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A Book for Midwives covers the essentials of care before, during, and after birth. This illustrated guide is a vital resource for midwives, birth attendants, and families to support healthier pregnancies and safer births. Inside, you'll find information on: staying healthy during pregnancy - eating well when there is limited access to food, understanding changes to the body, and preventing and treating malaria and HIV during pregnancy having safer labors and births - cleaning and sterilizing tools to prevent infection, recognizing warning signs during labor, handling complicated deliveries like breech births or twins, and preventing and treating postpartum hemorrhage successful breastfeeding - helpful suggestions, treating cracked nipples and painful abscesses in the breast, and what to do when the mother works outside the home homemade tools and teaching materials - instructions for low-cost timers, stethoscopes, and scales, and patterns for simple teaching models that can be made from paper or cloth family planning and sexual health - birth control methods, IUD insertion and removal, physical and emotional care for miscarriage, safe methods of abortion, performing pelvic exams, and treatment of HIV and other STIs preventing and treating obstetric emergencies as well as advanced topics like administering fluids intravenously, inserting a catheter, and sewing a tear or episiotomy

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