Delivering babies is like driving a car…
In midwifery, caring for a labouring person requires specific skills in order to provide safe care, including but not limited to:
- knowing the normal ranges of adult vital signs such as blood pressure, temperature, respirations, and pulse.
- knowing the normal ranges of fetal heart rate.
- understanding the physiology of contractions.
- understanding the process of cervical changes.
- knowing the normal variability of labour.
- knowing the signs and symptoms of normal labour progression.
- knowing the cardinal movements of fetal descent.
- knowing the emergency skills to various labour and birth issues.
- caring for a birthing person in the immediate postpartum period.
- caring for the neonate in the immediate postpartum period.
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