April 09, 2014 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
April is Cesarean Awareness Month, an event meant to direct the American public's attention to the United States' high cesarean rate. 32.8% of all birthing women gave birth by cesarean in 2012. A cesarean delivery can be a life-saving procedure when used appropriately, but it takes one's breath away
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September 25, 2013 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
by Wendy Gordon, CPM, LM, MPH, MANA Division of Research, Assistant Professor, Bastyr University Dept of MidwiferyMidwife Wendy Gordon shares with Science & Sensibility readers why the recent home birth research using 5 minute Apgar scores does not produce reliable data that consumers
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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
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November 02, 2009 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
This article is part of our Understanding Research series. MeSH - maybe you've seen it, that weird word that is always in caps, except for the little e. What is it and why should I care? Well, MeSH is an acronym for Medical Subject Headings, and in essence it is a way of having a standardized set
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November 01, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
A reader just alerted me to the fact that Medical News Today has retracted the article they published last week falsely stating that the World Health Organization changed its recommendations for optimal cesarean rates. No doubt, this is due in large part to Henci Goer's work debunking the article an
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