Contemporary Issues in Perinatal Education

Knowledge into Practice

Mary Nolan, Shona Gore, Mary Nolan, Shona Gore

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• eBook ISBN: 9781000649659
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education

Providing essential knowledge and understanding that midwives, health visitors, nursery nurses and lay birth and early parenting educators need to deliver effective and evidence-based education to all new parents and families, this book explores key issues in perinatal education.

Bringing together research and thinking around preconception and birth, infant sleep, nutrition, attachment and development, it also includes chapters on topics of growing importance, such as preconception education, LGBTQ+ parent education, the role of parenting advice, parent education across different cultures and teaching antenatal classes online. Each chapter includes a key knowledge update and pointers for practice.

This wide-ranging and practical text is an important read for all those supporting new parents from pregnancy through the first 1000 days, especially those delivering antenatal care and birth and early parenting education.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of figures
• List of tables
• List of contributors
• Preface
• PART I Preconception education
• PART II Building parents’ relationship with their infants from pregnancy onwards
• PART III Preparation for labour and birth
• PART IV Education and support for parents of twins
• PART V What parents need to know about sleeping, weaning and the media
• PART VI The ‘how’ of educating and supporting parents
• Index