**Meet the editor**

Assistant Professor Ana Polona Mivšek, PhD, is a midwifery teacher at the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ljubljana, midwifery department. She finished her BSc in midwifery in Slovenia and her MSc in midwifery in the UK. Her PhD in sociological studies enabled her to have a deeper insight into the current trends of the midwifery profession.

She has worked in the delivery room of the maternity hospital in Ljubljana. Currently, she is lecturing midwifery and sexology in midwifery and teaching practical training to students in connection with physiological and pathological pregnancy.

Besides midwifery she is also interested in combining different knowledge with the aspects of midwifery care, such as psychology, sociology, sexology and ethics. Her primary focus of interest is on preconception health, midwifery care during healthy pregnancy and uncomplicated birth.

Contents

**Preface VII**

**Provision 1**

Masitenyane

**Long Term 37** Ruth Mielke

**Associated Factors 65**

Angwafo and Rosemary Ogu

Chapter 6 **Forensic Midwifery 111** Sevde Aksu

Chapter 1 **Basic Antenatal Care Approach to Antenatal Care Service**

Chapter 2 **Psychosocial Antenatal Care: A Midwifery Context 15**

Chapter 4 **Mistreatment of Women in Health Facilities by Midwives during Childbirth in Ghana: Prevalence and**

John Kuumuori Ganle and Ebenezer Krampah

Chapter 5 **Improving Maternal Health: The Safe Childbirth Checklist as a Tool for Reducing Maternal Mortality and Morbidity 87** Julius Dohbit, Vetty Agala, Pamela Chinwa-Banda, Betty Anane-Fenin, Omosivie Maduka, Ufuoma Edewor, Ibimonye Porbeni, Fru

Johanna Mmabojalwa Mathibe-Neke and Seipati Suzan

Thembelihle Sylvia Patience Ngxongo

Chapter 3 **Pregnancy Weight Gain: The Short Term and the**
