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.
Author(s): Mary Nolan, Shona Gore
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 290
City: London
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Preface
PART I: Preconception education
1 Preconception health, education and care: the earliest intervention
2 Improving health and well-being before, between and beyond pregnancy
3 Would you like to become pregnant in the next year? The One Key Question® initiative in the United States
4 Breastfeeding promotion in early learning settings
PART II: Building parents’ relationship with their infants from pregnancy onwards
5 Stressed pre-birth? How the foetus is affected by a mother’s
state of mind
6 Commentary: Motherhood in conditions of war – biological and psychosocial routes to infant development
7 Attachment: a play of closeness and distance
8 Just chatting with a baby is more than you might think
9 The musical key to babies’ cognitive and social development
10 “Daddy’s Funny!” Fathers’ playfulness with young children
11 Creative play spaces: finding the space for play
12 Supporting the development of emotion regulation in young children: role of the parent–child attachment relationship
13 The transition to parenthood and early child development in families with LGBTQ+ parents
PART III: Preparation for labour and birth
14 Commentary: A mindful approach to childbirth education and preparation for childbirth
15 Preparing women for homebirth
16 The power to transform: freeing women’s instinctual potential for giving birth through body-centred preparation in pregnancy
PART IV: Education and support for parents of twins
17 Sleep patterns of twins
18 Breastfeeding twins
19 Helping parents understand and navigate the twin bond
PART V: What parents need to know about sleeping, weaning and the media
20 Infant sleep and feeding in evolutionary perspective
21 Sleep in early childhood: the role of bedtime routines
22 Food fussiness in early childhood: assessment and management
23 Weaning a baby onto a vegan diet
24 A relationship-based framework for early childhood media use
PART VI: The ‘how’ of educating and supporting parents
25 Commentary: Tug of war – could polarized parenting advice cause harm?
26 Exploring the application (or use) of educational theory in perinatal teaching through four theorists
27 Group intervention to treat fear of childbirth with psycho- education and relaxation exercises
28 Commentary: parenting programmes are not culturally relevant to many communities
29 Approachable parenting: the five pillars of parenting pregnancy and beyond programme for Muslim families
30 Heteronormative obstacles in regular antenatal education, and the benefits of LGBTQ-certified options: experiences among prospective LGBTQ parents in Sweden
31 A psychodynamic approach to working with pregnant teenagers and young parents
32 Fathers’ prenatal relationship with ‘their’ baby and ‘her’ pregnancy – implications for antenatal education
33 Tips for facilitating antenatal education online
Index
