Course Module

First Stage of Labor - Google Doc

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Practice Guidelines Guidance

Online Resources

Websites

• https://archive.org/details/accoucheursemerg00ying - The Accoucheur’s Emergency Manual, Yingling (Homeopathy)

• Friedman’s Curve and Failure to Progress: A Leading Cause of Unplanned Cesareans: Evidence Based Birth

• The Assessment of Progress: Dr Rachel Reed

• Midwives Model of Care

• Diagnosing onset of labor: a systematic review of definitions in the research literature: G. Hanley et all (2016)

• Support provided by midwives to women during labour in a public hospital, Limpopo Province, South Africa: a participant observation study: Maria S. Maputle 2018

• Prodromal Labor 101: What It Is, What It’s Not and How to Cope: Mother Rising

Waterbirth

• Waterbirth International

• Immersion in Water in Labour and Birth: Cochrane 2018

• Hydrotherapy During Labor and Birth: ACNM (PDF)

• A Model Practice Template for Hydrotherapy in Labor and Birth: American‐College of Nurse‐Midwives 2016

• Observing Position and Movements in Hydrotherapy: A Pilot Study: Association of Women’s Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses

Videos

Labor (Parturition)

Review of the physiological changes in labor

11:28 minutes