Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
April 06, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
A guest posting by Jill Wodnick, MA. Hudson Perinatal Community Doula Valerie Inzinna explains, I first met Tina (not her real name) in January. She was nervous, scared and very much alone. We took Lamaze childbirth education classes together at a federally funded health center;
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June 18, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
...is up! Go check it out at Giving Birth with Confidence. What a PHENOMENAL collection of contributions about the moments, hours, and days after birth. Each of our Blog Carnivals has vastly surpassed my own expectations. I hope you'll agree.
June 12, 2010 | by: Jeannette T Crenshaw, DNP, RN, IBCLC, NEA-BC, FAAN, LCCE, FACCE
[Editor's note: This is a guest post from former Lamaze International President, Jeannette Crenshaw. When Jeannette told me about the video she reviews in this post, I knew I wanted to highlight it as part of the Sixth Healthy Birth Blog Carnival. I recall one birth I attended as a midwife, I
June 10, 2010 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, hospital noise has become problematic and researchers, along with some hospital administrators, are starting to listen. From The Boston Globe article: In 2005, a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University led by the engineers
November 05, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Ask a bunch of expectant women what worries them about labor, and chances are many of them will say, "the pain." Much is made about pain in labor. Women prepare for it, nurses constantly assess it, anesthesiology departments exist to eliminate it, and so on. But while there are many experience
September 10, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
As most readers of this blog are probably already aware, The Today Show ran an inflammatory piece about home birth this morning that parroted ACOGs long-standing scare tactics and anti-midwife rhetoric. Since I just wrote a post on the safety of home birth, I thought that rather than repeating the
September 02, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Launched in 2004 to summarize the evidence for a healthy, safe, and natural approach to labor and birth care, Lamaze's Care Practice Papers, have just undergone their second update. Now referred to as The Six Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices, the latest update incorporates current evidence as we
July 31, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Lamaze International launched Science & Sensibility to bring updates and analysis on new research to childbirth educators and other birth professionals as early as possible. We know you are on the front lines, answering questions about newsworthy research and bringing the latest evidence-based
July 29, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Advocates for evidence based care feel our ears perk up when we hear about a new Cochrane systematic review. Cochrane Review = Evidence! Right? Indeed, systematic reviews represent the top of the "evidence pyramid" and Cochrane systematic reviews are the gold standard for their rigor and
July 05, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Theres a new study out in the current issue of Birth that bolsters the already remarkable body of evidence favoring skin-to-skin care (rather than placing the baby on a warmer or swaddling it) right after birth. Russian researchers exposed mothers and their babies to some skin-to-skin time in the
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