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Index
Birth control?
Delivery at home
Labour - the importance for a woman...
Homebirths for all
Special Delivery Midwifery Practice
Teams and Caseloads
A continuing labour of love
Our pregnant lady
Emma, Joan, Liz and A.N. Other
Crisis at night
Small is intimate
Where have we gone wrong?
Get off the conveyor belt
Make it worth the wait
More than a laying on of hands
Continuity of care
Using the midwifery process
Involving the community
Growing in confidence
Encouraging feedback
Do antenatal clinics have to be cattlemarkets?
An antenatal adventure
Labour of love
Bedside manners
A radical blueprint
A different face each time
The 'Know your midwife' scheme
In search of continuity of care
Know Your Midwife
A dying philosophy?
Riverside midwife teams
Homebirth
Why GPs should back homebirth
A very special birthday
Custom-built birth at home
Retracing our cultural roots
The case for homebirth
Home service
No place like home for labour
Conflicting allegiances
Midwives' judgement
Trouble and strife
Juno Lucina 2
Juno Lucina 3
Discipline and clinical judgement 		Introduction
Midwives, not Nurses
Mistaken identity
No surrender
Should midwives train as florists?
Three steps forward
Symbols of servility
Childbirth Attitudes
Blue for a boy
The obstetrics of fear
Mother and Midwife - on the same side
A midwife's thoughts on dignity
Nowhere else to go
We always do that here
Clinical Issues
Responsibility for practice
Care plan or talisman?
Artificial rupture of the membranes
Babies presenting by the breech
Ethical issues facing midwives
Safer practices
Troubled waters
Objections overruled?
Is it the unkindest cut?
Fact finding mission
Midwives and breast feedingg
Cosiness in the delivery suite
Postpartum haemorrhage at home
Skills behind the scenes
Rules, Laws, Autonomy and justice
The 'Know your midwife' scheme
A midwife's nightmare
Supervision of midwives
Why do midwives want a new act?
The demise of the midwifery profession
Requiem for midwifery
The golden thread
Rules for midwives
A mother's birthright
Getting it right for mother and baby
There but for the grace of god go I
Juno Lucina
Birthrights
Juno Lucina 1
A matter of judgement
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