Simkin, P.|Ancheta, R.

The labor progress handbook:early interventions to prevent and treat dystocia - Oxford Blackwell Science 2000 - xv, 206p.

Provides midwives, nurses, doctors, doulas and childbirth educators with strategies to maintain normal labor. Focuses on ways to prevent dystocia, or failure to progress in labor, and to manage or treat it before it becomes severe. Suggests simple, non invasive interventions to use. Describes positions, movements, and techniques based on principles of anatomy, physiology, psychology and childbirth.

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Labor|Pregnancy|Birth Injuries|Maternal Behavior

WQ 300 .S56 2000