Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
March 07, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
I spent the good part of today glued to the live webcast of the National Institutes of Health Consensus Develop Conference on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC). The agenda was packed with expert testimony on the findings of a systematic review of 35 studies involving over 660,000 women with prior
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March 05, 2010 | by: Henci Goer, BA
First the good news: based on the presenters, it looks like the NIH VBAC conference will be a great improvement over the elective cesarean surgery travesty of four years ago. The conference seems likely to provide solid, evidence-based information on for whom and under what circumstances VBAC is
March 02, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Next week, scientists, policy experts, and advocates will come together for the National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC). A panel will spend three days reviewing the evidence and hearing public testimony. On Wednesday theyll announce
February 24, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Tomorrow marks the beginning of the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services Mother-Friendly Forum and Im happy to report that I made it to Austin ahead of the big North East storm. I have been to all but one CIMS Forum in the past 5 years, slinging infants to a couple of them. They just keep get
February 16, 2010 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
Pretty much everyone would agree that there is bias in research. Most people would say that bias is inherently bad. While it absolutely can be a bad thing, it cant be completely eliminated. So what can be done about bias in research? There are many kinds of bias: Researcher bias: researcher sets
February 15, 2010 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
Weve finished our series on finding research articles, the next series will focus on how to critically read articles in order to evaluate them. I think we all know there is good research and bad research, so now well explore how to tell the difference. Youve found an article that looks promising
February 07, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Weve been featuring each of the Six Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices in our series of blog carnivals, and this time were talking about interventions. Interventions in labor and birth can be helpful even life-saving. But theres no denying the fact that too often they are used when a safer, more
February 03, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
The Today Show, not known for their excellence in birth journalism, showed a live cesarean on air earlier this week. The birth advocacy community has weighed in on the shoddy reporting and the circumstances of the cesarean, pointing out that the stated indications ("big babies run in the family" and
January 28, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Yesterday, a multi-stakeholder group convened by Childbirth Connection released a Blueprint for Action addressing the question:Who needs to do what, to, with, and for whom over the next five years to improve the quality of maternity care? Not surprisingly, one of the answers to who is
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
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