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Breastfeeding and Healthcare Professionals: A Review of Knowledge, Attitudes, and Experience Towards Breastfeeding
by Belinda Sharret-Stevens
Breast milk is the best and most complete source of nutrition available for the developing infant (American Academy of Pediatrics 1997). Scientific evidence has supported innumerable benefits of breastfeeding for both mother and infant. Healthcare professional play an important role in breastfeeding promotion and breastfeeding education (Freed, Clark, Curtis, and Sorenson 1995a). This article is a synthesis of healthcare professionals attitudes, knowledge, and experience regarding breastfeeding and breastfeeding practices.
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Lifetime Uses for Childbirth Skills
by Ann P. Lampron
The author uses her personal experience of a life-threatening illness as testimony to the value of the coping skills taught in most childbirth preparation classes. As she relates the stages of her diagnosis, treatment and recovery, she compares each step to a stage of pregnancy or childbirth and lists the coping skills that have helped her along the way.
Facilitating Learning With "The Baby Story" and Other Multi-Media Sources
by Carol M. Lynch
The author of this article presents the use of a popular television program as one of many sources of information for expectant parents. She also states that childbirth educators are one of the less threatening resources to provide accurate and unbiased information to those parents who want help in preparing to make informed choices for childbirth.
Postpartum Depression: The Most Frequent Complication of Childbirth
by Diane Sanford
Up to 90 percent of all new mothers will experience an episode of "baby blues," which lasts no more than the first six weeks after birth. However, if symptoms last more than six weeks and get worse, the woman may be having postpartum depression.
Ethical and Legal Issues in Reproductive Health: Considerations for the Childbirth Educator
by Ann Kane
As a childbirth educator, you may be called upon to guide a family in making difficult decisions for their reproductive health. The author provides some thought-provoking information for consideration by childbirth educators and other healthcare professionals.
Enhancing the Birth Experience: The Doula as Part of the Hospital Maternity Program
by Jeanette Schwartz
The demonstrated need for increased compassion in the health care industry and the recent redefinition of the client as consumer of health care services has given a greater impetus to involve clients in the birthing experience. Recent studies have indicated increased satisfaction during labor and birth when a doula is present.
Twenty-Five Years and One Hundred Births Later...
by Mary Beth Quinsey
When a woman has taught childbirth classes and attended births for over twenty-five years, she can begin to think she knows it all or perhaps has seen and experienced it all. But then she attends a birth, a beautiful home birth, and remembers the joy the newness of birth always brings.
Sterile Water Injections as a Unique Way to Relieve Back Pain in Labour
by J. Larry Reynolds
Severe back pain affects about twenty to thirty percent of women during labor. Sterile water injections have a good probability of relieving back pain when more traditional methods, such as showers, Jacuzzis, counterpressure or the birthing ball, have not provided enough relief.
Information Update
by Ann Behnke
Ayers, S., and A. D. Pickering. 2001. Do women get posttraumatic stress disorder as a result of childbirth? A prospective study of incidence. Birth 28, no. 2: 111-118.
Gill, S. L. 2001. The little things: perceptions of breastfeeding support. JOGNN 30, no. 4, 401-409.
International Issues
by Susan Elliott
Global Disease
Statistics
by Dale E. King
Trial of Labor and the Risk of Uterine Rupture
Political Issues
by Naomi Bromberg Bar-Yam
Two Rights Make a Dilemma: Ethical Questions in Stem Cell Research
Nutrition News
by Dvorka Monti and Lisa Kehler
I'm Not Fat -- I'm Pregnant!
Audio Visual Review
by Margery Simchak
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