You can take this course as a single module for continuing professional development or as part of BSc (Hons) Enhancing Professional Health Care Practice

The module will explore:

  • Normal birth
  • Physiology of birth
  • Autonomy and the midwife
  • Historical and contemporary influences on birth practices
  • Importance of normal birth with reference to psychology (experiences of women and their families), sociology (impact on society, cultural issues), midwifery (the role of the midwife), public health (long-term outcomes)
  • Different models of birth, social, biomedical, holistic
  • Factors optimising a woman's chances of normal birth
  • Midwifery skills to support difficult births
  • The purpose of pain in labour
  • Physiology and psychology of pain and pain relief
  • Non-pharmacological pain relief: aromatherapy, reflexology, hypnotherapy

Course details

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