Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
April 20, 2021 | by: Mindy Cockeram, LCCE
How many parents have you met that experienced the following birth scenario: Labor began with an induced labor using Pitocin (UK-Syntocinon), an epidural for pain relief and a long pushing stage or even an unplanned cesarean? The parents felt overwhelmed with joy when the baby was born and relief that the labor was over. As the new emotions settled in, the next stage of parenting began - breast/chestfeeding a baby on cue around the clock. Discharged home, the sleepy baby suddenly became more wakeful and eager to cluster feed. Day three became a challenge: jaundice set in and the pediatrician recommended supplementation due to excessive weight loss. The scenario ends with an emotionally drained parent worrying about their milk supply, supplementing with bottles of formula daily and potentially giving up on breast/chestfeeding before the mature milk even has a chance to arrive! Did their body really let them down? Did they really not have enough milk?
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February 12, 2019 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
A new study was just released: Virtual Reality Analgesia in Labor: The VRAIL Pilot Study—A Preliminary Randomized Controlled Trial Suggesting Benefit of Immersive Virtual Reality Analgesia in Unmedicated Laboring Women that examined the impact of virtual reality on reducing pain in labor.
October 09, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
A new study suggests there is no need to labor down with an epidural and supports immediate pushing after complete dilation with no change in cesarean rates or need for forceps or vacuums, with some benefits to parent and baby.
November 02, 2017 | by: Henci Goer, BA
Making the rounds on the internet is a report of a new study that supposedly shows that epidurals dont slow labor or increase instrumental vaginal or cesarean delivery. Henci Goer reviews the research.
January 26, 2015 | by: Henci Goer, BA
By Henci GoerIn October, Author Henci Goer wrote an article for Science & Sensibility, Epidural Anesthesia: To Delay or Not To Delay - That is the Question - examining the impact of the timing of an epidural on labor and birth. Today Henci looks at some new research, Epidural ana
April 07, 2014 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
Today, Andrea Lythgoe, LCCE and doula, takes a look at the peanut ball as a tool for promoting labor progress for women resting in bed or with an epidural. Many more facilities are making this new tool available to laboring women. Childbirth educators will benefit by understanding how to teach pean
February 14, 2013 | by: Henci Goer, BA
In my January Science and Sensibility blog post, I answered the question Can We Prevent Persistent Occiput Posterior? but because it wasnt relevant to the study that prompted the post, and the piece was already long, I didnt look at the role of epidural analgesia. Let me now rectify that.
September 19, 2012 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
The Canadian Medical Association Journal, published in their September 12, 2012 issue a very interesting study examining how a team approach to maternity care might improve maternal and neonat aloutcomes. The study, Effect of a collaborative interdisciplinary maternity care program on pe
April 11, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
As a childbirth professional or an expectant parent, do you wonder about the multitude of pain management techniques offered for childbirth?As part of the Cochrane Collaboration, Leanne Jones and eight of her colleagues (2012) has published new research synthesizing divergent data constructs and sum
April 02, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
New research was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Katherine Laughon, MD, and her colleagues, D. Ware Branch, M.D., Julie Beaver, M.S, and Jun Zhang, Ph.D., M.D., (2012) examined differences in childbirth labor patterns over the past fifty years, comparing data from a l
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