Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
December 04, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
We've been featuring each of the Six Lamaze Healthy Birth Practices in our series of blog carnivals, and this time we're talking about labor support. Healthy Birth Practice #3 is, "Bring a loved one, friend, or doula for continuous support."A national survey of women who gave birth in U.S. hospitals
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November 30, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Science & Sensibility contributor, Andrea Lythgoe, has a great post up at her own blog. In The Doula Numbers Game, Andrea shows that many of us may be overestimating and overstating the beneficial effects of continuous support from doulas. She argues and I agree that using outdated statistics
November 28, 2009 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
This article is part of the Understanding Research series.So you found a few good articles, but you wish you could have found more. Sometimes all it takes is finding one good study, and you can use that one to find more!There are several ways to do this:1. Most studies will have a section discussing
November 16, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Consider the Source is a new series of interviews with prominent researchers working to improve the health outcomes of women and infants around the time of childbirth.A member of the faculty at the University Rhode Island, Judith Mercer, PhD, CNM, FACNM, is the Principal Investigator on a randomized
November 15, 2009 | by: Katharine Hikel
This is a guest contribution from Katharine Hikel, MD. Dr. Hikel is a writer on women's health for Medscape/WebMD. Peer-trained in feminist women's health clinics, she is also a graduate of Harvard and the University of Vermont College of Medicine. She lives in northern Vermont with her family.
November 10, 2009 | by: Henci Goer, BA
This is off my usual beat, but a relative asked me to investigate progesterone treatment to prevent preterm birth. In her first pregnancy, membranes ruptured at 31 weeks and the baby was born a week later. (The baby was fine thanks to her mother taking good care of herself in pregnancy, steroids to
November 05, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Ask a bunch of expectant women what worries them about labor, and chances are many of them will say, "the pain." Much is made about pain in labor. Women prepare for it, nurses constantly assess it, anesthesiology departments exist to eliminate it, and so on. But while there are many experience
November 02, 2009 | by: Andrea D. Lythgoe, LCCE
This article is part of our Understanding Research series. MeSH - maybe you've seen it, that weird word that is always in caps, except for the little e. What is it and why should I care? Well, MeSH is an acronym for Medical Subject Headings, and in essence it is a way of having a standardized set
November 01, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
A reader just alerted me to the fact that Medical News Today has retracted the article they published last week falsely stating that the World Health Organization changed its recommendations for optimal cesarean rates. No doubt, this is due in large part to Henci Goer's work debunking the article an
October 29, 2009 | by: Henci Goer, BA
This is the title of a Medical News Today piece, actually a re-posting of a press release from a coalition of websites that promote elective cesarean surgery. The press release claims that the 2009 edition of the WHO's "Monitoring Emergency Obstetric Care: A Handbook" has rescinded its 1985
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