Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
July 05, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Here are two great online learning opportunities that will provide value to you and ultimately your students. They can be done from literally anyplace in the world where someone had internet access. Consider it an opportunity to increase your skills in a quick and easy format.
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June 29, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Blueprint for Advancing High-Value Maternity Care Through Physiologic Childbearing aims to outline and promote "well-tested, evidence-informed strategies" that can be used as a guideline to address current systems that are failing childbearing families.
June 27, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
This fun and engaging teaching activity that requires inexpensive and readily available supplies. This activity demonstrates how a birthing person can use the support of their team and work with their body to move the baby through the pelvis.
June 22, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
The California Health Care Foundation (CHCF), California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative (CMQCC), and Consumer Reports have partnered to develop and launch My Birth Matters, an educational campaign aimed at informing expectant parents about cesarean delivery.
June 19, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Lamaze International's Jeanne Mendelson, Chief Operating Officer, and six Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educators will be headed to Tampa, Florida at the end of this month to exhibit at the Association of Women's Health, Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN) 2018 Annual Convention.
June 15, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
In the USA, Father's Day is traditionally celebrated on the third Sunday in June, which is just a few days away. I thought I might highlight some very successful specialized classes that are designed to increase confidence for fathers as they prepare to support the birthing person in labor.
June 12, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
A small but very positive study just released has demonstrated the ability to determine gestational age with a blood test as accurately as early ultrasound. Subsequent blood tests during the pregnancy appear to be accurate in determining who is at risk of delivering prematurely.
June 08, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Please join me in wishing Penny Simkin a happy birthday and a huge thank you for her contributions to the birth world for the past 50 years.
June 05, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
A just-published study shows that not only is it important what hospital a person chooses to give birth in, it is also very important to choose a provider whose attitudes favor vaginal births for their patients and clients.
June 01, 2018 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Class evaluations are a great resource to for childbirth educators to be sure that we are meeting the needs of the families we work with. What does one do when an evaluation indicates a dissatisfied customer? It is important to keep my perspective when a negative evaluation comes in.
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