The Practising Midwife has gone from strength to strength in providing accessible, authoritative information addressing the needs of today's busy midwife
Keeping you up to dateOur comprehensive news section provides midwives with all the latest developments and guidelines that concern the profession, both in the UK and internationally
Broad range of featuresEach month, TPM concentrates on a particular theme, covering the widest range of issues, including:
- January 2007: Caring for the mind Mental healthcare and midwives; drama and depression; post-traumatic stress; peer support
- December 2006: Listening to vulnerable women Improving communication; ethics of charging for care; women with disabilities; Healthy Start
- November 2006: Postnatal perspectives Prioritising care; Infant feeding trends; Supporting breastfeeding
- October 2006: The caesarean Trial of birth method; surgical training for students; Vaginal birth after caesarean
- September 2006: Educating midwives Interprofessional learning; self-assessment; preparing students; the 18-month programme
- July/August 2006: Listening to women Restoring the value of birth; running a homebirth workshop; birth experiences; the user rep
- June 2006: With woman Lotus birth; experiences of breech; rethinking the vaginal examination
- May 2006: New directions Maternity Services Liaison Committees; NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework; patient-led reform
- April 2006: Being a midwife Dealing with bereavement; midwifing family and friends; how we talk to women; normal birth of breech twins
- March 2006: Complementary therapies Successful integration; inducing labour; shiatsu; teaching fathers massage; HypnoBirthing; aromatherapy
- February 2006: Embracing the world A Czech birth centre; fistula repair in Ethiopia; after the tsunami; combining old and new in Mexico; Ugandan care
- January 2006: Improving care Transforming the birth environment; normality and the high-risk pregnancy; one mother, one midwife
- December 2005: Public health and the midwife Caring for pregnant adolescents; hard-to-reach women; domestic violence
- November 2005: Nutrition for mother and baby Diabetes; preventing infant allergies; maternal breastfeed positions; milk banks
- October 2005: Intervention Pre-term birth; the pre-eclampsia community guideline; why mothers die
- September 2005: Supervision Confidentiality; supervised practice; creating a positive culture
Calling all student midwives
Our popular 'Midwifery basics' series is aimed at students in particular. Covering the main clinical skills underpinning practice, articles set out in simple, accessible form a comprehensive range of basic topics covering all aspects of antenatal, labour and postnatal care.
Research-ledWe are proud of our growing reputation for providing a forum for original research. All papers are peer-reviewed, ensuring that only work of the highest quality is published. Recent papers include:
- Birth method: trial and error?
- Pregnant adolescents: who cares?
- Domestic violence: learning to ask the question
- Maternal breastfeeding positions: have we got it right?
- How women choose where to give birth
- Does pethidine relieve pain?
- Birth centres: a success story
- Asking the question: antenatal domestic violence
- Improving the birthing environment
- The Breastfeeding Best Start Project
- Poverty and childbirth
AND MUCH, MUCH MORE...
Regulars include...
- Thinking outside the box Sara Wickham's thought-provoking column
- Research unwrapped How to really understand those myriad papers!
- Cochrane made simple An essential round-up of reviews
- Professional development Diary listings, vacancies and resources
- Last word Always challenging!
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