The Labor Progress Handbook: Early Interventions to Prevent and Treat Dystocia

Praise for the previous edition:

This is a concise and valuable handbook The Labor Progress Handbook belongs in every lab coat pocket, in every birth room, and at all of our fingertips as we help women to labor as normally as possible. Journal of Midwifery and Women s Health

The Labor Progress Handbook: Early Interventions to Prevent and Treat Dystocia is an unparalleled resource on simple, non–invasive interventions to prevent or treat difficult or prolonged labor. Thoroughly updated and highly illustrated, the book shows how to tailor one s care to the suspected etiology of the problem, using the least complex interventions first, followed by more complex interventions if necessary.

This new edition now includes a new chapter on reducing dystocia in labors with epidurals, new material on the microbiome, as well as information on new counselling approaches specially designed for midwives to assist those who have had traumatic childbirths.

Fully referenced and full of practical instructions throughout, The Labor Progress Handbook continues to be an indispensable guide for novices and experts alike who will benefit from its concise and accessible content.

Foreword

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1: Introduction
Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta

Chapter 2: Normal Labor and Labor dystocia: General Considerations
Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta

Chapter 3: Assessing Progress in Labor
Wendy Gordon, Gail Tully and Lisa Hanson

Chapter 4: Prolonged Prelabor and Latent First Stage
Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta

Chapter 5: Prolonged Active Phase of Labor
Penny Simkin, Ruth Ancheta and Lisa Hanson

Chapter 6: Prevention and Treatment of Prolonged Second Stage of Labor
Penny Simkin), Lisa Hanson and Ruth Ancheta

Chapter 7: Optimal Newborn Transition and Third and Fourth Stage Labor Management
Lisa Hanson and Penny Simkin

Chapter 8: Low–Technology Clinical Interventions to Promote Labor Progress
Lisa Hanson

Chapter 9: Epidural and Other Forms of Neuraxial Analgesia for Labor: Review of Effects, with Emphasis on Preventing Dystocia
Penny Simkin

Chapter 10: The Labor Progress Toolkit: Part 1
Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta

Chapter 11: The Labor Progress Toolkit: Part 2. Comfort Measures
Penny Simkin and Ruth Ancheta

Index

Penny Simkin is Senior Faculty at Simkin Center for Allied Birth, Vocations at Bastyr University and an Independent Practice of Childbirth Education and Labor Support, USA.

Lisa Hanson is Professor and Director of the Midwifery Program, College of Nursing, Marquette University, USA.

Ruth Ancheta is a DONA–Approved Doula Trainer and Independent Practice of Childbirth Education and Labor Support, USA.