Books, Medicine, Midwifery

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Christiane Northrup
Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom
by Bantam (Paperback) (Release Date: 2002-06-25)

Ina May Gaskin
Spiritual Midwifery
by Book Publishing Company (Paperback)

The classic book on home birth! The first section details the experiences of parents and midwives during the birth experience. The second seciton is a technical manual for midwives, nurses, and doctors. Includes information on prenatal care and nutrition, labor, delivery-techniques, care of the new baby, and breast-feeding.

Michele R. Davidson, Marcia L. London, Patricia A. Ladewig
Clinical Handbook for Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan (8th Edition) (Clinical Handbooks)
by Prentice Hall (Paperback)

  An ideal companion resource to Olds' Maternal-Newborn Nursing & Women's Health Across the Lifespan, 8/e. Nurses working with childbearing families face a variety new challenges, including shortened lengths of hospital stay, the trend toward greater use of community-based and home care, and downsizing and mergers of health-care systems. This pocket guide is an ideal resource providing vital information to guide maternal-newborn nurses from pregnancy to the postpartum and newborn stages. It features drug guides, procedures, and common abbreviations for terminology. For student nurses gaining clinical experience.

Elizabeth Davis
Heart & Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy & Birth
by Celestial Arts (Paperback)

Peggy Vincent
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
by Scribner (Paperback)

Susan Scott Ricci
Essentials of Maternity, Newborn, and Women's Health Nursing
by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Hardcover)

This new Second Edition covers a broad scope of topics emphasizing common issues and maternity-specific information. With a unique concept-based approach and nursing process focus, this book helps students go from concept to application by building on previously mastered knowledge. This edition has an updated focus on evidence-based practice and increased emphasis on nursing management, focusing on assessment and interventions. The outstanding artwork includes photos and diagrams that clearly illustrate concepts and clinical conditions. Healthy People 2010 boxes identify maternity-specific health trends and nursing implications for achieving these objectives. Each chapter opens with a case study, which unfolds throughout the chapter to inspire critical thinking. Watch and Learn icons direct students to free video clips highlighting growth and development, communication, and nursing care.

AWHONN's Perinatal Nursing
by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (Paperback)

This clinical reference, co-published with the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN), examines the care and needs of childbearing women and neonates. A wide range of topics are covered including issues of professional development, continuing education, standards of care, legal considerations and professional organizations. A family-centered approach to perinatal nursing is provided and the various aspects and ramifications of different care delivery systems such as case management, critical pathways and collaborative practice are explored. Other topics include physiologic changes and psychosocial adaption in pregnancy, fetal monitoring, normal childbirth, care of the postpartum woman and newborn, assessment and care, obstetrical and neonatal complications, and loss and bereavement. Sample protocols, clinical pathways and numerous examples of documentation forms are also presented.

Penny Armstrong, Sheryl Feldman
A Midwife's Story
by Arbor House Pub Co (Hardcover)

She works by the light of kerosene lamps, without fetal monitoring systems, X rays, surgeons, or anesthesiologists. The nearest phone is several fields away.From the moment her own phone rings until she delivers the newborn into its mother's arms, each birth is different, and each is thrilling. To share the excitement of birth among the gentle, Old-Order Amish of Lancaster Count, Pennsylvania, is to experience a special thrill, a timeless grace. It is also to gain a new awareness of the quality of the birth experience, the difference between natural births at home and impersonal hospital deliveries.Funny and wise, with intervals of nerve-wracking tension, A Midwife's Story is unique, a revelation of a very special place and an extraordinary life.

Breastfeeding and Human Lactation
by Jones & Bartlett Publishers (Hardcover)

Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Second Edition is the most current and complete examination of breastfeeding and human lactation on the market today. Recognized as the authority on this subject, the second edition provides the comprehensive reference needed by nurses, nurse midwives, lactation consultants, childbirth educators, dietitians, and all other professionals who provide direct service to breastfeeding families. Representing more than 60 years of the author's combined experience, Breastfeeding and Human Lactation, Second Edition brings together, in a single resource, the clinical techniques, research findings, and varied roles of lactation consultants needed by anyone involved in the profession.

Donna L. Wong, Shannon E. Perry
Maternal Child Nursing Care
by Mosby-Year Book (Hardcover)

Univ. of Oklahoma, Tulsa. Extensive textbook for students on maternity and pediatric nursing care essentials. Heavy emphasis on critical thinking. 60 contributors, 59 U.S. DNLM: Maternal-Child Nursing-methods.

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