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“nicky leap”

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  • The Midwife's Tale

    An Oral History from Handywoman to Professional Midwife

    by Nicky Leap, Billie Hunter ...
    Mothers and midwives reveal the wonders and difficulties of early twentieth century childbirth in this informative and insightful healthcare history.Before the foundation of the United Kingdom's National Health Service (NHS) in 1948, expectant mothers relied on midwives to help them through childbirth. Based on interviews conducted with dozens and mothers and retired midwives over several years, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Supporting Women for Labour and Birth

    A Thoughtful Guide

    by Nicky Leap, Billie Hunter ...
    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 ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Midwifery Continuity of Care - E-Book

    A Practical Guide

    by Pat Brodie, Nicky Leap, Caroline Homer ...
    The many pressures on maternity services such as escalating intervention rates, rising costs, and midwife and doctor shortages has resulted in a growing interest in how midwifery continuity of care can be provided. Midwifery Continuity of Care provides a robust and well structured 'how to' guide to this topic by discussing the development, implementation and evaluation of differing ways of ... Read more

    $56.69 USD

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    Edited by Soo Downe, Sheena Byrom, Louise Simpson ...
    Series series Essential Midwifery Practice
    Leadership, expertise, and collaborative working are fundamental aspects of efficient and effective healthcare. This book offers a comprehensive overview of the general theories, principles and points of good practice in each of these three areas. This general literature is then contextualised by theoretical and practical implications for maternity care, and illustrated with in-depth case studies ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom With Modern Knowledge

    by Rachel Reed ...
    It's time for a childbirth revolution. The modern approach to maternity care fails women, families and care providers with outdated practices that centre the needs of institutions rather than individuals. In this book, Rachel Reed weaves history, science and research with the experiences of women and care providers to create a holistic, evidence-based framework for understanding birth. Reclaiming ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Give Birth Like a Feminist

    Your body. Your baby. Your choices.

    by Milli Hill ...
    As featured on BBC Radio 2 and BBC Radio 5 Live Selected as one of the Independent’s 10 best pregnancy books for expectant parentsBirth is a feminist issue. It’s the feminist issue nobody’s talking about.For too long women have been told, ‘a healthy baby is all that matters’. This book dares to say women matter too.Finally blasting the feminist spotlight into the labour ward, Milli Hill enc... ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • In Your Own Time

    How western medicine controls the start of labour and why this needs to stop

    by Sara Wickham ...
    Pregnant women and maternity services are facing an induction epidemic. As medical guidelines include more “at risk” categories, women and our already overwhelmed and under resourced maternity systems are increasingly pressured to induce birth before labour begins spontaneously. Women are deemed to be too large and too old, while babies are estimated to be too big and too overdue. But is ‘better ... Read more

    $8.18 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Hormone Myth

    How Junk Science, Gender Politics, and Lies about PMS Keep Women Down

    by Robyn Stein DeLuca, PhD ...
    **“**The Hormone Myth is a bracing, accurate breath of fresh air. It turns conventional wisdom about hormones on its head, and provides a far more liberating view of women’s health than what we’ve all been taught.”—Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women's Bodies, Women's Wisdom“Is it that time of month?”“Is your biological clock ticking?”"You're so emotional lately—are you g... ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

  • Ageing

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Nancy A. Pachana ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Ageing is an activity we are familiar with from an early age. In our younger years upcoming birthdays are anticipated with an excitement that somewhat diminishes as the years progress. As we grow older we are bombarded with advice on ways to overcome, thwart, resist, and, on the rare occasion, embrace, one's ageing. Have all human beings from the various historical epochs and cultures viewed aging ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Clinical Reflexology

    A Guide for Integrated Practice

    by Denise Tiran, Peter A. Mackereth ...
    Clinical Reflexology takes the practitioner on a journey of examination, critical review and debate prior to making recommendations for best practice in reflexology. The phenomenal rise in interest by health professionals in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM), and in particular touch therapies, has led to a need for texts that relate and integrate theory and practice to health care ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • What the hell happened to my brain?

    Living Beyond Dementia

    by Kate Swaffer ...
    Kate Swaffer was just 49 years old when she was diagnosed with a form of younger onset dementia. In this book, she offers an all-too-rare first-hand insight into that experience, sounding a clarion call for change in how we ensure a better quality of life for people with dementia.Kate describes vividly her experiences of living with dementia, exploring the effects of memory difficulties, loss of ... Read more

    $22.09 USD

  • Childbirth in the Age of Plastics

    by Michel Odent ...
    Since the middle of the twentieth century, the development of plastics has been one of the main factors influencing the history of medicine. For example, an anaesthesiologist was formerly an expert in delivering drugs by inhalation. Today, this expert delivers drugs through plastic catheters, in particular via intravenous and epidural routes. Where obstetrics is concerned, a typical modern woman ... Read more

    $6.29 USD