Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
May 05, 2020 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Today is the International Day of the Midwife. Midwives practice around the world and are the perfect health care provider to provide care for healthy, low risk families during the childbearing year. In many circumstances, midwives also provide well-person care reproductive care such as contraception, screening and diagnostic testing, and with guidance through puberty and menopause as well.
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April 29, 2020 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, CD/BDT(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, CLE
April’s Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators serves two purposes! We honor and recognize Cesarean Awareness Month and also share an opportunity to support those educators who are teaching virtually during the COVID-19 global pandemic. When we are teaching virtually, as in person classes are not safe to hold currently, you can use a virtual background behind you that supplements the topic you are covering. In the case of cesareans, you can use an operating room with a baby warmer.
April 24, 2020 | by: Kate Drew, LCCE, RM, RM
Eduators need to provide information about COVID-19, pregnancy, labour and birth, but also provide ideas and learnings about how families can celebrate the joy of being pregnant and birthing their babies. Now more than ever, it is essential to assist families to celebrate and bring this joy into their lives.
April 22, 2020 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the White Ribbon Alliance has created the Safer Together: Respectful Maternity Care in COVID-19 campaign and designed an advocacy and communications agenda that people everywhere can use to protect and support the experiences of birthing families worldwide. This material can easily be adapted to your local needs as necessary
April 17, 2020 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, CD/BDT(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, CLE
April 11th-17th is Black Maternal Health Week. Due to both historical and ongoing racism, inequities and oppression, outcomes for Black parents and babies is significantly worse than for their non-Black peers. Black parents and their families should be centered and supported as they grow their families. They should be lifted up and receive respectful, culturally appropriate and evidence-based care. Perinatal professionals can be a resource for Black families, helping them to feel informed, supporting their decisions and offering information that can be used during their pregnancy, birth and early parenting time.
April 14, 2020 | by: Cara Terreri, LCCE, CD(DONA)
During this time when finances, resources, and sanity are stretched thin, organizations all over the world are trying to do their part to help childbirth educators, perinatal professionals and families by offering free or reduced price resources, products, entertainment, teaching tools, and so on. BabyBabyOhBaby, the "incomparable" parenting videos company, has partnered with Lamaze to offer blog readers free videos, "Breastfeeding" and "Infant Massage."
April 10, 2020 | by: Lesley Pascuzzi, LCCE, BSc, MSc, Dip
As childbirth educators, we don’t need reminding that the mind-body connection holds incredible significance for safe and healthy pregnancy, labour and birth. Anxiety, stress, fear, and worry all hinder the cocktail of birth hormones we pay frequent tribute to in our classes. Birthing in the time of COVID-19 means adapting our childbirth class curriculums and content to the new stressors facing pregnant people today.
April 07, 2020 | by: Angela Hodge
When I started reading Mindful Pregnancy (DK, 2020) by Tracy Donegan, there were just a few confirmed cases of COVID-19 in my state of Washington. By the time you are reading this, things are almost unrecognizable. In a world that is humming with anxiety, with no clear end in sight, Donegan’s pregnancy guide is quite timely. It provides comfort to pregnant people, with practical guidance for how to deal with stress.
March 31, 2020 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, CD/BDT(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, CLE
Families worldwide are facing new and unforeseen challenges as they prepare to birth during this world-wide epidemic. Circumstances are changing daily, if not hourly in locations around the world. Many childbirth and parenting programs are now being presented in a virtual format to families. Educators have been scrambling to convert activities to an online format that builds confidence and prepares families effectively for their labor, birth and early parenting time ahead.
March 29, 2020 | by: Molly Giammarco, MPP
On March 27, the U.S. House of Representatives passed S. 3548, the CARES (Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security) Act, a ~$2 trillion economic relief and stimulus package for individuals, health facilities, states, and businesses affected by COVID-19. President Donald Trump also signed this bill into law on March 27, 2020, implementing the largest fiscal-relief packages in U.S. history.
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