Women’s health and disability
INTRODUCTION The promotion of health and a healthy life-style, and the availability of health promotion strategies or intervention plans to rectify any lack of well-being are very much on political,…
PEDIATRICS
Midwives’ skills, knowledge and attitudes: how they can affect maternity services
INTRODUCTION This chapter addresses maternity services, and although there is some unavoidable overlap with other chapters, especially Chapter 4, the content explores issues from a broader perspective and links more…
The interaction between specific conditions and the childbirth continuum
INTRODUCTION In the past women with certain medical or disabling conditions would have been advised by their doctors not to undertake pregnancy for fear of making their condition worse, having…
Women with intellectual disabilities
INTRODUCTION The purpose of this chapter is to provide guidance to practising midwives when working with parents who are learning disabled. During the production of this chapter, the question was…
The social construction of disability and motherhood
INTRODUCTION Disability is difficult to define, depending on the different and conflicting constructions regarding its ‘nature’ and ‘meaning’. Society is increasingly self-regulating; with more closely focused definitions of what is…
The role of the midwife in maternity service provision
INTRODUCTION Increasingly women with disabilities are making use of the maternity services (Royal College of Midwives (RCM) 2000) although the extent of that utilisation is unknown and is probably impossible…
Anomalies of Systemic and Pulmonary Venous Connections
● INTRODUCTION Anomalies of systemic and pulmonary venous connections can occur as isolated anomalies or in association with simple (atrial septal defect) or complex cardiac malformations (heterotaxy syndrome). Prenatal detection…
Atrial, Ventricular, and Atrioventricular Septal Defects
● ATRIAL SEPTAL DEFECT Definition, Spectrum of Disease, and Incidence The interatrial septum plays a critical role in fetal cardiac function as it provides a shunt between the right and…
Tetralogy of Fallot, Pulmonary Atresia with Ventricular Septal Defect, and Absent Pulmonary Valve Syndrome
● TETRALOGY OF FALLOT Definition, Spectrum of Disease, and Incidence Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) is characterized by a subaortic (malaligned) ventricular septal defect (VSD), an aortic root that overrides the…
