Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
June 22, 2009 | by: Henci Goer, BA
The June 2009 issue of Birth contains the results of a pilot study gauging the effects of modifying the labor room to encourage mobility, reduce stress and anxiety, and discourage routine medical intervention. Investigators randomly allocated 62 healthy women in spontaneous labor to either
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May 21, 2009 | by: Henci Goer, BA
I was reading a Los Angeles Times article on the overuse of cesarean surgery when one quote leapt off the page at me. Said Dr. Elliot Main, chief of obstetrics of a California hospital chain, 'Cesarean birth ends up being a profit center in hospitals, so there's not a lot of incentive to reduce them
May 12, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Following a link from The Unnecesarean Blog, I read about the recent episode of The Doctors, in which the hosts discussed birthing options with Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, co-authors of the new book, Your Best Birth.There's plenty to unpack in this discussion, but one thing that jumped off the
May 02, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Yesterday, the New York Times ran a short and sweet piece about a father who "watched a couple of YouTube videos" about how to catch a baby when his wife was about to give birth to their fourth child and there was no time to get her to the hospital. Last month, Jill at The Unnecesarean Blog posted a
April 21, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
The internet is abuzz about a new study out of the Netherlands comparing the outcomes of planned home birth with those of planned hospital births in low-risk women. With over half a million women involved in the study, it is the largest of its kind. Its findings provide the best evidence to date
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