Myles' Textbook for Midwives

• Focus on woman-friendly care
• Women's stories to highlight good practice
• Colour photographs identify problem conditions and illustrate breastfeeding positions
• Focuses on normality whilst equipping midwives to handle complexity

• Bonus website features a bank of multiple-choice questions for self-testing, and illustrations from the book, with and without labels, for student and instructor use
• New chapter on "emotion work"
• New and improved 2-colour figures throughout
• Colour photograph section now grouped by topic
• Updated to cover latest guidelines, protocols and research evidence

The third book I own is eight years old. While it is not the most recent edition of the book, it was the edition printed before the current edition. This book has been what the previous editions have not been for me: a serious textbook about midwifery. Realistically, there are hundreds of midwifery textbooks out there, all of them good. But the Myle's textbook stands out above the others for a number of reasons. For one reason, it is simply well written. For another reason, it is been kept current with the changing times. And for a third reason, it tends to be the accepted textbook in midwifery study groups everywhere. The information in this book is solid and helpful. As a book to read as an aspiring midwife, this is definitely an intermediate level book, although the first few chapters begin gently. It is a book I would pack with me if I travelled.


An excellent handbook for any midwife or perinatal nurse.   October 20, 1998
Kathleen Laverty (kshjm@aol.com) (Oakland, California, U.S.A.)
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I was only just wishing this week that I had my old Maggie Myles textbook with me. I left mine behind when I left Zambia where the book was used as an excellent tool for those of us practicing as midwives and educating young Zambian nurses in the same skill. The book helped me many times in difficult situations to make critical decisions regarding the mothers and babies in our care. I never dreamed I would get a chance to write a review. I doubt it is to the standard you require. No matter. I know the book was up to the standard of any nurse midwife working in challenging circumstances.