Barbara Hotelling

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · April 2019 All women should be allowed and encouraged to bring a loved one, friend, or doula to their birth without financial or cultural barriers. Continuous labor support offers benefits to mothers and their babies with no known harm. ... Full text Cite

Educational preparation for pregnancy, childbirth, and parenthood

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How To Become Mother-Friendly: Policies and Procedures for Hospitals, Birth Centers, and Home Birth Practices. Hotelling, B., and Gordon, H.G., editors. (2014). Springer Publishing Co.

Book · April 14, 2014 This is the only book to present the evidence-based policies and procedures that medical and non-medical staff can use to develop Mother-Friendly Care in their facilities. The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI), developed by the Coalition For Im ... Cite

Healthy birth practice #3: bring a loved one, friend, or doula for continuous support.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2014 All women should be allowed and encouraged to bring a loved one, friend, or doula to their birth without financial or cultural barriers. Continuous labor support offers benefits to mothers and their babies with no known harm. This article is an updated evi ... Full text Cite

The nocebo effect in childbirth classes.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2013 Patients are well-known to experience a placebo response to medications or treatments. It is less well-known that they can also experience a nocebo response where they have negative effects from something that should be ineffective. In recent literature, t ... Full text Cite

Continuing education module top 10: tips on teaching lamaze classes.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2012 Lamaze classes should help women think differently about birth, dispel myths, and ultimately make informed decisions that are right for them. In the current maternity care environment, this is a monumental task. In this column, the authors discuss 10 teach ... Full text Cite

The Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator's Role in Teaching Survivors of Childhood Sexual Abuse.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2012 There is a strong likelihood that at least one participant in any Lamaze childbirth education class has had personal experience with childhood sexual abuse. Using the wisdom of Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educators and respected authors in the field of chi ... Full text Cite

Considerations when using videos in lamaze classes.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2012 There are enough worthwhile videos available today so that a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator could literally teach an entire class series using only videos and feedback discussion. In this column, the author explores considerations in choosing videos ... Full text Cite

Continuing education module styles vary when teaching expectant parents about medications.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2012 In this column, the author presents information from prominent Lamaze childbirth educators and from the literature to describe various options that educators can share with expectant parents regarding the use of pain relief medications during labor and bir ... Full text Cite

Evoking the power of learners.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2011 Our mandate, as Lamaze International childbirth educators, is to assist women in making healthy pregnancy, birth, and parenting choices. Being mindful of health promotion theory and using learning tasks and dialogue education to provide information creates ... Full text Cite

Teaching in a patient-centered medical home.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2011 Teaching Lamaze International classes in a patient-centered medical home allows the childbirth educator the best environment for giving evidence-based information and empowering parents to give birth their way. Patient-centered medical home facilities and ... Full text Cite

What once was old is new again.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2010 Through seminars and continuing educational opportunities, recently certified Lamaze childbirth educators beginning their teaching careers have learned of the changes in birth practices over the past 50 years. However, they may not have heard the personal ... Full text Cite

The power of numbers: transforming birth through collaborations.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2010 Collaborative efforts and coalitions have replaced exclusivity as birth organizations and individuals unite to humanize birth and provide women with transparency of information about maternity care providers and facilities and about access to the midwifery ... Full text Cite

From psychoprophylactic to orgasmic birth.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2009 The assumptions on which educators based childbirth education principles were valid when psychoprophylactic birth became available. Yet, educators and health-care providers have changed their assumptions about birth as they have learned more from the midwi ... Full text Cite

Teaching normal birth, normally.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2009 Teaching normal-birth Lamaze classes normally involves considering the qualities that make birth normal and structuring classes to embrace those qualities. In this column, teaching strategies are suggested for classes that unfold naturally, free from unnec ... Full text Cite

Perinatal needs of pregnant, incarcerated women.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2008 Pregnant prisoners have health-care needs that are minimally met by prison systems. Many of these mothers have high-risk pregnancies due to the economic and social problems that led them to be incarcerated: poverty, lack of education, inadequate health car ... Full text Cite

How Well Do Your Provider's Practices Match the Evidence?

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2007 The handout presented in this article can be used by expectant parents to compare the evidence-based, expected occurrence of routine interventions with the usual care given by their chosen provider and place of birth. The known occurrence of these routine ... Full text Cite

Commentary: the coalition for improving maternity services:.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2007 A consumer advocate, two childbirth educators, and a certified nurse-midwife each provide commentary on the effectiveness of and potential uses for the Evidence Basis for the Ten Steps of Mother-Friendly Care. ... Full text Cite

Care practice #3: continuous labor support.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2007 This updated edition of Care Practice Paper #3 presents the evidence for the benefits of continuous support in labor. The role of the doula is explained. Women are encouraged to plan for continuous support during labor and to consider including a woman exp ... Full text Cite

The coalition for improving maternity services: evidence basis for the ten steps of mother-friendly care.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2007 One factor explaining why women choose unnecessary high-tech births is their lack of knowledge of the research. Presenting research in Lamaze class can be difficult; however, teaching tools described in this article may help facilitate evidence-based discu ... Full text Cite

Normal birth crossword puzzle.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2006 In this column, readers are introduced to Dawn Kersula and a crossword puzzle she designed to refresh and empower Lamaze childbirth education class participants with normal-birth information. The column's author goes on to demonstrate several ways crosswor ... Full text Cite

Using the official lamaze guide in childbirth education classes.

Journal Article The Journal of perinatal education · January 2006 Normal birth has long been promoted by Lamaze International in its mission and vision statements and by the Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth. The Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth with Confidence, a book by Judith Lothian and Charlotte DeVries, can be u ... Full text Cite

Is your perinatal practice mother-friendly? A strategy for improving maternity care.

Journal Article Birth (Berkeley, Calif.) · June 2004 The purpose of the questionnaire, "Is Your Perinatal Practice Mother-Friendly?" is to provide health practitioners with an evidence-based tool that can be used to improve maternity care. The Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative is a consensus document pro ... Full text Cite