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Supporting Women to Give Birth at Home describes and discusses the main challenges and issues that midwives and maternity services encounter when preparing for and attending a home birth. To ensure that a home birth is a real option for women, midwives need to be able to believe in a womans ability to give birth at home and to promote this birth option, providing evidence-based information about benefits and risks.This practical guide will help midwives to have the necessary skills, resources and confidence to support homebirth. The book includes:the present birth choices a woman hasthe implications homebirth has upon midwifery practicehow midwives can prepare and support women and their familiesthe midwifes role and responsibilitiesnational and local policies, guidelines and available resourcespain management options

614.53 --- Vroedkunde --- Bevalling --- vroedvrouwen --- Thuisbevalling --- Verloskunde --- Childbirth at home --- Midwifery --- Nursing specialties --- Midwives --- Home birth --- Home childbirth --- Home delivery (Obstetrics) --- Homebirth --- Home care services --- Natural childbirth --- Opleiding

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Since 1987, when the global community first recognized the high frequency of women in developing countries dying from pregnancy-related causes, little progress has been made to combat this problem. This study follows the global policies that have been implemented in Sololá, Guatemala in order to decrease high rates of maternal mortality among indigenous Mayan women. The author examines the diverse meanings and understandings of motherhood, pregnancy, birth and birth-related death among the biomedical personnel, village women, their families, and midwives. These incongruous perspectives, in

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