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Expectations and the Childbirth Educator
by Ann Behnke
Through her own personal experience as a childbirth educator who has experienced an unexpected outcome of a premature delivery, the author details ways in which other educators can better prepare their students for similar experiences. She focuses on ways in which educators can encourage their students to have realistic expectations for their birthing experiences.
Unexpected Outcomes: A Birth Story
by Marcia N. Flinkstrom
The article describes the author's personal birth story. It is the story of her eighth pregnancy and the subsequent birth of a baby with Down's Syndrome. The author discusses how unexpected the outcome of this pregnancy was since she had decided against prenatal testing. She describes how, as both a childbirth educator and doula, the experience of giving birth to a disabled child has greatly affected her teaching as well as her approach to dealing with the topic of unexpected outcomes both in class and with her doula clients.
Feedback Analysis of a Multiple Birth Prenatal Education Program
by Julia Watson-Blasioli
This article describes and analyzes the feedback received from a sample of Ottawa-Carleton, Ontario, Canada mothers expecting multiples who attended specialized multiple birth prenatal classes. The results of the analysis provided initial information related to both the demographics of the population that attended these classes and their perceptions related to the quality of the program. Recommendations for the future to ensure delivery of a relevant and quality-driven multiple birth prenatal program are listed.
Update On High-Risk Pregnancy
by Marcella A. Hart
This article provides an update on the management of pregnant women with gestational diabetes, hypertensive disease, hepatitis B, or systemic lupus erythematosis. The author also discusses the current treatment for preterm labor. Important points for the childbirth educator are emphasized.
A Baby Dies....An Experience Shared from San Carlos, Philippines
by Caroline E. Brown
The author describes the care of a family following the stillbirth of their infant. In a series of photos, she shows the care of the infant after birth/death and preparation for the journey home with family members for burial.
Higher Order Multiple Births and the Importance of Childbirth Education
by Patter Cross
Childbirth education is extremely important and beneficial to parents expecting higher order multiples even though both parents and physicians may feel otherwise because mom will just be having a cesarean birth. This article suggests ways that childbirth educators can inform families and physicians about the benefit of childbirth education and lists suggestions for class content. Resources available to physicians, educators, and parents about higher order multiples are discussed.
The Preventable Cesarean Section: New Distinctions and New Possibilities
by Mayri Sagady
The author introduces the concept of the preventable cesarean section, one in which, while medically justified at the time of the actual procedure, may have been potentially prevented earlier in the labor by initiating certain interventions (or abstaining from others) which could influence the factors that ultimately led to the need for the cesarean. She discusses the change in cesarean rates in the United States since 1970, and suggests ways childbirth educators may create their own personal initiatives to safely reduce cesarean sections.
Unexpected Outcomes in the Childbearing Cycle: How the Doula and Childbirth Educator Can Help at the Time of Crisis
by Caroline E. Brown
The author discusses examples of unexpected outcomes during the childbearing year and how families may react. She explains the role of the doula and childbirth educator at the time of crisis. Ways to provide information to grieving families, encourage them to participate in child care activities, and help them create memories of their infant are detailed.
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Grieving and Loving
by Andrea L. Schaffer
This article provides some insight to the thoughts and feelings a person may experience when their child has died. While no two situations are exactly the same, just as in childbirth, there are common factors in grief work. Foremost in the minds of bereaved parents is the fear that their child will be forgotten. The author suggests ways that health care professionals can support grieving families and remember their child with them.
Effects of Abuse on Childbearing Women
by Debbie Lavin
This article examines the impact of abuse on the woman during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum. The author explains the cycle of abuse and its many facets.The role of the care provider in helping the victim on the path to healing is discussed.
Political Issues
by Naomi Bromberg Bar-Yam
Planning for the Unexpected: Cord Blood Banking
Resources
by Linda Uhrich
Unexpected Outcomes
Information Update
by Ann Behnke
Hill, P. D., J. C. Aldag, and R. T. Chatterton. 1999. Breastfeeding experience and milk weight in lactating mothers pumping for preterm infants. Birth 26, no. 4: 233-238. Fuentes-Afflick, E., and N. A. Hessol. 2000. Interpregnancy interval and the risk of premature infants. Obstetrics and Gynecology 95, no. 3: 383-390.
Audio Visual Review
by Margery Simchak
SIDS: Reducing the Risk
Healthy Lifestyles
by Ana Lopez-Dawson
For Crying Sake
Statistics
by Dale King
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