December 29, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
This month's Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators is all about creatively using QR codes to help prepare the families you teach for labor, birth and parenting
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January 10, 2012 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
Later this month, Science & Sensibility contributors will share their hopes for the year 2012: what we would like to see accomplished in the ensuing months on behalf of mothers, babies and families, and the maternity care industry as a whole. One of my hopes for the coming year(s) is that
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January 06, 2012 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
This past September, news hit the popular media that several Oregon state hospitals introduced a hard stop on elective deliveriesincluding elective cesarean sectionsprior to 39 completed weeks of gestation, with the potential to decrease the incidence of late term premature birthbirth occurring
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January 05, 2012 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
In November, 2011, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released their preliminary National Vital Statistics data for 2010. Included in this data is a minor decrease in cesarean section ratesfrom 32.9 percent in 2009 to 32.8 percent in 2010representing the first drop in this mode of
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January 04, 2012 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
According to Glanz, Rimer and Viswanath in Health Behavior and Health Education (2008): Change strategies are most effective and likely to be sustained when they are directed at multiple levels of the organization, while simultaneously taking the external environment into account.
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