Contents Front Cover; Book title; Contents; The Ten Teachers; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations and conventions; 1. The midwife and modern maternity care; 2. Conception, implantation and embryology; 3. Normal fetal development and growth; 4. Physiological changes in pregnancy; 5. Antenatal care; 6. Antenatal imaging and assessment of fetal well-being; 7. Prenatal diagnosis; 8. …
The world of midwifery is changing, whilst much stays the same: the importance of the relationship with women and the need for autonomous professional practise by midwives able to provide sensitive effective care, based on a foundation of scientific understanding; the world we work in is changing. Life and the world of midwifery practice grows more complicated, the knowledge base is expanding, …