Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
January 09, 2011 | by: Edith Kernerman
There is much to celebrate in the breastfeeding world in regard to the world-wide increase in initiation rates (let's ignore Ireland's abysmal 47%). Alas, such numbers plummet as we speak about duration rates. Canada's disappointing record of 17% of babies exclusive breastfeeding at 6 months
Read More
December 22, 2010 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
Honesty is disarming. It should set the stage for dialogue. Jane Honikman, M.S., founder, Postpartum Support International One of the first written accounts of postpartum mood disorders was in 1436. Margery Kempe, mother of 14, wrote: Wherefore after that her child was born she, not trusting
November 23, 2010 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
In Monday's post from the blog site, Expecting Words, came this suggestion, following the description of a friend of hers who had recently been encouraged to have her baby room in and conduct skin-to-skin newborn care rather than have the baby cared for in the hospital nursery:...I am shocked at thi
August 02, 2010 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
A couple of weeks ago, at the Hyatt Regency in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, some intriguing (but not really startling) data were presented at the annual Brain Development and Learning Conference: mothers who touch their babies more often can alter their offsprings genetic expression and
July 31, 2010 | by: Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
[Editor's Note: This is the first post from our new regular contributor, Kathleen Kendall-Tackett, Ph.D., IBCLC. Kathleen writes about breastfeeding, perinatal/postpartum mental health, and psychoneuroimmunology (PNI). She writes on her site, Uppity Science Chick, "Few fields of study are more excit
June 18, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
...is up! Go check it out at Giving Birth with Confidence. What a PHENOMENAL collection of contributions about the moments, hours, and days after birth. Each of our Blog Carnivals has vastly surpassed my own expectations. I hope you'll agree.
June 10, 2010 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
According to a recent article in the Boston Globe, hospital noise has become problematic and researchers, along with some hospital administrators, are starting to listen. From The Boston Globe article: In 2005, a team of researchers at Johns Hopkins University led by the engineers
December 29, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Last summer, I was speaking to a producer of one of the popular cable TV so-called "reality" shows about the births he had witnessed. He said his crew had filmed only one home birth, and the woman had a severe postpartum hemorrhage requiring ambulance transport to the hospital. (She recovered fully.
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
September 07, 2009 | by: Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
[Editors Note: This is our fourth installment of guest posts from Lamaze Internationals 2009 Annual Conference speakers. Dr. Kendall-Tackett will present the Opening Plenary Address at this years conference. You can listen to podcast interviews will all of our plenary speakers online.
Subscribe by Email
RSS Feed