Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
June 08, 2012 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
A Guest Post by Anna Deligio, MSW, LCCE, CD(DONA)Today's post is the second in an occasional series on welcoming all families to your childbirth class and honoring the diversity that different family models bring to pregnancy, birth and parenting. You can read the first part in this
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June 07, 2012 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Giving Birth with Confidence, Lamaze International's blog and go-to resource for expecting and new parents has joined with a new organization, PATTCh, (Prevention and Treatment of Traumatic Childbirth) to share the new "Traumatic Birth Prevention & Resource Guide" with GBWC readers and all of us
June 05, 2012 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
This post is the first in an occasional series on CBE teaching strategies that embrace the diverse populations that take childbirth classes. Childbirth educators that want to welcome all families to their classes will find information and resources in the series for making their classes a positive place for all. The second post in the series can be read here and will offer insights on specific things that educators can do, from a LCCE and lesbian mom. Please welcome this guest post by Cath Busha, MSW. - SM
May 28, 2012 | by: Henci Goer, BA
A recent study of elective induction at term purports to show that it would reduce perinatal mortality without affecting spontaneous birth rates, although it would increase admission to a special neonatal care unit if done before 41 weeks. The study, conducted in Scotland, analyzed outcomes of 1,271
May 22, 2012 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Lamaze International has released a new campaign, "Push for Your Baby!" that demonstrates the key role that childbirth educators have in providing the tools for mother and families to ask for and receive the best care possible for their pregnancy, labor and birth.Along with the "Push for Your Baby"
May 18, 2012 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Did you know that Lamaze is launching a new campaign called Push for Your Baby? Its an effort to encourage women to speak up and push for better care for themselves and their babies, and to spotlight the role that childbirth education has in equipping women with the information they need to be ac
May 02, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
In January of 2012, Marian MacDorman and her colleagues compiled a data brief for the United States Department of Health & Human Services, Center for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics. This brief, entitled Home Births in the United States, 1990- 2009, noted la
April 30, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
We wrap up Cesarean Awareness Month and acknowledge the week of International Midwifery Day with a post about an initiative to create a VBAC Friendly Hospital, led by midwives.ln honor of Cesarean Awareness Month, Lakeisha Dennis, the Chapter Leader of International Cesarean Awareness Network
April 25, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
A guest post by Deborah Issokson, Psy.D.Childbearing is a vulnerable process.Regardless of our profession within the childbirth world, we are working to facilitate an experience that has a positive emotional outcome accompanied by a healthy psychological adjustment to motherhood. It is incumbent upo
April 18, 2012 | by: Henci Goer, BA
How Long Can Labor Safely Be?By regular contributor, Henci GoerA few weeks ago Kathy Morelli wrote an S&S blog post about a study comparing labor patterns in the 1960s with labor patterns today. The contemporary data were collected by the U.S. Consortium on Safe Labor (CSL), a collection of 19 h
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