Research and resources for perinatal professionals.
July 23, 2019 | by: Mallory Emerson, LCCE
This month's Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators is a fun charade type game that helps parents feel confident in identifying cues that it is time to feed their newborn. It has all the components of a great birth class activity - active, confidence building, fun and easy to conduct! Thanks to Mallory Emerson, a frequent contributor to our Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators' series, for this great idea.
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July 16, 2019 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, CD/BDT(DONA), LCCE, FACCE, CLE
Sharon Bowman, Training from the Back of the Room, is one of the great master teachers of active and engaged learning. Sharon often shares her theory: “Six Trumps: The Brain Science That Makes Training Stick.” I thought it would be appropriate to run a short mini-series of posts on activities and ideas for each of the “trumps” so that you can consider incorporating and/or increasing all six areas of learning into your classes for better retention. Today we cover "movement trumps sitting."
July 12, 2019 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
July 7th through 14th 2019 is recognized as Birth Trauma Awareness Week worldwide. Current estimates are that up to one in three people describe their birth as traumatic. It is the perception of the person experiencing the trauma that defines whether the experience is traumatic, rather than the perception of other people involved in the experience.
July 09, 2019 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
One of the valuable benefits for Lamaze International members is a subscription to Lamaze International's official journal - The Journal of Perinatal Education (JPE). The mission of the JPE is to promote, support, and protect natural, safe, and healthy birth through education and advocacy. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles and evidence-based, practical resources that childbirth educators and other healthcare professionals can use to enhance the quality and effectiveness of their care or teaching to prepare expectant parents for birth.
Through evidence-based articles, the JPE advances the knowledge of aspiring and seasoned educators in any setting-independent or private practice, community, hospital, nursing or midwifery school-and informs educators and other healthcare professionals on research that will improve their practice and their efforts to support natural, safe, and healthy birth.
July 02, 2019 | by: Jill Wodnick M.A., LCCE
As one of the largest Federal block grant programs, Title V (verbally called “Title 5”) is a key source of support for promoting and improving the health of the nation’s parents and children. The Title V Maternal and Child Health (MCH) Services Block Grant Program is a federal/state partnership, authorized under Title V of the Social Security Act to ensure the health and well-being of women, mothers, infants, children (including children with special health care needs), adolescents and their families. Originally authorized in 1935, Title V is the oldest public health program in our nation.
June 28, 2019 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
This new research: Giving Voice to Mothers: A national survey of the experiences of care during and after pregnancy and childbirth in the US focused on the experiences of birthing women of color who were planning to birth out of the hospital, defined as “community births”. These community births were planned to occur in either a freestanding birth center or at home. The demographics of these two group (people of color and community births) are traditionally underrepresented in past research projects focused on personal experiences, such as the Listening to Mothers studies did.
June 25, 2019 | by: Stacie Bingham, LCCE, CD(DONA), CBS
This month's Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators idea is written by the creative Stacie Bingham, who often contributes such fun activities. Stacie is so effective at making information both fun and memorable! Today's idea is a riff on birth choice cards or a birth plan activity that covers variations and interventions in labor very well.
June 19, 2019 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
In the early days and weeks after birth, the birthing person spends a lot of time with their newborn, getting breastfeeding/chestfeeding well established and recovering from childbirth with their babies by their side. Fathers and partners often can feel left out or excluded because of frequent nursing sessions and the comfort that babies get from being close to the birth parent. The following tips provide many ways in which the father or other parent can also establish a bond with their babies.
June 13, 2019 | by: Sharon Muza, BS, LCCE, FACCE, CD/BDT(DONA), CLE
Visit any workshop for new childbirth educators, or pop into a childbirth educator social media group anywhere on the internet, and you will find the most oft-asked question from those just starting out is “What are the most important items to have for teaching as a new childbirth educator?”
June 04, 2019 | by: Melissa Sablack Gonzalez, CD(DONA), LCCE
LCCE Melissa Gonzalez attends an Illinois Perinatal Quality Collaborative meeting and joins forces with other concerned professionals and health care providers to work on improving maternal and newborn outcomes in her state. Learn more about Perinatal Quality Collaboratives, Melissa's experiences and how you too can get involved.
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