Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
November 01, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
This month's Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators involves my best tips for acquiring materials for my Lamaze classes. When you are an interactive instructor, you look at all kinds of objects you see and wonder how you could incorporate them into your childbirth class activities.
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October 25, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Today the American Academy of Pediatrics released a new policy statement "SIDS and Other Sleep Related Deaths: Updated 2016 Recommendations for a Safe Infant Sleeping Environment." This has been well received, as the AAP discusses planning for sleeping with baby if it happens.
October 20, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Anne Estes, PhD reviews Let Them Eat Dirt, a book that talks to parents and parents-to-be in a friendly, often entertaining, non-judgemental way about medical and lifestyle choices that may influence their childs microbiome.
October 18, 2016 | by: Veronica Jacobsen, BA, CD(DONA), CLC, CPST, LCCE, FACCE
Veronica Jacobsen discusses how perinatal education can be a covered expense under state and private insurance plans. This topic is part of our occasional series "Building Your Birth Business." Having the ability to bill insurers may increase access to childbirth classes for more families.
October 13, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Today I am delighted to be interviewing ethnologist Kajsa Brimdyr, PhD, CLC, Lamaze Internationals fourth plenary speaker at the upcoming annual conference in West Palm Beach, FL next weekend. Kajsa is presenting Reality Versus Reality: The Nocebo Effect on Birth and Breastfeeding.
October 11, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Today, we meet Holly Powell Kennedy, Phd, CNM, FACNM, FAAN, who will be speaking at the 2016 Lamaze International Annual Conference about the need to remove barriers that prevent more low risk women from having vaginal births. Read her interview on Science & Sensibility.
October 04, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Today, we meet Beverly Woolery, MS, who will be speaking about effective teaching techniques and how educators can apply these principles to our childbirth classes at the 2016 Lamaze International Annual Conference.
September 29, 2016 | by: Stacie Marie Bingham, LCCE, CD(DONA), CBS
Stacie Bingham, LCCE, CD(DONA) is the creator of this months Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators. This activity helps families to feel prepared for what to expect during the different phases and stages of labor, including that potentially exhausting pre-labor/early labor phase.
September 27, 2016 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
In an effort to curb healthcare costs and increase quality, providers, payers, and policymakers are looking toward alternative payment models that realize a more effective and efficient healthcare delivery system. Lamaze is making sure that maternity payment models include childbirth education.
September 22, 2016 | by: Henci Goer, BA
The advance publication of an analysis of United States maternal mortality data back in August created a stir that has been reverberating through the internet ever since, spurred on by the publication of other relevant studies and a report during the same time period.
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