The first chapter of this book focuses on how you prepare yourself for pregnancy. Preconceptual preparation should began at least three mounths before you start to try to conceive and is about reviewing your nutrition, your fitness, your stress levels and your lifestyle generally to see if you rilex enough.
Designed as a quick, practical A-to-Z reference, this book provides hundreds of drug-free remedies using nutrition, herbs, exercise, acupressure, and massage. It describes-and fully illustrates-numerous techniques that can be done alone or with a partner, along with specific precautions that should be taken.
Midwives are continually searching for alternative ways to help women have healthy, fulfilling experiences of pregnancy and childbirth. Inceasing numbers of both midwives and pregnant womwn are drawn to the nurturing, holistic and personal approach of complementary therapies.
The groundbreaking book succesfully does just that-and more-by actively reflecting on a broad but pertinent range of key midwifery issues. Written by a team og highly regarded experts-most of whom are midwives, but incluides two social researchers, a historian and a doul-this book should be required for every midwife and student.
Physiology in childbearing continues to provide an up-to-date, comprehensive and clear account of anatomy and physiology and related biosciences at all stages of pregnancy and childbirth.
The third edition of this book marks a time of change and expantion in the profession. This change and expantion is reflected in the title and in the size of the book. The change in the title from Nurse-Midwifery to midwiferu reflects the recentactions of the American college of nurse midwifery and the ACNM certification council, which assumed responsibility for setting the standard, for the pr…
Mayes' Midwifery, 13th Edition continues to be the most comprehensive midwifery textbook available. Focusing on modern clinical realities, with a clear emphasis on the normal, this popular text guides readers confidently from the first days of sudy through to qualified practice.
The third edition of this popular text examines the full range of challenges in genera obstetrics, medical complications of pregnancy, prenatal diagnosis and fetal disease, and management of labour and delivery.
The study of nutrition can be an interesting and rewarding subject for nursing students, not only for clien education, bujt also for their own health. This book is designed to show nursing students how to apply sound nutrition principles in assessing, diagnosing, planning, implementing, and evaluating total care of clients and to help the student contribute to the nutrition well-being of clie…
The eigth edition of this popular and highly respected text continues to recognize the increasing importance of nutrition in achieving and maintaining health and fitness and as a component of approriate and effective health care.