| View Larger Image | Heart and Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth | Paperbackby Elizabeth Davis (Author), Linda Harrison (Illustrator), Suzanne Arms (Illustrator)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Celestial Arts | | Edition: | 4th Edition | | Page Count: | 328 Pages | | Publication Date: | November 01, 2004 | | Sales Rank: | 47,585th |
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Product Description
For over two decades, HEART & HANDS has been a beloved guide for both midwives and parents interested in the benefits of midwifery care. This all-new fourth edition has been revised from start to finish, featuring updated material that emphasizes independent midwifery, physiologic (natural) birth, and the art of nonintervention. Midwifery expert Elizabeth Davis includes valuable hints for turning breech and posterior babies, mediating pain in labor, and supporting newborn physiology. Davis also reveals the keys to postpartum recovery, with practical tips on breastfeeding for busy mothers. Comprehensive and compassionate, HEART & HANDS remains a dog-eared classic for parents, midwives, and other birthing helpers. |
Amazon.com Review
Elizabeth Davis's Heart and Hands, though subtitled A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth, is not just for midwives. It's an excellent and thorough resource for parents-to-be who are thinking about delivering their child with a midwife, or who are concerned about the medical establishment's over-control of birth. (Two previous editions sold more than 100,000 copies and there are nowhere near 100,000 midwives or midwifery students to buy this book, proving that parents-to-be have looked to this resource for options.) Completely updated in the third edition, Heart and Hands is a practical guide, textbook, and reference that is both hands- and hearts-on. Davis, a long-time, well-known midwife, gives how-to details on all aspects of midwifery practice, including prenatal care, problems in pregnancy, assisting at births, labor complications (including a devastating and beautiful description of a stillbirth by midwife Shannon Anton), and caring for the entire family postpartum. Each chapter has a special section "for parents," but expectant parents can use all of Heart and Hands to get as much knowledge as possible about their upcoming experience. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 29 reviews)
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Heart & Hands by C. Rhoday  5 Stars
November 09, 2009
Book is excellent. Gives wonderful insight into "Natural Childbirth" at home (not so much emphasis on hospital birth). I am talking about birth with little intervention. This book is an excellent guide in what to expect, how to handle specific situations, etc. Even touches on labor complications, how to become a midwife, and preparing a birth kit. Money WELL spent.
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Excellent reference and preparation! by Chelsey McGehee, CD (Jax, Florida) 5 Stars
July 13, 2009
This book was excellent preparation for me as a student midwife. I look forward to applying the principles from this book to my practice!
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Great Resource for Midwives by Lilac Lily (Florida, USA) 5 Stars
June 02, 2009
"Heart and Hands" is a beautifully illustrated guide for midwifery students and experienced midwives alike. Anybody contemplating becoming a midwife should start by reading this book. It will give you a good idea of what it takes to be a good midwife. The author Elizabeth Davis is a certified midwife and health care specialist. She compiled a great guide on anything relevant to a successful midwifery practice. In great detail, she goes over topics such as:
- Prenatal Care
- Problems in Pregnancy
- Assisting at Births
- Complications in Labor
- Postpartum Care
- Becoming a Midwife
- The Midwife's Practice
At the end of the book she included a wealth of resources; from forms of the medical history, birth record, newborn exam, and progress notes to the essential items in a midwifery kit and a list with Midwifery School Programs - Davis thought of everything and I'm glad she shared her knowledge with us.
Overall, I highly recommend this book!!
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Fantastic!!!! by T.K. (Green Bay, WI USA) 5 Stars
May 24, 2009
Six stars if I could give it!!! Elizabeth Davis writes a very easy to follow, easy to understand handbook for almost any question regarding prenatal through post partum care with extensive resources at the end of the book. Fast read, outstanding work! Have lent it to a few friends already :)
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Very helpful book. by G. Yang 5 Stars
May 24, 2009
Very helpful book. I looked through the book very quickly and I know it's going to be an informative guide. I recommend it to anyone who is going to give birth and needs a guide to childbirth.
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