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HGOER on 2/18/2007 12:54:47 AM |
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RE: how do i help? |
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Good for you! You might like to know that coming soon from the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services is "Evidence Basis for the Ten Steps of Mother-Friendly Childbirth," an invaluable resource for anyone wanting the evidence that backs making change in maternity care. It will be out as the next issue of Lamaze International's Journal of Perinatal Education in March. The document will debut at CIMS' annual meeting, which will be in Atlanta March 8-10 (the announcement on the CIMS website says March -11, but the first and last days are for the Leadership Team.) For more info, go to http://motherfriendly.org/.
I'm glad you found Ob Myths useful. The book is sadly outdated, though. Amy Romano, who is in charge of the Normal Birth website, and I have started work on a new edition. It'll be a couple of years before it is out, but we are really excited about our plans for the contents, which include chapters on obstacles to change and strategies for overcoming those obstacles.
Birth as an American Rite of Passage was an "Aha!" book for me too. Being a logical type, I couldn't understand why the evidence wasn't instigating change. Robbie's book helped me understand that it wasn't about logic or science; it was about beliefs, and beliefs don't change in response to logic or science.
-- Henci |
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