Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
April 20, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
Read Part One in this series . . . Risk Factors for Perinatal Mental Illness (saaay what - so many??)Etiology: Bio-psycho-social Current research does not give us a crystal clear cause for perinatal mood disorders. It seems that a convergence of biological, psychological and social (biopsychoso
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April 18, 2012 | by: Henci Goer, BA
How Long Can Labor Safely Be?By regular contributor, Henci GoerA few weeks ago Kathy Morelli wrote an S&S blog post about a study comparing labor patterns in the 1960s with labor patterns today. The contemporary data were collected by the U.S. Consortium on Safe Labor (CSL), a collection of 19 h
April 16, 2012 | by: Darline Turner-Lee
By regular contributor, Darline Turner-Lee, BS, MHS, PA-CBook Review: Fragile BeginningsFragile Beginnings by Adam Wolfberg, M.D., is a deeply personal account of the events surrounding the birth of his daughter Larissa at 26 weeks and the emerging technologies that are being developed to save such
April 13, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
Stigma & Prevalence of Perinatal Mental Illness Part One of this series of posts discusses the experience of public stigma and self-shame around perinatal mental illness. Part Two talks about risk factors and types of perinatal mental illnesses. Part Three about what you can do, Words & Acti
April 11, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
As a childbirth professional or an expectant parent, do you wonder about the multitude of pain management techniques offered for childbirth?As part of the Cochrane Collaboration, Leanne Jones and eight of her colleagues (2012) has published new research synthesizing divergent data constructs and sum
April 09, 2012 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
By our regular contributor, Walker Karraa, MFA, MA, CD(DONA) A recent (2012) study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal Neonatal Edition contributes to the growing awareness that partners are negatively impacted by traumatic childbirth. The first study of its kind, Being there
April 06, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
A guest posting by Jill Wodnick, MA. Hudson Perinatal Community Doula Valerie Inzinna explains, I first met Tina (not her real name) in January. She was nervous, scared and very much alone. We took Lamaze childbirth education classes together at a federally funded health center;
April 02, 2012 | by: Kathy Morelli
New research was published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. Katherine Laughon, MD, and her colleagues, D. Ware Branch, M.D., Julie Beaver, M.S, and Jun Zhang, Ph.D., M.D., (2012) examined differences in childbirth labor patterns over the past fifty years, comparing data from a l
March 28, 2012 | by: Henci Goer, BA
The headline on a recent BBC News health article reads: Planned repeat C-sections safer. The article goes on to report on two studies that appear to support that conclusion, but do they really? Lets see what the article says and follow with a look at the actual studies. One of the studies, the B
March 26, 2012 | by: Lisa D Baker, BSc, BEd,LCCE, FACCE
Ah, spring is in the air. For me, spring brings to mind flowers, sunshine and vitamin D! In a recent article on healthychildren.org, the American Academy of Pediatrics discuss the recommendation that all breastfed infants be supplemented with 400IU of vitamin D per day. They extend this recommendati
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