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Celebrating Mother’s Day: Part One: Infant Attachment
This is a guest post by Jessica Zucker, Ph.D. Part One: Fortifying Parenthood: Infant Attachment Part One is about managing expectations about infant attachment and how to foster the infant bond Infant...
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Celebrating Mother’s Day: Part Two: Infant Attachment
this is a guest post by Jessica Zucker, Ph.D. Part Two: Fortifying Parenthood: Know Yourself Part Two is about the importance of knowing yourself as a step towards developing healthy parenting...
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Spotlight on Dads: Part One, Paternal Postnatal Depression
As we approach Father’s Day, on Sunday, June 17th, many fathers will be celebrating this special day for the first time. Kathy Morelli interviews Dr. Courtenay in a two part series on Paternal...
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Spotlight on Dads: Part Two, Paternal Postnatal Depression
Part Two of Kathy Morelli’s interview with William Courtney, PhD, LCSW, about Paternal Postnatal Depression – Consequences and Support. Part One: Paternal Postnatal Depression – Signs and Causes can...
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A Married CBE Team Supports Couples Prenatally with Lamaze Classes – An...
Today’s Science & Sensibility post is written by regular contributor, Kathy Morelli. To learn more about Kathy, please check out our contributor page or visit her at her website. Lamaze Childbirth...
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Part One of Two: EMDR as a Treatment Modality for Post-traumatic Stress...
Today’s post, the first of two, is written by regular contributor, Kathy Morelli, and provides some insight into a mode of therapy, EMDR, that can help women deal with birth trauma . Are you a...
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EMDR Part Two: Clinical Opinions Regarding the Safety of using EMDR to...
Today, Kathy Morelli shares the second part of her series on EMDR, and exams clinical opinions on the safety of EMDR as a treatment modality. You can find part one of Kathy’s post on EMDR here. – SM...
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EMDR Part Three: Listening to Women; Personal Experiences of EMDR for...
In this series about EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing), Part One looked at qualitative research evaluating EMDR as treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder (childbirth onset). In...
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The I-Baby: A Baby’s Brain On Technology
Regular contributor Kathy Morelli takes a look at babies and media and technology exposure. If you are working with expectant families or with families parenting young children, you have an...
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What is Pregnancy Negation? What is the Childbirth Professional’s Role?
Today on the blog, regular contributor Kathy Morelli shares information on an uncommon but very serious mental health disorder called pregnancy negation (pregnancy denial and pregnancy concealment)...
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A Functional Medicine Approach to Perinatal Mental Health – Part One
In a two part post this week, regular contributor Kathy Morelli shares information about and an interview with Kelly Brogan, MD on her nontraditional approach to working with women who are dealing...
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A Functional Medicine Approach to Perinatal Mental Health – Part Two
In a two part post this week, regular contributor Kathy Morelli shares information about and an interview with Kelly Brogan, MD on her nontraditional approach to working with women who are dealing with...
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Childhood Sexual Abuse as a Risk Factor for Postpartum Depression – Part 1
Childhood sexual abuse can play a key role as a risk factor for postpartum depression. Kathy Morelli takes a look at the impact of this horrible childhood event on a woman during her childbearing...
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Childhood Sexual Abuse as a Risk Factor for Postpartum Depression- Part 2:...
© CC Smoochi: http://flickr.com/photos/smadars/4758708634 Kathy Morelli, perinatal mental health expert and S&S contributor is sharing information about the impact of childhood sexual abuse on...
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One of a Kind: An Interview with Dr. Meltzer-Brody about UNC’s Inpatient...
As Postpartum Support International’s 2014 Annual Conference kicks off this weekend in Chapel Hill, NC, regular contributor Kathy Morelli shares her interview with Dr. Samantha Melzter-Brody as Kathy...
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Kathy Morelli Shares Highlights from the 2014 Postpartum Support...
Regular contributor Kathy Morelli attended the Postpartum Support International conference in Chapel Hill, North Carolina this past month. In today’s post, Kathy shares her thoughts, some big...
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Lamaze International Press Release on Research on New Cesarean Rate Guidelines
Last week, professionals, including childbirth educators, involved in the maternal infant health field read with great interest a just released paper that examines the “optimal” cesarean rate that...
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Series: Building Your Birth Business – Using Google Alerts
At times, the internet can feel like a very large place. The amount of information available to us at any one time almost seems too much and too big to handle. As a birth professional who writes and...
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Lamaze International Brings Maternal-Child Health Stakeholders Together to...
On Monday, December 7th, Lamaze International convened 13 representatives from government and healthcare organizations to its Roundtable in Washington, D.C. to discuss the role that evidence based...
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Interview with Neel Shah, MD, MPP – Co-Author of the Just Released Cesarean...
A recent research paper, Relationship Between Cesarean Rate and Maternal and Neonatal Mortality was published on December 1, 2015 in the Journal of American Medical Association (JAMA). This new study...
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