Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
September 06, 2011 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
[Editor's note: This post by Amy Romano is re-purposed here with permission, having initially appeared on Childbirth Connection's Transforming Maternity Care blog site on Monday, August 15.] Theres a big gap between our current maternity care system and the high-quality, high-value
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September 05, 2011 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
Yep...Birth and the BOLD movement are five, today! As your labor day weekend (or regular-old Monday) winds down, you still have time to register for, and enjoy watching, the live webcast of the Birth production, taking place in New Yorks Museum of Motherhood, beginning at 7pm (EST).
August 31, 2011 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
Warning: no science will be discussed in this particular post. This is all about sensibilitythe sensibility of mothers. How many of you have participated in a BOLD (Birth on Labor Day) production of the play Birth? How many have attended one? (Im assuming, here, yall know what Im talking
August 31, 2011 | by: Liz M. Demaere, RN,BN, LCCE
A year ago, my partner Alex Wakeford and I came up with an idea. We wanted to make a film that would change the world.More specifically, we wanted to create a film that would galvanize an army of birth warriors to help revolutionize birth around the world.Our journey really began three years ago wit
August 30, 2011 | by: Darline Turner-Lee
Preterm delivery, delivery before 37 completed weeks of gestation, has been shown to cause significant morbidity in infants and to be a cause of lifelong health problems in these children. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports, Preterm birth is a leading cause of neonatal and infant
August 25, 2011 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
There is no greater loneliness in the life of a human being than being alone with ones own suffering; and no suffering is greater than the mental torture of impending agony from which there is no escape and of which there is no understanding. Grantly Dick-Read, 1959, p.50 Grantly Dick-Read was
August 23, 2011 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
In April of 2010, Dr. Tricia Pilone of our regular contributorsposted the story of her third childs birth, an experience riddled with medical errors that nearly cost her and her son their lives. Dr. Pils story, originally published in the online medical journal Pulse: voices from the heart of
August 18, 2011 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
After practicing pediatrics for 34 years, Dr. Susan Markel has taken her clinical--and practical--wisdom to the pages of her new book, What Your Pediatrician Doesn't Know Can Hurt Your Child. Dr. Markel will share some of this attachment parenting-based wisdom during her keynote address at the
August 16, 2011 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
Debra Pascali-Bonaro's energy and enthusiasm for the work she does to improve lived experiences for childbearing women is contagious. Chair of the International MotherBaby Childbirth Initiative, doula, doula trainer and former board member of DONA, Lamaze childbirth educator, director of the c
August 11, 2011 | by: Jacqueline Levine, LCCE,FACCE,CD, CLC
Childbirth educators should be able to discuss sex during pregnancy and sex in the postpartum period with sensitive, evidence-based counseling, so that women need not rely on anecdotal information, old-wives tales or unreliable sources.The following quote stands as introduction to the chapter on
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