@article{1452352,
      recid = {1452352},
      author = {Xuereb, Rita Borg, and Jomeen, Julie,},
      title = {Perspectives on midwifery and parenthood /},
      pages = {1 online resource (1 volume) :},
      abstract = {The book Perspectives on Midwifery and Parenthood explores  contemporary issues relating to parenthood and midwifery.  This book bridges a gap in the literature, where it  highlights the close and unique relationships that  midwives, nurses, doctors, other health care professionals  and students enjoy with women and men during their  transition to parenthood. Midwives work in close contact  with and address the diverse needs of women and men during  one of the most critical life's transitions, preconception,  pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting and its long term  implications on the psychosocial, emotional, physical and  spiritual wellbeing of parents and infants. The chapters  cover the transition and preparation for parenthood,  midwives and parental-fetal-tie in pregnancy, perinatal  mental health, maternal well-being, infertility, repeated  loss and surrogacy, supporting early parenting following  preterm birth, adolescent pregnancy and early parenthood,  social challenges and parenthood including drug and alcohol  use in pregnancy, intimate partners violence, migrants and  transition to parenthood, fathers transition to parenthood,  diversity of family formation - LGBTQ+ parents,  breastfeeding, the role of spirituality during pregnancy,  and midwifery and parenthood. Each person is unique and so  is the response to parenthood, as the mother, father and  family embark on this new lifeworld, a lifelong commitment.  The book is a compendium of contemporary research depicting  the strengths, opportunities, and recommendations how  midwives and other health care professionals can nurture  optimal, compassionate, respectful person- and  family-centred care during pregnancy and early parenting,  the transition to parenthood. .},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1452352},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17285-4},
}