Midwifery : preparation for practice / [edited by] Sally Pairman, Sally K. Tracy, Hannah G. Dahlen, Lesley Dixon.

BOOK 1. Contextual implications for Midwifery practice -- Section 1: CONTEXT -- 1. The Australian and New Zealand context -- 2. Contemporary Australian and New Zealand midwifery and maternity services -- 3. Human rights in childbirth -- 4. Fear and risk -- 5. Midwifery as primary health -- 6. Birth place and birth space -- 7. Ways of looking at evidence and measurement -- Section 2: THE WOMAN -- 8. Social and environmental determinations of women's health -- 9. Midwives working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women -- 10. Midwives and Maori women: advancing our relationships -- 11. Options for women around fertility and reproduction -- Section 3: THE MIDWIFE -- 12. Professional frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand -- 13. Legal frameworks for practice in Australia and New Zealand -- 14. Supporting midwives, supporting each other -- Section 4: Practising partnership -- 15. Midwifery partnership -- 16. Working in collaboration -- 17. Promoting physiological birth.

BOOK 2. Midwifery practice -- Section 1: AUTONOMOUS PRACTICE -- 18. Overview of reproductive physiology -- 19. Nutrition and physical activity foundations for pregnancy, childbirth and lactation -- 20. Screening and assessment -- 21. Working with women in pregnancy -- 22. Applied physiology for labour and birth -- 23. Supporting women in labour and birth -- 24. Working with pain in labour -- 25. Using water for labour and birth -- 26. Perineal care and repair -- 27. Overview of physiological changes during the postnatal period -- 28. Supporting women becoming mothers -- 29. Supporting the newborn -- 30. Supporting the breastfeeding mother -- 31. Pharmacology and prescribing -- 32. Contraception -- Section 2: COLLABORATIVE PRACTICE -- 33. Women's psycho-social health and wellbeing -- 34. Variations in normal -- 35. Challenges in pregnancy -- 36. Disturbances in the rhythm of labour -- 37. Interventions in pregnancy, labour and birth -- 38. Life-threatening emergencies -- 39. Complications in the post-natal period for the mother -- 40. The compromised neonate -- 41. Grief and loss during childbearing - the crying times.

Endorsed by the Australian College of Midwives (ACM) and the New Zealand College of Midwives (NZCOM), Midwifery: Preparation for Practice has long been upheld as the definitive midwifery text for Australian and New Zealand midwifery students. Now in its 4th edition, the text presents a global model of midwifery best practice that is supported by a range of examples from the Australian, New Zealand and international midwifery contexts.