Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
October 28, 2011 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
In a recent Science Daily report, Homicide, suicide outpace traditional causes of death in pregnant, postpartum women, caught my attention. Outpace traditional causes of death in pregnancy and postpartum? What about all of our concern regarding mortality rates as a result of C-section?
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July 22, 2011 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
[Editor's note: This is the fifth and final part of an interview series between Science & Sensibility's Walker Karraa, and OBGYN Dr. Michael Lu. To read the interview from the beginning, go here. For a list of resources pertaining to this interview series, go here: resources
July 21, 2011 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
[Editor's note: This is the fourth part of an interview series between Science & Sensibility's Walker Karraa, and OBGYN Dr. Michael Lu. To read the interview from the beginning, go here. For a list of resources pertaining to this interview series, go here: resources and bibliog
July 20, 2011 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
[Editor's note: This is part three of an interview series between Science & Sensibility's Walker Karraa, and OBGYN Dr. Michael Lu. To read the series from the beginning, go here. For a list of resources pertaining to this interview series, go here: resources and bibliography_dr lu in
July 19, 2011 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
[Editor's note: This is part two of an interview series between Science & Sensibility's Walker Karraa and OBGYN/researcher, Dr. Michael Lu. To read this interview from the beginning, go here.For a list of resources pertaining to this interview series, go here: resources and bibliogra
June 30, 2011 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
Try being a primary care provider treating a pregnant woman who is on antidepressants. Dr. Michael Kleins recent S&S post [about his newly published research] aptly considered the power of attitudes and beliefs to shape practices and maintain problematic paradigms. The same attitude
April 28, 2011 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
Join me in this amazing opportunity to learn about culturally competent maternity and postpartum care for Muslim women. Educator and postpartum mental health advocate Hajara Kutty shares invaluable religious and cultural context for birth and postpartum care in Islamic families.
Walker: Tell us about postpartum care in Muslim families. In your experience, how is a woman supported by her family when she comes home? Are postpartum doulas ever employed?Hajara: From a purely religious standpoint, postpartum women are exempt from performing the five daily prayers and are
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
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