How to become mother-friendly : policies and procedures for hospitals, birth centers, and home birth services / Barbara A. Hotelling, Helen A. Gordon, editors.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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This is the only book to present the evidence-based policies and procedures that medical and non-medical staff can use to develop Mother-Friendly Care in their facilities. The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI), developed by the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS), is a wellness model designed to improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs. It is an evidence-based mother-, baby-, and family-friendly model that focuses on prevention and wellness as alternatives to high-cost screening, diagnosis, and treatment programs. The MFCI is the first and only consensus d.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword by Wendy C. Budin, PhD, RN-BC, FAAN -- Preface -- Step 1: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service offers all birthing mothers unrestricted access to birth companions, labor support, and professional midwifery care. -- Policy 1A: Unrestricted Access to Birth Companions -- Policy 1B: Access to Continuous Emotional and Physical Support by a Skilled Woman -- Policy 1C: Unrestricted Access to Midwifery Care in All Birth Settings.

Step 2: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service provides accurate descriptive and statistical information to the public about the practices and procedures for birth, including measures of interventions and outcomes. -- Policy 2: Provides Accurate and Descriptive and Statistical Information About Birth Care Practices -- Step 3: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service provides culturally competent care -- that is, care that is sensitive and responsive to the specific beliefs, values, and customs of the mother's ethnicity and religion.

Policy 3: Culturally Competent Care -- Step 4: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service provides the birthing woman with the freedom to walk, move about, and assume the positions of her choice during labor and birth (unless restriction is specifically required to correct a complication), and discourages the use of the lithotomy (flat on back with legs elevated) position. -- Policy 4A: Freedom of Movement -- Policy 4B: Discourage the Use of the Lithotomy Position.

Step 5: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service has clearly defined policies and procedures for collaborating and consulting with other maternity services and linking the mother and baby to appropriate community resources during both the prenatal and the postpartum periods. -- Policy 5A: Collaborative Care -- Policy 5B: Community Resources -- Policy 5C: Transfer of the Midwife-Attended Planned Home Birth Patient to the Hospital Maternity Service.

Step 6: A mother-friendly hospital, birth center, or home birth service does not routinely employ practices and procedures that are unsupported by scientific evidence. -- Policy 6A: Shaving Practices -- Policy 6B: Enema Practices -- Policy 6C: Intravenous (IV) Drips -- Policy 6D: Withholding Nourishment or Water -- Policy 6E: Early Rupture of Membranes -- Policy 6F: Electronic Fetal Monitoring -- Policy 6G: Induction -- Policy 6H: Episiotomy -- Policy 6I: Cesarean Surgery -- Policy 6J: Vaginal Birth After Cesarean.

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