Natural Labor and Birth: An Evidence-Based Guide to the Natural Birth Plan

Natural Labor and Birth: An Evidence-Based Guide to the Natural Birth Plan

Aristizabal, Michelle

McGraw-Hill Education

10/2018

352

Mole

Inglês

9781259862878

15 a 20 dias

574

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Section 1: Patient-Driven Change

1. Why the Medical Community Needs to Embrace the Natural Birth Movement

2. Current Barriers to Natural Birth

3. What Women are Saying

4. Midwives and Natural Birth



Section 2: The Natural Birth Plan

5. Environment for Birth

a. Out-of-hospital birth: Home birth and birthing centers

b. Maternal stress response and effects on labor

c. Support of the laboring mother and benefits of doula care

6. Labor Management

a. Minimizing labor induction

b. Supporting ambulation during labor

c. Safety of intermittent fetal monitoring and alternative monitoring protocols

d. Benefits of amniotomy as an augmentation technique

e. Review of the evidence for routine use of Pitocin in labor and indicated Pitocin for protracted labor

f. Review of the evidence for minimizing cervical exams during labor

g. Safety and benefit of intrapartum eating and drinking

h. IV hydration and concerns regarding its routine use

7. Pain Management

a. The Epidural: Associated patient satisfaction, efficacy, safety, and cesarean section rates

b. Hydrotherapy: Efficacy of using showers and immersion tubs for comfort during labor

c. Comfort Positions and Breathing Techniques: Efficacy in achieving an unmedicated birth

8. Delivery

a. Positions for Delivery: Benefits and concerns of traditional and alternative positions

b. Water Birth: Review of evidence

c. Self-Directed Pushing vs. Coached, Valsalva Pushing

d. Delayed Cord Clamping

9. Post Delivery Mother and Infant Care

a. Immediate Skin-to-Skin Contact: Benefits for initiating breast feeding

b. Post-Delivery Pitocin: Indications and concerns over routine use

c. Newborn Antibiotic Eye Ointment and Vitamin K Injection: Review of evidence for routine use

d. Newborn Care Arrangements in Postpartum Units

e. Pacifiers and Bottles: Reviewing the evidence of "nipple confusion" and breastfeeding success

f. Placentophagy: Reviewing the evidence



Section 3: New Tools for Common Challenges

10. Labor Dystocia

11. Fetal Monitoring

12. Ineffective Pain Management

13. Integrating Medical Intervention into a Natural Birth Plan

14. Special Cases: Indicated Induction, VBAC, and High Risk Patients Wanting a Natural Birth



Section 4: An Integrated Model of Care

15. Antepartum Care: Setting the stage for success

16. Postpartum Care: Recognition of the fourth trimester
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Obstetrics, Gynecology, Ob-Gyn, natural childbirth, childbirth, gynecologists, obstetricians, maternity care, unmedicated childbirth, midwives, nurses, alternative childbirth, natural birth, natural labor, the birth partner, natural hospital birth, childbirth education, doulas