Module 3: Pregnancy labour, birth
Integrated fluid systems during pregnancy, labour & birth
- Developing knowledge of maternal physiological changes during pregnancy.
- A palpatory experience of body fluids in motion through different body systmes in relationship to gestation.
- Experience of embryonic motion of mother which is expressed in gestational transitions, and as preparation and ignition for labour & birth.
- Fetal expression of embryonic motion with primitive reflexes for growth, presentation, labour ignition & birth.
- Placenta development & birth.
- 15 hours CPD per module
Weekend Timetable
Saturday and Sunday
Start 9.30
Lunch 12.30-2
Finish 5.30
Patient Clinic
Saturday 4pm Demonstration with patient/s by presenter
Sunday 2.30-3.30 Participants practice with patient/s
References for further reading
Blackburn ST, 2007, Maternal, Fetal & Neonatal Physiology - A Clinical Perspective, 3rd Ed, Saunders Elsèvier, Missouri
Downe S (Ed), 2004, Normal Childbirth: evidence and debate, Churchill Livingstone, London
Kitzinger S,1997, The New Pregnancy and Childbirth, Dorling Kindersley Ltd, London
Morgan A, 2010, Healthy Pregnancy: A practical guide for health professionals, Clan Press, Norfolk
Odent M, 2003, Birth and Breastfeeding: rediscovering the needs of women during pregnancy and childbirth, Clairview Books, Temple Lodge Publishing, East Sussex
Sills F, 2009, Being and Becoming, North Atlantic Books, Berkeley, CA
Stables D, 2000, Physiology in Childbearing with anatomy and related biosciences, Bailliere Tindall, London
Yates S, 2010, Pregnancy and childbirth, Churchill Livingstone Elsevier, London
