A Pocket Guide for Student Midwives

Stella McKay-Moffat is Senior Lecturer in Midwifery and Women's Health, Edge Hill University, UK.

'[A] clear, concise and well-presented guide...useful references throughout...essential for the student to gain further insight.' --Nursing Standard

Breech Brow presentation Caesarean section Cardiotocography (CTG) Carpal tunnel syndrome Catheterisation Caephalo-pelvic disproportion (CPD) Changing Childbirth Child protection The Children Act, 1989 Cholestasis Chorionic Villus Sampling (CVS) CLAPA Clasp trial Cleft lip and palate Clinical governance Centre for Maternal and Child Enquiries (CMACE) Community Health Councils (CHCs) Complementary therapies Confidential Enquiry into Maternal and Child Health (CEMACH) Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths (CEMD) Confidential Enquiry into Stillbirths and Deaths in Infancy (CESDI) Congenital dislocation of hips CONI (care of next infant) Contraception advice Convulsions Cord prolapse/presentation Cramp Crying baby Cultural aspects related to childbirth Cup feeding Cystic fibrosis Cystitis Deep vein thrombosis Delivery technique Diabetes mellitus Disseminated intravascular coagulation (coagulopathy) (DIC) Down's syndrome Drug-addicted mother and neonate Eclampsia Embolism Epigastric pain Epilepsy Epolepsy and pregancy Episiotomy Erb's palsy (paralysis) Exchange transfusion Face presentation Fainting Fetal distress Fitting Forceps delivery Frequency of micturition Fundal height estimation (antenatal) Fundal heigh estimation (postnatal) Haemoglobinopathies Haemorrhagic disease (Vitamin-K-deficient bleeding - VKDB) Haemorrhoids Headaches Heartburn Heel prick - peripheral blood sampling High vaginal swab (HVS)/speculum examination History taking HOOP (Hands On Or Poised) Study Hyperemesis gravidarum Hypoglycaemia - neonatal Hypothermia - neotal Hypothyroidism Identification of newborn at birth Incontience Induction of labour - alternative and 'natural' Induction of labour - medical: uncomplicated pregnancy Induction of labour - IUD Infection - maternal Infection - neonatal Initial newborn examination Insomnia Instrumental delivery - Forceps delivery Instrumental delivery - Ventouse delivery Intrauterine death (IUD) Intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR) Intravenous cannulation/infusion (IVI) Jaundice Jittery (twitching) baby Ketonuria Local Supervising Authority (LSA) MAGPIE trial Malpresentation - fetus Maternity action Maternity benefits Maternity services liaison committes Meconium liquor Medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency (MCADD) Mendelson's syndrome Mid-stream specimen urine (MSSU) Multiple pregnancy/births National CHildbirth Trust (NCT) Nausea and vomiting Neonatal screening Neural tube defect (NTD) Obesity in pregnancy Occipito-posterior (OP) position Oligohydramnios Ophthalmia neonatrorum ORACLE trial Parent education Partogram completion Perineal repair Perineal/surrounding area trauma Phenylketonuria (PKU) Phototherapy Placental examination Polyhydramnios Postnatal care/examination - baby Postnatal care - mother Postnatal depression Postnatal exercices Post-partum haemorrhage - primary Post-partum haemorrhage - seconday Pregnancy-induced hypertension (PIH) and pre-eclampsia Pre-labour or premature repture of membranes (PROM) Preterm baby Preterm labour Primary Care Trusts (PCTs) Prolonged labour - first stage Prolonged labour - second stage Pruritus Pudendal nerve block Pulse taking Relaxation techniques Respiratory distress syndrom (RDS) (Surfacant deficiency syndrome [SDS]) Resusciation of newborn Retained placenta Retinopathy of the newborn Safe Motherhood Initiative Sexually transmitted infection (STI) Sheehan's syndrome Shoulder dystocia Sickle cell disease Small-for-gestational-age baby (SGA) Smoking and pregnancy Stillbirth Stillbirh and Neonatal Death Society (SANDS) Strategic Health Authorities (SHAs) Substance-abusing mother and baby Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) Symphysis pubis pain/sacro-iliac pain Talipes equinovarus Teenage pregnancy Temperature-taking Tentorial tear Term breech trial Thalassaemia Thrombosis and Thrombosembolism Thrombophlebitis Transverse/oblique lie Twins Urinary tract infection - UTI Uterine inversion Uterine reputure Vaginal examination (VE) Varicose veins Venepuncture Ventouse delivery Vomiting Winterton report (1992)