Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
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
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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
July 18, 2011 | by: Walker Karraa, PhD
Last April, I sat down with Dr. Michael C. Lu, director of the UCLA Preconception Care Clinic, lead investigator for Los Angeles County in the National Childrens Study, and newly appointed Chair of the Secretary of Health and Human Services committee on infant mortality. Dr. Lu is an associate
July 14, 2011 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
The March of Dimes, primarily now an organization about preventing premature birth (our national average still hangs out around 12%) has created a new continuing education product. The module, Loss and Grief in the Childbearing Period, is all about training nurses (and other professionals work
July 06, 2011 | by: Joanne I Leigh-Murfin, RN, LCCE
[Editor's note: Today, we are pleased to re-post a poignant piece, recently published on The Feminist Breeder, as a part of our Legal Corner Q&A series. Thank you, Gina, for sharing your story with us, and with all women!] When I found myself pregnant in August of 2010 - eight months after we beg
July 05, 2011 | by: Kimmelin Hull, PA, LCCE
Arms Wide Open: A Midwife Journey (Boston, Beacon Press) by Patricia Harman,CNM, is more than a memoir tailored to female sensibilities. It is a counterattack to the construed version of pregnancy, birth and womanhood that so many media outlets insist upon perpetuating. A year ago, I wrote a post a
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
June 28, 2011 | by: Jacqueline Levine, LCCE,FACCE,CD, CLC
Mother and Child Reunion The goal of Lamaze "Healthy Birth Practice #6, Keeping Mother and Baby Together - It's Best for Mother, Baby, and Breastfeeding" is to encourage and support mothers so they may confidently insist that they not be separated from their newborns, and be allowed to have ample
June 22, 2011 | by: Michael Klein MD
Research by our UBC affiliated Child and Family Research Institute has revealed that the increase in Caesarean section rates across Canada may be largely due to the attitudes and beliefs of the obstetricians and other providers towards birth technology and Caesarean sections. 81 per cent of obstetri
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