Description
1. Introduction. 2. A brief overview of Chinese medicine for women's health. 3. What happens before, during and after birth: an integrative perspective. 4. Yin birth, Yang birth: understanding dysfunctional labor from a Chinese medical perspective. 5. A toolkit of strategies for intervening. 6. Additional considerations and approaches for commonly occurring labour dysfunction and complications (with Sarah Budd). 7. Advice on pulling the 'toolkit' together into a cohesive practice strategy, with case examples. 8. Advice on how the fetal heart rate/contraction monitor can be diagnostically interpreted as the 'pulse' of the labor (and also basics on its use for safety). 9. Postpartum and post C-section care. 10. Glossaries of unfamiliar Chinese and Western terms.