The Midwife-Mother Relationship

The foundation between midwife and mother is the foundation upon which maternity care depends. Covering completely new topics areas, the new edition of this ground-breaking text brings together classic and current research to establish key tenets for maternity care within hospital and home.
This ground-breaking essential text reaffirms the fragility and the power of the relationship between midwife and mother and remains the definitive guide to the complex area of midwife-mother relations.

The new edition of this ground-breaking text brings together classic and current research. It remains the definitive guide to the complex area of midwife-mother relations

Introduction.- The Maternity Services Context; M.Kirkham.- The Less We Do the More We Give; N.Leap.- Emotion Work and Relationships in Midwifery; R.Deery & B.Hunter.- The Midwife: a Professional Servant? M.Cronk.- Poor Relations: the Paucity of the Professional Paradigm; R.Wilkins.- 'There's so much potential...and for whatever reason it's not being realised' Women's Relationships with Midwives as a Negotiation of Ideology and Practice; N.Edwards.- Feeling Safe Enough to Let Go: the Relationship between a Woman and her Midwife during the Second Stage of Labour; T.Anderson.- The Midwife/Mother Relationship where there is Poverty and Disadvantage; A.Gaudion & C.Homeyard.- Pakistani Muslim Women and Midwives Relationships: What are the Essential Attributes?; K.Bharj & M.Chesney.- Midwifery Relationships with Childbearing Women at Increased Risk; M.Berg.- Midwives' Personal Experiences and their Relationships with Women: Midwives without Children and Midwives who have Experienced Pregnancy Loss; C.Bewley.- Midwifery Partnership: a Professionalising Strategy for Midwives; S.Pairman.- The Midwife as Container; M.Taylor.- We Need to Relate; M.Kirkham.

Covering completely new topics areas, including the effects of emotional labour, poverty and health policy, the new edition of this ground-breaking text brings together classic and current research to establish key tenets for maternity care within hospital and home. It remains the definitive guide to the complex area of midwife-mother relations.