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The labor progress handbook : early interventions to prevent and treat dystocia
“This…edition is timely, useful, well organized, and should be in the bags of all doulas, nurses, midwives, physicians, and students involved in childbirth.” – Journal of Midwifery and Women’s Health
The Labor Progress Handbook: Early Interventions to Prevent and Treat Dystocia is an unparalleled resource on simple, non-invasive interventions to prevent or treat difficult or prolonged labor. Thoroughly updated and highly illustrated, the book shows how to tailor one’s care to the suspected etiology of the problem, using the least complex interventions first, followed by more complex interventions if necessary.
This new edition now includes a new chapter on reducing dystocia in labors with epidurals, new material on the microbiome, as well as information on new counselling approaches specially designed for midwives to assist those who have had traumatic childbirths.
Fully referenced and full of practical instructions throughout, The Labor Progress Handbook continues to be an indispensable guide for novices and experts alike who will benefit from its concise and accessible content.
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Pain, Suffering, and Trauma in Labor and Prevention of Subsequent Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
In this column, Kimmelin Hull, community manager of Science & Sensibility, Lamaze International's research blog, reprints and discusses a recent blog post series by acclaimed writer, lecturer, doula, and normal birth advocate Penny Simkin. Examined here is the fruitful dialog that ensued-including testimonies from blog readers about their own experiences with traumatic birth and subsequent posttraumatic stress disorder. Hull further highlights the impact traumatic birth has not only on the birthing woman but also on the labor team-including doulas and childbirth educators-and the implied need for debriefing processes for birth workers. Succinct tools for assessing a laboring woman's experience of pain versus suffering are offered by Simkin, along with Hull's added suggestions for application during the labor and birth process.
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What Makes a Good Birth and Why Does it Matter?
The birth experience does not end when the baby is born. Women remember their children's births all their lives. They deserve to look back on their childbirths with satisfaction. This paper describes and differentiates among good, great, disappointing, and traumatic birth experiences. The discussion includes elements that contribute to a good experience, before, during, and after the birth. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Childhood Abuse as Loss
Child abuse causes much pain, confusion, and sadness to the child as she grows up. This paper explores abuse as loss, as manifested particularly during the childbearing year. Great potential for healing exists when there is good communication between the woman and her caregivers, along with sensitive individualized care. Furthermore, birth counseling offered by experienced childbirth educators and doulas is a valuable service to improve abuse survivors' experiences of birth. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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How Birth Doulas Help Clients Adapt to Changes in Circumstances, Clinical Care, and Client Preferences During Labor
This study examined how doulas adapt to challenges in client's labors. There were 104 Canadian and 92 American doulas who responded to a survey distributed at a doula conference. We report results from open-ended questions in which doulas describe how they manage changes deviating from the mother's birth plan and how they navigate differences of opinion between themselves and providers. Four themes emerged: giving nonjudgmental support, assisting informed decision making, acting as a facilitator, and issues with advocacy. Although 30% of doulas said that advocacy and information giving could result in conflict with providers, doulas reported working within their scope of practice and striving to be part of the team. Issues in doula responsibility and patient advocacy remain, and ongoing role clarification is needed.
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Why Keep On Keeping On?
As a noted author of childbirth education articles, books, and videotapes, Penny Simkin muses over the changes in maternity care during her career and the lessons she has learned. She searches for reasons to keep on working to bring normal birth to women, especially in an era when medical intervention based on editorials rather than evidence continue to increase.
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Supporting the Laboring Woman Without Injuring Oneself
The physical demands placed on labor support people, such as birth partners and birth doulas, are perhaps greater than on anyone else on the birth team, with the exception of the birthing mother. This article outlines nine guiding principles of self care and body mechanics to reduce the likelihood of injury to the labor support person. We have identified eight common labor support tasks and have photos demonstrating the improper and proper way of performing these tasks. Childbirth educators can help impart this knowledge to birth partners by weaving these guidelines throughout their childbirth preparation classes, while correctly modeling the safest way to perform these important tasks. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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