Course Module

Second Stage of Labor - Google Doc

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Practice Guidelines Guidance

Online Resources

Websites

• Intermittent auscultation- Key recommendations - Royal College of Obstetricians & Gynaecologists

• “Fundal pressure during the second stage of labour for improving maternal and fetal outcomes” - Cochrane

• Pushing methods for the second stage of labour - Cochrane

• Perineal techniques during the second stage of labour for reducing perineal trauma - Cochrane

• Uterine Rupture - Medscape

• Supporting Healthy and Normal Physiologic Childbirth - A Consensus Statement by ACNM, MANA, and NACPM

• MANA and CFM position statement on water immersion during labor and birth

Articles from Midwife Thinking (Rachel Reed):

• The Anterior Cervical Lip: How to Ruin a Perfectly Good Birth (Need to complete module)

• Birth from the Baby’s Perspective

• Nuchal Cords

• The Perineal Bundle and Midwifery

• Perineal Protectors?

• Pushing: Leave it to the Experts

• Supporting Women’s Instinctive Pushing Behavior During Birth

• Understanding and Assessing Labor Progress