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A Book for Midwives

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Download the entire book, updated 2010: A Book for Midwives (PDF).

View and download individual chapters of A Book for Midwives below:

• Front Matter: Credits and Thanks, Table of Contents
• Introduction: Midwives and community health
• Chapter 1: Words to midwives
• Chapter 2: Treating health problems
• Chapter 3: A woman's body in pregnancy
• Chapter 4: Helping women stay healthy
• Chapter 5: Preventing infection
• Chapter 6: Common changes in pregnancy
• Chapter 7: Learning a pregnant woman's health history
• Chapter 8: Prenatal checkups
• Chapter 9: Getting ready for labor and birth
• Chapter 10: Giving good care during labor and birth
• Chapter 11: Opening: stage 1 of labor
• Chapter 12: Pushing: stage 2 of labor
• Chapter 13: The birth of the placenta: stage 3 of labor
• Chapter 14: The first few hours after the birth
• Chapter 15: The first weeks after the birth
• Chapter 16: Breastfeeding
• Chapter 17: Family Planning
• Chapter 18: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs)
• Chapter 19: Advanced skills for pregnancy and birth
• Chapter 20: The pelvic exam
• Chapter 21: How to insert an IUD
• Chapter 22: Helping a woman after a pregnancy ends early
• Chapter 23: Manual vacuum aspiration
• Chapter 24: Getting medical help
• Chapter 25: Homemade tools and teaching materials
• Medicines (green pages)
• To learn more (resources)
• Technical and medical words (glossary)
• Index (yellow pages)
• Due date calculator