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Moving from Imagination to Reality – Achieving the CAPPA Vision

/ 5 minutes of reading / Business, Inspiration

The CAPPA Vision Imagine a world…Where women are encouraged to trust their bodies. Where myths about pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, and breastfeeding are dispelled. Imagine a world…Where women are given the tools they need to make informed decisions about their pregnancy, childbirth, postpartum, and breastfeeding experiences. Imagine a world…Where education does not use guilt […]

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Here and Now: Guiding Our Clients into the Present Moment

/ 6 minutes of reading / Educating, Inspiration / 1 Comment

The act of bringing your mind into the present moment—meditation, mindfulness, centering, or whatever term you use to describe it—is a tool we all have at our disposal to help manage stress and anxiety. But the term “meditation” can be intimidating to many, as it congers up an image of a robed Buddhist Monk or

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Supporting a New Mother’s Ability to Parent

/ 4 minutes of reading / Educating, Motherhood, Postpartum

Providing care to a new mother and her newborn is a privilege that should not be taken lightly as a healthcare provider.  Everyone that plays a role in either educating or participating in physical and psychological support must ensure the new mother feels safe and cared for in her ability to take care of her

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Studying the Microbiome

/ 4 minutes of reading / Educating, Lactation

A few months back a colleague sent me information on a local study being done at MIT titled “Breast Fed Infant/Toddler Stool Sample Study”. She thought I would be interested in reading more about it and possibly participating. The criteria was: Being 18 years or older Having an infant/toddler 2-36 months Having an infant/toddler that

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Challenges of the Childbirth Educator in a Hurry Up World

/ 6 minutes of reading / Educating / 3 Comments

What comes to mind when you think of childbirth classes? Women and their birth partners sitting around in a semi-circle listening for two hours while someone drones on and on about how birth unfolds? One evening a week for a few hours? Or the new one-day exhausting eight or nine hour marathon class? A few

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Flip or Flop: Flipping the Classroom to Engage Pregnant Families

/ 5 minutes of reading / Educating / 5 Comments

With the shift from parents taking in-person classes to using the internet for more of their prenatal education, childbirth and lactation educators have to step up their game.  With only 34% of pregnant families taking classes (Listening to Mothers III), we have to get creative to encourage new parents to find value in physically coming

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The Why and What of Natural Childbirth

/ 6 minutes of reading / Home Birth, Labor Doula

Anesthesia was first used for birth in 1847, 171 years, or roughly seven generations ago. In response to this, Grantly Dick-Read coined the term natural childbirth in the 1940’s. Before that it was just called birth, like organic food was just called food before Lord Northbourne coined the term organic around the same time. Natural

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A Book Review – Round the Circle: Doulas Share Their Experiences

/ 3 minutes of reading / Business, Educating, Home Birth, Inspiration, Labor Doula, Lactation, Postpartum, Self-Care

They say that experience is the best teacher. However, another person’s experience can be an even better teacher. That is the idea behind the collection of doula experiences by CAPPA Faculty Member Julie Brill, CCCE, CLD in her book, Round the Circle: Doulas Share Their Experiences. The title gives a great glimpse into what the

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