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Disability in pregnancy and childbirth
- Editors:
- MCKAY-MOFFAT Stella, (ed.)
- Publisher:
- Churchill Livingstone
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 219p.
- Place of publication:
- Edinburgh
This title is directed primarily towards health care professionals outside of the United States. No other book advises midwives on the special needs of mothers with disabilities. Although an increasing number of women with disabilities are having children, the needs of this minority group are not always being effectively met. Disability in Pregnancy and Childbirth provides essential practical information to healthcare professionals working with this group. Contents include: social construction of disability and motherhood; women's health and disability; maternity services and women's experiences; the role of the midwife in maternity service provision; women with intellectual disabilities; midwives skills, knowledge and attitudes; sensory impairment; the interaction between specific conditions and the childbirth continuum.
Going through the menopause: perceptions and experiences of women with intellectual disability
- Author:
- McCARTHY Michelle
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 27(4), December 2002, pp.281-295.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This article explores the perceptions, experiences and support needs of women with intellectual disability as they go through the menopause. Findings are presented from semi-structured interviews with 15 women with mild to moderate intellectual disability aged 43-65 years. Levels of knowledge about what the menopause was, when it happened, and whether it happened to all women, were found to be generally low. More significantly, the majority of the women did not understand the significance of the menopause on a woman's reproductive capacity. The women's experiences of change and transition were on a predominantly physical level, with some emotional effects, but little or no psychological and social impact noted.
Osteoporosis and women with Down syndrome
- Authors:
- MILBERGER, Sharon, LACHANCE Laurie, EDELSON Gary
- Journal article citation:
- Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disability, 27(4), December 2002, pp.273-280.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
This one year study of 23 women examined osteoporosis in postmenopausal women with Down syndrome. The findings indicate that the women tended to be inactive and they frequently had coexistent conditions. Eighty-seven per cent of the participants had osteopenia or osteoporosis in at least one of the three sites measured. The results highlight the need for intervention efforts targeted to ageing women with Down syndrome.