Dedication Preface/Introduction About the Companion Website SECTION 1: CAREGIVERS AND FUTURE-CAREGIVERS 1. Our Responsibilities and Desires in Maternity Care 2. Hopes and Dreams for Maternity Care 3. Handover 4. Mentoring Future-Caregivers SECTION 2: THE LABOUR ROOM ENVIRONMENT 5. The Labour Room Environment 6. The Labour Room Environment - Our Impact SECTION 3: CARE DURING LABOUR AND BIRTH 7. The Labour Room Welcome 8.

Eating and Drinking in Labour 9. Mobility in Labour 10. Monitoring in Labour with Our Heads, Hearts and Hands 11. Caring for Women Experiencing Painful Contractions 12. When A Woman Feels the Urge to Push 13. Care During the Birth 14. Waterbirth 15. Breech - An Unusual Normal by Tanya Burchell and Shawn Walker 16.

Vaginal Birth After Caesarean Section - The New Normal 17. Meconium 18. Initial Care and Assessment of the MotherBaby Unit 19. Initial Care of Low-Birth-Weight Babies 20. Birth of the Placenta 21. Repairing Perineal Trauma SECTION 4: COMPLEX NEEDS IN LABOUR 22. Prelabour Rupture of Membranes 23. Preterm Labour and Birth 24.

Labour Dystocia 25. Inducing Labour 26. Medical Challenges: Hypertension, Obstetric Cholestasis, Diabetes Mellitus, Sickle Cell and Thalassemia 27. Birth by Forceps or Vacuum 28. Caesarean Section 29. Tokophobia SECTION 5: POSTNATAL CARE 30. Compassionate Care for the Postnatal MotherBaby Unit 31. Breastfeeding 32.

Hypoglycaemia, Hypothermia and Hypoxia 33. Neonatal Jaundice SECTION 6: PROMPT CARE IN A CRITICAL, OBSTETRIC EVENT 34. Maternal Sepsis 35. When a Baby Becomes Stuck 36. Cord Presentation and Prolapse 37. Postpartum Haemorrhage 38. Severe Pre-Eclampsia, Eclampsia and HELLP Syndrome 39. Adult and Newborn Life Support SECTION 7: WHEN A MOTHER OR BABY DIES 40.

When a Mother or Baby Dies.