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.
April 07, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Just a few weeks before her death last year, Karen Kilson, a beloved local doula and childbirth educator, sent me this email: She didnt hear back from me, because it was one of too many emails I let sit in my inbox until I had the time to write a coherent response. And in the meantime she passed
April 03, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
It sounded like an April Fools joke, except the story broke two days early. Doctors in North Carolina induced and ultimately performed a cesarean on a woman who wasnt pregnant. The case happened in 2008 but we all learned about it this week because the North Carolina Medical Board finished their
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
October 29, 2009 | by: Henci Goer, BA
This is the title of a Medical News Today piece, actually a re-posting of a press release from a coalition of websites that promote elective cesarean surgery. The press release claims that the 2009 edition of the WHO's "Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: A Handbook" has rescinded its 1985
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 21, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Im a huge Mad Men fan. For readers who arent familiar with the show, it depicts the goings on at a New York City advertising company in the 1960s. The show has earned critical acclaim not just for its stellar acting and story telling, but for the shows authentic depiction of the styles, trends
September 10, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
As most readers of this blog are probably already aware, The Today Show ran an inflammatory piece about home birth this morning that parroted ACOGs long-standing scare tactics and anti-midwife rhetoric. Since I just wrote a post on the safety of home birth, I thought that rather than repeating the
September 08, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Lamaze Internationals popular series, Research Summaries for Normal Birth, was discontinued in 2008 after four years of quarterly round-ups so that we could move to the blog format and launch Science & Sensibility. In order to bring all of our research resources together in one place, we are adding
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