"Postnatal" is the fourth title in the "Midwifery Essentials" series and explores contemporary postnatal care for women and their families, exploring the role of the midwife as a member of the multi-professional team. This book thoroughly prepares the reader to provide safe, evidence-based, woman-centred postnatal care for mothers and their babies. It includes the postnatal examination of the woman, and the baby check; care of the baby in the immediate postnatal period; the features of the normal neonate; the newborn clinical examination; hospital postnatal care and caesarean section; the role of the community midwife and emotional wellbeing; postnatal fertility control; and, issues involved in supporting the woman to feed her baby.
