The Neuro-Affirming Midwife - Practical Care for Autistic & ADHD Parents from Pregnancy to Postnatal

Avery Shayl Lawrence

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The Neuro-Affirming Midwife: Practical Care for Autistic & ADHD Parents from Pregnancy to Postnatal

Support safer, calmer care for neurodivergent parents—without adding work to a busy shift. This practical guide shows you how to provide neuro-affirming maternity care across antenatal, labour, birth, and the postnatal period. You’ll get plain-language tools you can use in clinics, birth centres, labour wards, and home settings: checklists, scripts, templates, and quick sheets that help teams reduce sensory overload, improve consent conversations, and plan reasonable adjustments that meet legal duties and local policies.

What You’ll Learn

Neuro-affirming practice basics: language, sensory profiles, communication preferences, and shared decision-making.

Sensory-safe care: lighting, noise, touch, gowning, monitoring, and quiet-room set-ups.

Communication & consent: short scripts, visual aids, and briefing sheets for triage, induction, assisted birth, and caesarean.

Autistic care needs: masking, monotropism, shutdowns/meltdowns, interoception, pain, and postnatal decompression.

ADHD care needs: executive-function supports, appointment flow, medication considerations, feeding plans, and follow-up aids.

Birth planning: creating a neurodivergent birth plan and documenting reasonable adjustments for continuity across shifts.

Risk & safety: overload first-aid, grounding steps, and trauma-aware debriefs.

Team practice: handover phrases, signage, and small changes that raise care quality across the pathway.

What’s Inside

Ready-to-use tools: birth plan template, consent and explanation scripts, sensory toolkit list, overstimulation response card, postnatal check prompts.

UK-friendly phrasing: aligns with common NHS terms and roles while remaining useful internationally.

For the whole team: midwives, maternity support workers, perinatal educators, doulas, and obstetric teams.

Disponibile da: 25/08/2025.

Lunghezza di stampa: 191 pagine.

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