A Book for Midwives: Care for Pregnancy, Birth, and Women's Health


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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.

Review
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

About the Author
Dr. Suellen Miller is the Director of Safe Motherhood Programs at the Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, Associate Professor at the University of California San Francisco and Associate Professor in the Maternal and Child Health Program at UC Berkeley's School of Public Health. Dr. Miller is an experienced maternal health clinician, having practiced as a certified nurse midwife for over thirty years. Dr. Miller has extensive experience in international reproductive health in a variety of countries and cultures, including: Ethiopia, Philippines, Sudan, Bolivia, Mexico, Nigeria, Egypt, Yemen, India, Zambia, Tibet, and Zimbabwe. She has created training programs for every level of health care worker, such as surgeons, village and community health workers, anesthesiologists, TBAs, and nurse-midwives. She has written over 50 articles and multiple book chapters on midwifery, and has been working with Hesperian Health Guides since 1992, contributing to Where There is No Doctor , Where Women Have No Doctor , and A Book for Midwives.
Susan Klein was a midwife who worked internationally and tragically died of a brain tumor as the book was nearing completion.
Fiona Thomson studied midwifery and homebirth with midwives, and now works as a registered nurse with chronically ill homeless patients in California.


Tags: Health & Fitness, General, Women's Health

isbn:9780942364231, amazon:0942364236, google:JeOkAAAACAAJ