Supporting Women for Labour and Birth av Nicky (University of Technology Sydney Aust Leap

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This new edition provides an up-to-date and thoughtful guide to supporting women in labour, looking at a range of techniques and approaches that promote a safe and positive experience of birth for women and their families. Across the world, support in labour has been shown to reduce obstetric interventions and improve outcomes for women and babies. Written by two highly experienced midwifery authors, this text draws on a wide range of cutting-edge research on this topic, identifying how the evidence can be applied to everyday practice. Narratives from women and practitioners, including midwives, doulas, childbirth educators and students, are used to illustrate a range of situations where the quality of support is central to the quality of the experience and outcome. <EM>Supporting Women for Labour and Birth</EM> encourages readers to reflect on their experiences and examine the evidence provided by both research and  experiences of women and practitioners in order to explore how t