back issues

midwifemissy · #1 (**permalink**) 17-Feb-2008, 12:14

Does anyone know how much back issues of the Practising Midwife cost please?

Have looked on their website, but can't find anywhere that says how much they are.

Thanks

TallPoppy · #2 (**permalink**) 17-Feb-2008, 13:14

What one you looking for Missy I have about a million.... lol

midwifemissy · #3 (**permalink**) 17-Feb-2008, 13:21

Hi TallPoppy,

If you have the one I am looking for you are a lifesaver lol, I have tried everything I can think to find it, with no luck so far

I am after this article; Wallace & Marshall(2001)Skin to skin contact, benefits and difficulties. Practicing midwife, vol 4, issue 5, p 30-32

I tried the uni library, they were supposed to have it, but that year was incomplete, and that issue is the only one they didn't have

TallPoppy · #4 (**permalink**) 17-Feb-2008, 13:40

Have just come across a more up to date ref ..

Skin-to-skin contact. Benefits and difficulties
Wickham S ed. Midwifery: best practice 2.

Edinburgh: Books for Midwives , 2004. pp 162-165

Wallace H; Marshall D - (2004) Considers the benefits of skin-to-skin contact (kangaroo care), including helping to initiate breastfeeding, neonatal thermoregulation, and the promotion of mother-infant bonding. Discusses the cultural aspects of society, and the labour ward, which act as a barrier to women having skin-to-skin contact with their infants, and assesses the implications of these for midwives.

Any good?

midwifemissy · #5 (**permalink**) 17-Feb-2008, 13:44

Brilliant TallPoppy,

Thanks so much, I have been going round in ever increasing circles trying to find something about the difficulties of skin to skin and APGAR scores.

You are a star

midwifemissy · #6 (**permalink**) 17-Feb-2008, 13:59

That is a great article TallPoppy, I have actually borrowed that book from the uni library, but had only skimmed the chapter

I was looking at the cultural aspects from the wrong angle it seems, I was trying to find reasons why parents from different cultures may not want/be able to have skin to skin contact. I hadn't thought about women feeling uncomfortable with it because of how their partner felt, or because breasts are seen as sexual things (down Rob

) rather than for nurturing. That has given me quite a bit of food for thought.

TallPoppy · #7 (**permalink**) 17-Feb-2008, 15:52

I agree. Its almost as if we expect women to just feel comfortable with it particularly after a delivery were the woman has had no inhibitions and just gone for it. We forget how the pain and experience of childbirth makes women forget their inhibitions.....often the ones who come in pulling down their nighties feeling self conscious at first do at some later point whip the nightie off and seem to want to just get on with it. This could lead us to feel that the women are comfortable but skin to skin is different. Its after the event, the woman is beginning to feel her body is hers again and so may feel uncomfortable with baring their breasts/torso to begin skin to skin. I always introduce skin to skin under a blanket mainly to keep babe and mum warm but thinking about it the way we introduce skin to skin is infact crucial to its success.

I have delievered babies to mums who dont want the babies anywhere near them until the babes are 'cleaned up' (their words) you can almost feel the women reclaiming their bodies on the spot and having no more of that 'birthing business'!

midwifemissy · #8 (**permalink**) 17-Feb-2008, 16:49

I can understand how the women feel, looking back to when I had my children, I soon 'regained my body' and was very embarrassed when the midwife asked to have a look at my stiches 'down there', and all the other women in the ward were the same. One day one of the midwives turned round to us and said 'you girls soon get your dignity back when you've had your babies'.

I felt that was a very strange comment to make, I think it is a natural instinct in the culture we are raised in, 'nice' girls keep their bodies covered except for medical and intimate occasions.

This is something I will remember when I am on the delivery suite, and try to be as sensitive to the woman's needs as I can, and her partner too.

It is proving to be a very interesting subject, more so than I thought, and I have decided this is what I am going to do my assignment on, I can go more in depth with it than I can APGAR scores. Although I only have 1000 words to write, so it isn't going to be easy to stick within the word count