Science & Sensibility: A Research Blog About Healthy Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond
Science & Sensibility provides expert analysis of current research and trends in maternity care and is intended to improve the "research literacy" of birth professionals and childbearing women themselves. Topics include cesarean surgery, vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC), labor and birth care practices, obstetric interventions, breastfeeding and mother-infant attachment, childbirth education, and maternity care system reform. The blog is sponsored by Lamaze International.
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Feb 09, 12 06:00AMIn Part 1 we talked about how to help your client choose a prenatal yoga class; in Part 2, we will look at breathing, meditation and relaxation in a prenatal yoga class and how it’s beneficial t o...
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Feb 06, 12 09:24PMMost birth professionals know that yoga during pregnancy is of great benefit to expectant mothers. As both a certified prenatal yoga instructor and a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator, I ofte n...
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Feb 03, 12 10:53AMCall for Guest Community Manager of the Month Science & Sensibility is calling for bloggers interested in serving as the “Guest Community Manager of the Month.” This is a prime o pportunity...
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Feb 02, 12 01:24PMWalker: How does someone know they are a researcher? Cheryl: I guess it is when you get up in the morning and working on your research project is what you can’t wait to do. It is the part of you r...
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Jan 31, 12 08:39AMWalker: How did you discover your love of research? Cheryl: It began during my graduate studies at Yale University. There I received my masters in nursing degree plus became a certified nurse-mi dwife...
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Bed Rest, When Used for Anything Other Than Sleep Has no Proven Benefit and May, In Fact, Be HarmfulJan 27, 12 07:26AM“Bed rest is ineffective in treating anything” So reads the title of the clinical POEM presented in Essential Evidence (www.essentialevidence.com) in January 2000. The poem is a summary of a...
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Jan 26, 12 08:20AMIn this installment, Cheryl Beck discusses the importance of screening and education for preventing PTSD after childbirth. Walker: In your 2006 work with Jeanne Watson Driscoll, Postpartum Mood and An xiety...
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Jan 24, 12 12:51PMCheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, is a Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut School of Nursing and a certified nurse-midwife–having received both her certificat e...
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Jan 19, 12 09:37AMCheryl Tatano Beck, DNSc, CNM, FAAN, and Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor, University of Connecticut School of Nursing has published the majority of qualitative research regarding postpartum depression...
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Jan 12, 12 08:54PMIt’s that time again, folks: have you decided which conference(s) you’ll be attending this year to supplement your knowledge of perinatal issues, make new connections with professionals in your...
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