Sentences with phrase «childbirth practices»

She created and taught the first course on the evolution of childbirth practices.

What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

In 1954 he conducted an extensive tour investigating childbirth practices of African tribes, which he described in his book No Time for Fear.

While the occasional husband may still think his laboring wife to be overtaken by demonic forces, natural childbirth practices toward the mother have changed.

Advancements in childbirth practices over the decades have resulted in women having more options in everything from how soon to find out if they are pregnant, to how they handle pain management in the final stages of delivering their newborn.

The technique was developed in the 1940s by French obstetrician Dr. Fernand Lamaze who was inspired by Soviet childbirth practices where the midwife encouraged breathing and relaxation techniques.

It contains interesting tidbits of information about childbirth practices, interspersed with general historical events.

«I was initially sceptical of the ability of an American childbirth educator... to provide any serious insight into the issues surrounding British childbirth practices.

Genevieve's new book The Mama Natural Week to Week Guide to Pregnancy & Childbirth is the first weekly guide out there (in my opinion) to really combine today's medical insight with the ancient wisdom of natural childbirth practices.

Passionate Journey: My Unexpected Life, by Marian Tompson, Just Released by Hale Publishing What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

Many natural childbirth practices will have a list of doulas that they have worked with.

Try to find a hospital that has childbirth practices that are supportive of natural birth.

Regular readers know that among all the supposedly «natural» childbirth practices, I reserve special contempt for unassisted birth.

On Saturday, he will share his vast and well documented knowledge of the powerful impact of bonding on the unfolding of human intelligence, at each stage of a child's development, from the moment of birth through adolescence, and why we must work together to make changes in our childbirth practices, our parenting and our education system.

That's just one way that pregnancy and childbirth practices have changed.