March 15, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
By Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, Ph.D., M.P.A.
Last month the Centers for Disease Control ramped up their warnings and released a new campaign to discourage any woman of reproductive age who is not on birth control to abstain from drinking any alcohol at all, along with those who are currently at a
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March 03, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
By Rebekah Wheeler, RN, CNM, MPH
By Muhammad Mahdi Karim (www.micro2macro.net) FacebookYoutube Own work, GFDL 1.2,https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11185617
The Zika virus and its potential effect on pregnant people have been hot topics for the past several weeks. News he
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June 17, 2015 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
By Christina Gebel, MPH, LCCE, Birth Doula
Christina Gebel, MPH, LCCE, Doula writes a reflective post examining current birthing conditions to see how today's practices might be interfering with the the normal hormonal physiology and consequently impacting women's ability to give birth. Times have
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June 15, 2015 | by: Henci Goer, BA
Neel Shah, Harvard Medical School assistant professor and practicing obstetrician, commenting in the New England Journal of Medicine Perspectives section - "A NICE Delivery - The Cross-Atlantic Divide over Treatment Intensity in Childbirth", agrees with new United Kingdom National Institu
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March 02, 2015 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
By Jocelyn Alt, CD(ToLabor), MBA My favorite way to teach is using interactive, engaging activities that get my families building community with each other, interacting with class members, actively partipating rather than passive listening and often up and out of their seats. Sometimes, i
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