Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
March 13, 2011 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
I get a particular kind of delight when I learn about someone who is willing to speak out about U.S. maternity care and yet isn't the typical stakeholder. You might know the type I'm talking about: not a midwife or a doctor or an activist for any agenda, not someone who was harmed or transformed by
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March 03, 2011 | by: Michael Klein MD
[Editors Note: This is the last in a series of three posts by Dr. Michael Klein regarding the research behind risks, benefits and realities of epidural analgesia. To read Dr. Kleins first two posts, go here and here.] Not all women are alike in labour and delivery: Because the experience of labou
September 02, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
The levator ani is a muscle, not a clinical outcome. Ok, ok, I've heard from enough of you about the study purportedly showing that epidurals protect the pelvic floor, I suppose it's time to write up what I think about it. First, a little about the study from the (overzealous) journal press release.
June 18, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
...is up! Go check it out at Giving Birth with Confidence. What a PHENOMENAL collection of contributions about the moments, hours, and days after birth. Each of our Blog Carnivals has vastly surpassed my own expectations. I hope you'll agree.
April 27, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the leading nonprofit organization working to accelerate change in healthcare, has been in the news this month because its CEO, Donald Berwick, was recently nominated to head up the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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
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
January 25, 2010 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Im going to be on Momotics Blog Talk Radio tomorrow evening at 10pm EST discussing the issue of transparency in maternity care with Danielle from Momotics. You can listen here. For the occasion, I thought I would dig up this fact sheet I wrote for Lamaze a couple of years ago when we first got
December 05, 2009 | by: Amy M. Romano, RN,CNM
Twice last week, analogies between sport utility vehicles (SUVs) and the organization of our maternity care system came up in blog comment discussions. In a spirited discussion between Katharine Hikel and AcademicObgyn.com's Nicholas Fogelson on Hikel's post, Disputed Territory, she proposed, "maybe
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
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