, this is the story of birth, straight from the delivery room. Strongest supporter, best friend, expert, cheerleader and chief photographer . . . Before, during and after labour the role of a midwife is second to none. The Secret Midwife reveals the highs and lows on the frontline of the maternity unit, from the mother who tries to give herself a DIY caesarean to the baby born into witness protection, and from surprise infants that arrive down toilets to ones that turn up in the lift. But there is a problem; the system which is supposed to support the midwives and the women they care for is starting to crumble. Short-staffed, over worked and underappreciated - these crippling conditions are taking their toll on the dedicated staff doing their utmost to uphold our National Health Service, and the consequences are very serious indeed.
Download or read book A History of Midwifery in the United States written by Helen Varney Burst and published by Springer Publishing Company. This book was released on 2015-11-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by two of the profession's most prominent midwifery leaders, this authoritative history of midwifery in the United States, from the 1600s to the present, is distinguished by its vast breadth and depth. The book spans the historical evolution of midwives as respected, autonomous health care workers and midwifery as a profession, and considers the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities for this discipline as enduring motifs throughout the text. It surveys the roots of midwifery, the beginnings of professional practice, the founding of educational institutions and professional organizations, and entry pathways into the profession. Woven throughout the text are such themes as the close link between midwives and the communities in which they live, their view of pregnancy and birth as normal life events, their efforts to promote health and prevent illness, and their dedication to serving women wherever they may be and in whatever health condition and circumstances they may be in. The text examines the threats to midwifery past and present, such as the increasing medicalization of childbearing care, midwifery's lack of a common identity based on education and practice standards, the inconsistencies in its legal recognition as a profession, and reimbursement issues for midwifery practice. Illustrations and historical photos depict the many facets of midwifery, and engaging stories provide cultural and spiritual context. This is a "must-have" for all midwives, historians, professional and educational institutions, and all those who share a passion for the history of midwifery and women. KEY FEATURES: Encompasses the most authoritative and comprehensive information available about the history of midwifery in the United States Considers the strengths, weaknesses, threats, and opportunities for midwifery Illustrated with historical photos and drawings Includes engaging stories filled with cultural and spiritual content, introductory quotes to each chapter, and plentiful chapter notes Written by two preeminent leaders in the field of midwifery
Download or read book The Handbook for Midwives written by Henry Fly Smith and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Midwives in History and Society written by Jean Towler and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1986, this book examines the history of midwifery, concentrating on 19th and 20th Century Britain. It shows how the evolution of the midwife has been influenced by cultural waves which started in the Near East and Egypt in pre-classical times and slowly spread Northwards and Eastwards over Europe. The authors emphasize the effects of specialization and professionalization upon midwifery and also the influence of male authority and interest group politics. The evolution of the educated qualified midwife of the 20th Century is recorded, leading up to the ongoing debates about high technology birth vis-à-vis natural birth and home deliveries.
Download or read book Mainstreaming Midwives written by Robbie Davis-Floyd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book The Midwife written by Susan Cohen and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-04-21 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The midwife: medical professional, friend in a woman's hour of greatest need, potent social and cultural symbol. Though the role of midwife has existed since time immemorial, it is only since the Victorian era that it has been a recognised and regulated profession. This book, from social history expert Susan Cohen, looks at midwifery in Britain from ancient times up to the present, paying particular attention to its incredible medical and social advances of the last 150 years. It is a fully illustrated tour that takes in fictional midwives such as Dickens' Sarey Gamp, the founding of the Royal College of Midwives in 1881, the Second World War, the forming of the NHS and the Central Midwives Board, and looks at the increasing medicalisation of childbirth and the countervailing trend for giving birth at home.
Download or read book The Midwives of Seventeenth Century London written by Doreen Evenden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-02 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first comprehensive and detailed study of early modern midwives in seventeenth-century London. Midwives, as a group, have been dismissed by historians as being inadequately educated and trained for the task of child delivery. The Midwives of Seventeenth-Century London rejects these claims by exploring the midwives' training and their licensing in an unofficial apprenticeship by the Church. Dr. Evenden also offers an accurate depiction of the midwives in their socioeconomic context by examining a wide range of seventeenth-century sources. This expansive study not only recovers the names of almost one thousand women who worked as midwives in the twelve London parishes, but also brings to light details about their spouses, their families and their associates.
Download or read book Touching Bellies Touching Lives written by Judy Gabriel and published by Waveland Press. This book was released on 2015-05-18 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When I got there, I found the girl lying on the floor, naked and screaming, with the baby’s foot sticking out. Judy Gabriel gives humble, authentic voice to the personal experiences and practices of scores of traditional midwives in rural Mexico. The midwives talk about their childhoods, marriages, losses, rituals, and techniques. The rich narratives describe childbirth before modern medicine redefined it. Intended to engage, enrich, and inspire, Gabriel’s work tells of the women who received generations of babies into their hands when knowledge about childbirth came from women’s bodies, from instinct, from dreams, and from other women. The stories unfold in the context of high-intervention obstetrics and soaring Cesarean rates, a world that often degrades women and violates the sanctity of birth. An ideal supplemental text for courses in cultures of Mesoamerica; the anthropology of reproduction, midwifery, and birth; medical or biological anthropology; and midwifery practice in historical and cross-cultural context. Additions
Download or read book English Midwives Their History and Prospects written by James Hobson Aveling and published by Rarebooksclub.com. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...had to be recommended by matrons who had experienced her skill, and had to bring a certificate from the parish minister certifying as to her life and conversation, and that she was a member of the Church of England. Search in the account books of the Barber and Surgeon's Company of this date has failed to verify this statement Unfortunately the minute books for this period cannot be found. Midwife's Oath. "You shall swear, first, that you shall be diliigent and faithful and ready to help every woman labouring with child as well the poor as the rich; and that in time of necessity you shall not forsake the poor woman to go to the rich.; "Item. You shall neither cause nor suffer any woman to name or put any other father to the child, but only him which is the very true father thereof indeed. "Item. You shall not suffer any woman to pre tend, feign, or surmise herself to be delivered of a child who is not indeed; neither to claim any other woman's child for her own. "Item. You shall not suffer any woman's child to be murdered, maimed, or otherwise hurt, as much as you may; and so often as you shall perceive any peril or jeopardy either in the woman or in the child, in any such wise as you shall be in doubt what shall chance thereof, you shall thenceforth in due time send for other midwives and expert women in that faculty, and use their advice and council in that behalf. "Item. You shall not in any wise use or exercise any manner of witchcraft, charm or sorcery, invocation or other prayers that may stand with God's laws and the King's. "Item. You shall not give any counsel or minister any herb, medicine, or potion, or any other thing, to any woman being with child whereby she should destroy or cast out that she...
Download or read book Midwife written by Peggy Vincent and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set around Berkeley, California, Midwife: An Adventure is filled with unique characters and local color balanced by a skilled midwife's ability to educate readers through the ancient art of storytelling. Voices of women and children from the Internet are unique additions to this volume. Narrated by a midwife with a Go Get 'Em attitude and written with humor, tolerance, and everlasting wonderment, Midwife: An Adventure is Peggy's fourth book on the subject but her third in the series Memoirs of an Urban Midwife. Along with Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, Scribner 2002), Peggy's first book, these volumes have provided the impetus for many women to become midwives and for even more to consider the option of choosing a midwife for their care, whether they planned a home or a hospital birth.
Download or read book Sisters on a Journey written by Penfield Chester and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-seven midwives share their views on the challenges and rewards of helping women through childbirth
Download or read book Spiritual Midwifery written by and published by . This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic book on home birth is now in its fourth edition. Includes updated information on the safety of natural childbirth, new birthing stories, and the most recent statistics on births managed by The Farm Midwives. Mothers-to-be are instructed on how to take care of themselves while pregnant and how to prepare for being a mother and taking care of a new baby. Section III is a comprehensive, in depth manual for midwives on delivery. Includes pictures of births.
Download or read book Into These Hands written by Geradine Simkins and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Power, politics and profit aside, how a notion cares for its mothers and newborns is a key indicator of the health of that society. These essays, from twenty-five extraordinary midwives, speak directly to what really matters to women: the right to have safe and satisfying births. Book jacket.
Download or read book The Midwives And Their Missions written by Delsie Lepisto and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-17 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thoroughly delightful little volume by an experienced and resourceful midwife. One of the things that make the book particularly distinctive is the impressive diversity of the author's work experience. This book includes stories from her work as a midwife in urban Chicago as well as in Africa and Mexico. As always, glimpsing the dire situations facing birthing women cross-culturally is a sobering reminder of the immense challenges international midwives face with few physical resources--they accomplish an amazing level of care with only their heads, hands, and hearts. Each story shared in the book is selected with care and has an important message to share. The stories are about unique women and their unique births and what the author (and the reader) can learn from them. From empowering and exhilarating, to difficult and heartbreaking, particularly notable are the stories that remind us all to treat every woman with dignity and respect, regardless of her life's circumstances or choices. She is clearly a midwife who loves women and birth and practices with sensitivity, respect, and positive regard. Get your copy today!
