Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
May 09, 2010 | by: Henci Goer, BA
Last August, I argued against ACOGs current position on inducing labor with misoprostol, which is that misoprostol is safe when used appropriately (p. 387), by which ACOG means provided it is used in doses no greater than 50 micrograms in women with an unscarred uterus. In March, I started work
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April 27, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the leading nonprofit organization working to accelerate change in healthcare, has been in the news this month because its CEO, Donald Berwick, was recently nominated to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
January 26, 2010 | by: Debra Bingham, DrPH, RN, FAAN, LCCE
The Joint Commission Sentinel Alert #44: Preventing Maternal Deaths is an important document and public recognition that many of the maternal deaths in the United States are preventable. However, the alert is missing important and useful information for women and childbirth educators since the
January 25, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Im going to be on Momotics Blog Talk Radio tomorrow evening at 10pm EST discussing the issue of transparency in maternity care with Danielle from Momotics. You can listen here. For the occasion, I thought I would dig up this fact sheet I wrote for Lamaze a couple of years ago when we first got
January 01, 2010 | by: Henci Goer, BA
Many of you will have read the story of the woman laboring on Christmas Eve who suddenly went into respiratory and cardiac arrest in front of her horrified husband. She recovered shortly after her son was delivered by emergency cesarean, and the baby, too, was successfully revived. As the MSNBC
December 20, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
If anyone is wondering whether good quality childbirth education is necessary in our information age, the past month offers three compelling reasons to think that women remain profoundly in need of a trustworthy, reliable resource for learning how to have safe and healthy birth experiences.1. The
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
October 14, 2009 | by: Mayri Sagady Leslie
Once our children are born, it seems we have infinite patience for the great diversity and variety of growth and development among them. One gets teeth at this age, another a month later. My first walked at 9 months, my 2nd at a year and so on. We even seem to take it all in stride
October 07, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Last month, I announced the first in a series of Healthy Birth Blog Carnivals and asked for submissions from bloggers about letting labor begin on its own. How labor begins sets the stage for everything that follows, and with only a few exceptions, letting labor start on its own is the safest and
September 30, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
I seriously have no time to blog right now. Im flying to Orlando for the Lamaze Conference this afternoon, and theres plenty on the to do list still! But I was putting the finishing touches on my powerpoint talk this morning and I had to get a little something off my chest. My talk is called
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