Heart and Hands: A Midwife’s Guide to Pregnancy and Birth
Heart and Hands: A Midwife’s Guide to Pregnancy and Birth Books
- ISBN13: 9781587612213
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Product Description
For over two decades, HEART & HANDS has been a beloved guide for both midwives and parents interested in the benefits of midwifery care. This all-new fourth edition has been revised from start to end, featuring updated material that emphasizes independent midwifery, physiologic (natural) birth, and the art of nonintervention. Midwifery expert Elizabeth Davis includes valuable hints for turning breech and posterior babies, mediating pain in labor, and supporting newborn physiology. Davis also reveals the keys to postpartum recovery, with matter-of-fact tips on breastfeeding for busy mothers. Comprehensive and compassionate, HEART & HANDS remains a dog-eared classic for parents, midwives, and other birthing helpers.Amazon.com Review
Elizabeth Davis’s Heart and Hands, though subtitled A Midwife’s Guide to Pregnancy and Birth, is not just for midwives. It’s an brilliant and thorough resource for parents-to-be who are thought about delivering their child with a midwife, or who are concerned about the medical establishment’s over-control of birth. (Two previous editions sold more than 100,000 copies and there are nowhere near 100,000 midwives or midwifery students to buy this book, proving that parents-to-be have looked to this resource for options.)
Absolutely updated in the third edition, Heart and Hands is a matter-of-fact guide, textbook, and reference that is both hands- and hearts-on. Davis, a long-time, well-known midwife, gives how-to details on all aspects of midwifery do, including prenatal care, problems in pregnancy, assisting at births, labor complications (including a devastating and gorgeous description of a stillbirth by midwife Shannon Anton), and caring for the entire family postpartum. Each chapter has a unique section “for parents,” but expectant parents can use all of Heart and Hands to get as much knowledge as possible about their upcoming experience.
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Even as certain anatomical photos are certainly necessary to help clarify birth, this book goes way beyond medical visuals and seems to have gone out of its way to include pictures that border on pornography. There’s even diagrams that were amended to include “details” clearly not necessary to serve as an effective visual aid. Moreover, why it is necessary to have so many waistup shots of women’s breasts and pretty blatnat ones to boot when a baby comes out of the body waist below is beyond on us. We tried at first to ignore the pictures and read the book, but it just got so obscenre for us, we shelved it with plans to throw it away. Men buying Penthouse will certainly like this book!
Rating: 1 / 5
I plotting this was a super book! Certainly more geared to professional midwives than the general populace, but still excellent for the mom who really wants to be educated. I am a labor nurse and books like this keep me believing that there is more to birth that our hospitals have to offer. Some of the pictures were a small dated, but the in rank is classic.
Rating: 5 / 5
Book is brilliant. Gives wonderful insight into “Natural Childbirth” at home (not so much emphasis on sickbay birth). I am talking about birth with small intervention. This book is an brilliant guide in what to guess, how to handle specific situations, etc. Even touches on labor complications, how to become a midwife, and preparing a birth kit. Money WELL spent.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book was brilliant preparation for me as a student midwife. I look forward to applying the principles from this book to my do!
Rating: 5 / 5
“Heart and Hands” is a perfectly illustrated guide for midwifery students and experienced midwives alike. Anyone contemplating apt a midwife should start by reading this book. It will give you a excellent thought of what it takes to be a excellent midwife. The author Elizabeth Davis is a certified midwife and health care specialist. She compiled a fantastic guide on anything relevant to a successful midwifery do. In fantastic detail, she goes over topics such as:
- Prenatal Care
- Problems in Pregnancy
- Assisting at Births
- Complications in Labor
- Postpartum Care
- Apt a Midwife
- The Midwife’s Do
At the end of the book she included a wealth of resources; from forms of the medical history, birth record, newborn exam, and progress notes to the essential items in a midwifery kit and a list with Midwifery School Programs – Davis plotting of everything and I’m glad she mutual her knowledge with us.
Overall, I highly urge this book!!
Rating: 5 / 5