Labour Rhythms

Essential Midwifery Practice: Intrapartum Care

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 63-80

  Walsh, Denis ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alternative skills in assessing labour; Direct links between duration of the second stage and fetal health; Labour rhythms; Mid labour rhythms; Midwifery diagnosis of labour in hospital; Normal labour and emerging critiques of labour progress paradigm; Organisational models of birth centres free standing and alongside; Repeated vaginal examinations (VE) as markers of normal labour pattern; Rhythms in early labour first stage of labour, latent and active being clinician based; Women labouring at different rates and progressive rhythms and 'dance of labour'

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885513586     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444317701.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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