Holistic Midwifery: A Comprehensive Textbook for Midwives in Homebirth Practice, Vol. 1: Care During Pregnancy - Softcover

Frye, Anne

Softcover

ISBN 10: 189114555X ISBN 13: 9781891145551

Publisher: Labrys Press, 2010

Synopsis

This text is the first of three volumes (two of which have been published) covering all aspects of midwifery care during pregnancy and childbirth and of the mother and baby after birth.
This volume discusses care from conception until the onset of labor. Topics include basic female anatomy and physiology, midwifery practice issues, cultural considerations, hands-on skills, care through each trimester, problems that may occur in any trimester, and preexisting medical conditions.

About this title

About the Author

Anne Frye earned a BA in Holistic Midwifery in 1979. She has taught, written, and provided consultation services for midwives for the past 28 years. She has authored four textbooks written from the perspective of a midwife in homebirth practice. Her other titles include Understanding Diagnostic Tests in the Childbearing Year: A Holistic Approach, Holistic Midwifery: Vol. II: Care during Labor and Birth, and Healing Passage: A Midwife's Guide to the Care and Repair of the Tissues Involved in Birth (currently out of print and being revised).

Review

All of use have had the experience of having a back-up physician reply to a question with, what does Williams' say? Now, we can all ask, what does Frye say? Anne Frye has gifted us with an absolutely priceless MIDWIFERY text. Anne is uniquely qualified to write such a book. I don't know a more conscientious researcher or educator. This work will have a profound effect on midwifery . . . and obstetrics . . . and obstetric nursing. The midwifery community has waited a long time for a definitive textbook, but Frye's cyclopedic Holistic Midwifery text was worth waiting for! It (along with Anne's other books), is now a primary, required textbook for The Apprentice Academics Midwifery Home Study Course. --Carla Hartley, Director, Ancient Art Midwifery Institute

As an experienced nurse-midwife and educator, I am delighted to find a text that covers such an extensive range of material in such a straightforward way. Holistic Midwifery articulates the biophysical and clinical details needed by aspiring midwives in their scramble for skills, covers a broad range of holistic and alternative health care modalities, and provides the educator with a wonderful teaching resource. The information is both sensible and well researched. It has enlightened me on issues I thought I understood, clarified issues that were hazy, and caused me to question beliefs and methods I had felt to be true. This text will be an excellent resource for the beginning midwife, advanced practitioner, and educator. --Polly Malby, CNM, Retired Professor, Oregon Health Sci. University

In presenting a midwifery standard of care that is valid in its own right, Holistic Midwifery makes an invaluable contribution to the world, to birthing women, and to the health care community. . . . It documents that midwives, educated through a variety of routes, can and do offer excellent, skilled, and knowledgeable care; a quality of care so high, in fact, that it constitutes a challenge to technomedical practitioners to see if they can match the standards set by independent midwives. --Robbie Davis Floyd, PhD anthropology, from her Forward

In presenting a midwifery standard of care that is valid in its own right, Holistic Midwifery makes an invaluable contribution to the world, to birthing women, and to the health care community. . . . It documents that midwives, educated through a variety of routes, can and do offer excellent, skilled, and knowledgeable care; a quality of care so high, in fact, that it constitutes a challenge to technomedical practitioners to see if they can match the standards set by independent midwives. --Robbie Davis Floyd, PhD anthropology, from her Forward

All of use have had the experience of having a back-up physician reply to a question with, what does Williams' say? Now, we can all ask, what does Frye say? Anne Frye has gifted us with an absolutely priceless MIDWIFERY text. Anne is uniquely qualified to write such a book. I don't know a more conscientious researcher or educator. This work will have a profound effect on midwifery . . . and obstetrics . . . and obstetric nursing. The midwifery community has waited a long time for a definitive textbook, but Frye's cyclopedic Holistic Midwifery text was worth waiting for! It (along with Anne's other books), is now a primary, required textbook for The Apprentice Academics Midwifery Home Study Course. --Carla Hartley, Director, Ancient Art Midwifery Institute

Edition details

• Publisher: Labrys Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 189114555X
• ISBN 13: 9781891145551
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 1184