Holly Powell Kennedy
Holly Powell Kennedy
This guest editorial explores the idea that our worldview, regardless of education, influences our childbirth practices, sometimes interfering with achieving the goals of our discipline. Over time, we have lost our ability to support women ...
Jill Hirschenfang
Jill Hirschenfang
In this birth story, a young mother relates her experience of moving beyond fear of labor and birth and developing confidence in her ability to give birth without an epidural. Knowledge and support, including the support of a doula, during ...
Wendy C Budin
Wendy C Budin
In this column, the editor of The Journal of Perinatal Education discusses how the media provide role models-good and bad-for pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding. There is a critical need for more positive role models that promote natural, ...
Stacey Wood
Stacey Wood
Herpes during pregnancy is a common concern. Because one in every five women is infected with the herpes virus, it is likely that herpes may be a topic that will be raised during a prenatal class, or afterward in private. An expectant mothe...
Renece Waller-Wise
Renece Waller-Wise
Umbilical cord blood was once thought of as a waste product. Now, years after the first successful umbilical cord blood transplant, more families seek information about whether or not to save their newborn's cord blood. Childbirth educators...
African American Women's Preparation for Childbirth From the Perspective of African American Health-Care Providers [0.03%]
从非裔美国保健提供者的角度看待非裔美国女性的分娩准备工作的相关研究
Christine Abbyad,Trina Reed Robertson
Christine Abbyad
Preparation for birthing has focused primarily on Caucasian women. No studies have explored African American women's birth preparation. From the perceptions of 12 African American maternity health-care providers, this study elicited percept...
Factors related to breastfeeding discontinuation between hospital discharge and 2 weeks postpartum [0.03%]
影响产后出院后2周内断母乳的因素分析
Elizabeth Brand,Catherine Kothari,Mary Ann Stark
Elizabeth Brand
Although breastfeeding is known to be beneficial to both mother and infant, many women encounter barriers to breastfeeding, even after successful breastfeeding initiation, which may put them at greater risk for early cessation of breastfeed...
Factors associated with exclusive breastfeeding 2 to 4 weeks following discharge from a large, urban, academic medical center striving for baby-friendly designation [0.03%]
大型城市学术医学中心产后2至4周纯母乳喂养的相关因素（该医学中心正在申请婴儿友好型医院称号）
Eileen Difrisco,Karen E Goodman,Wendy C Budin et al.
Eileen Difrisco et al.
Substantial evidence documents the superiority of breastfeeding for mothers and breastmilk for babies. Although the American Academy of Pediatrics and the U.S. Healthy People 2010 initiative promote breastfeeding, current breastfeeding rate...
Japanese Translation and Cultural Adaptation of the Listening to Mothers II Questionnaire [0.03%]
Listening to Mothers II问卷的日本翻译及文化改编版
Rieko Kishi,Beverly McElmurry,Susan Vonderheid et al.
Rieko Kishi et al.
The questionnaire used for the U.S. Listening to Mothers II survey was translated and culturally adapted to measure Japanese women's experience during the period of pregnancy planning through early postpartum. Methods included expert panels...
Mary Esther Malloy
Mary Esther Malloy
A doula and expectant mother's view of birth is forever changed when she sees a midwife simply place a newly born child below her mother at the moment of birth. The pause that the mother experiences in this moment as she studies, touches, a...