Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
July 27, 2012 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
In May of this year, three leading midwifery organizations, American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM), Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) and National Association of Certified Professional Midwives (NACPM) jointly released a statement titled "Supporting Healthy and Normal Physiologic Chi
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July 05, 2012 | by: Deena H. Blumenfeld, ERYT, RPYT, LCCE, FACCE
When the study titled Elective birth at 37 weeks of gestation versus standard care for women with an uncomplicated twin pregnancy at term: the Twins Timing of Birth Randomised Trial came out on June 13, 2012 both the BJOG:An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in
June 19, 2012 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Guest post by Ami Burns, CD(DONA), LCCE, FACCE "What To Expect When You're Expecting" authored by Heidi Murkoff and contributer Sharon Mazel, is now in its all-new fourth edition, with over 17 million copies in print, and been a perennial favorite on The New York Times' bestseller lis
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 17, 2012 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
You can get from New Jersey to Maryland in less than an hour, but despite the proximity, New Jersey hospitals, on average, charge 3-4 times more than Maryland hospitals for both vaginal and cesarean births. This is just one of the notable facts gleaned from Childbirth Connection's analyses of the la
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 11, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
As a childbirth professional or an expectant parent, do you wonder about the multitude of pain management techniques offered for childbirth?As part of the Cochrane Collaboration, Leanne Jones and eight of her colleagues (2012) has published new research synthesizing divergent data constructs and sum
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;
April 02, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
New research was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Katherine Laughon, MD, and her colleagues, D. Ware Branch, M.D., Julie Beaver, M.S, and Jun Zhang, Ph.D., M.D., (2012) examined differences in childbirth labor patterns over the past fifty years, comparing data from a l
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