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Pain in Childbearing and its Control: Key Issues for Midwives and Women, 2nd Edition

ISBN: 978-1-4443-9205-0
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December 2010, Wiley-Blackwell
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Acknowledgements.

Introduction to the second edition.

Part I Before the Journey's Commencement.

1 Pasts and peoples.

2 Experiences and observations.

3 Medication: constraints and consequences.

4 Physiology of pain in labour (Dr Jennifer M. Tocher).

Part II Beginning the Journey.

5 Childbirth education.

6 Pain in pregnancy.

Part III The Journey.

7 Labour pain.

8 'Working with pain': non-pharmacological methods.

9 Pain relief: pharmacological methods.

Part IV The Journey's End.

10 Postnatal pain.

11 Fetal/neonatal pain.

12 Conclusion.

References.

Index.