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Lamaze International Launches “Bringing Home Baby” Online Learning Course

Lamaze International has just released the newest addition to their online learning modules available to consumers everywhere. Bringing Home Baby is the eighth course to be released since the Online...

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Lamaze International Launches “Bringing Baby Home” Online Learning Course

Lamaze International has just released the newest addition to their online learning modules available to consumers everywhere. Bringing Home Baby is the eighth course to be released since the Online...

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Exciting Webinar Opportunity! Expand Your Childbirth Class Offerings with...

Are you a childbirth educator looking to add a skill to your childbirth educator repertoire? Lamaze International is pleased to offer a groundbreaking continuing education opportunity that you can take...

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The Impact of “Advanced Maternal Age” on Pregnancy and Birth – An Interview...

Istock/aabejonRebecca Dekker, PhD of Evidence Based Birth released a new article today – “The Evidence for Advanced Maternal Age” which examines and summarizes the current research available on the...

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Series: Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators – Teaching the Tender Topic...

By Jen OlsonThis month’s Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators post is written by a new birth professional, Jen Olson, that I had the pleasure of meeting while teaching a birth doula workshop last...

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Making Sense of Advice about Drinking During Pregnancy: Part Two – The Message

By Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, Ph.D., M.P.A. As a follow up to the intense attention the recent announcement the CDC made last month on alcohol and women of childbearing age, Elizabeth Mitchell...

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Making Sense of Advice about Drinking During Pregnancy: Part One – The Evidence

By Elizabeth Mitchell Armstrong, Ph.D., M.P.A.Last month the Centers for Disease Control ramped up their warnings and released a new campaign to discourage any woman of reproductive age who is not on...

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Do Very High BMI and Gestational Diabetes Increase the Likelihood of Having a...

The research and interest in discovering what might be the underlying causes of autism continues to climb as the number of diagnoses of children and adults with autism increases every year.  Today on...

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Have You Considered Childbirth Education As a Career? Lamaze Certified...

Next month the Lamaze International exam to become a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator will be held April 13-15th all around the world.  The exam will also be offered for a second time this year in...

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Relative Risks and Reasonable Responses to the Zika Virus in Pregnancy – Part 2

By Rebekah Wheeler, RN, CNM, MPHBy Muhammad Mahdi Karim (www.micro2macro.net) FacebookYoutube– Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11185617The Zika virus and its...

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Relative Risks and Reasonable Responses to the Zika Virus in Pregnancy – Part 1

By Rebekah Wheeler, RN, CNM, MPHBy Muhammad Mahdi Karim (www.micro2macro.net) FacebookYoutube– Own work, GFDL 1.2, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=11185617The Zika virus and its...

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Series: Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators – Informed Consent/Refusal...

By Gabrielle VolkmerThis month’s Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators idea comes from Gabrielle Volkmer, an ICEA certified childbirth educator living in Lincoln, NE.  Gabrielle works hard during...

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Series: Building Your Birth Business – Lamaze Launches CBE Business Toolkit...

Lamaze International has been in the business of preparing childbirth educators to teach and share evidence based information about pregnancy, birth and parenting for almost 60 years. Lamaze has also...

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I Need a Do-Over! A Childbirth Educator Shares Some Less Than Positive...

© Sharon MuzaSometimes, as a childbirth educator, you have a class where everything goes right. You know what I am talking about, right?  All your jokes are found humorous by the families in your...

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What’s a Childbirth Educator to Do? Making Sense of the CDC’s Not-So-New (and...

By Cara Terreri and Sharon MuzaFor many of childbirth educators, the topic of precautions to take during pregnancy comes up early on in our childbirth classes.  I know I cover this information in week...

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Have You Submitted Your Abstract for the 2016 Lamaze International Conference...

Have you blocked out the dates of October 20-23rd and starting shopping for air fares?  Are you making sure your calendar is clear of work and personal obligations  so you can join hundreds of other...

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New Lamaze Online Course: Sex During Pregnancy and Beyond with Dr. Mary Jo...

Photo used under Creative Commons license. Photo owned by Llima Orosa.Lamaze International has created a very extensive selection of online classes for expecting families.  Currently there are eight...

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“Seeding” The Newborn’s Microbiome – Can We Do It? Should We Be Doing It?

By Anne M. Estes, PhD,  Illustrations by Cara Gibson, PhDIn recent years, there has been much discussion about the impact of our high cesarean rate and downstream affects on the baby, short and long...

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Op-Ed: Regulation of Doulas – A Simple Solution or Complex Conundrum?

By Christina Gebel, MPH, LCCE, Birth Doula @ Dianne HamreToday on Science & Sensibility, blogger and researcher Christina Gebel submits an Op-Ed piece in response to a recent Slate article written...

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Series: Brilliant Activities for Birth Educators – Stringing It Together

Every month, Science & Sensibility shares a post with a teaching tip or activity for you to consider using in your classroom.  This January is the one year anniversary of Brilliant Activities for...

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