Case Report: Healing a Traumatic Birth.

One needs to recognize that the perinatal period is a vulnerable time where negative attitudes, words and actions can have an emotionally damaging effect on birthing women, who are especially sensitive to how they are treated, because of their high oxytocin levels. This case report depicts a traumatic birth in which the mother was needlessly separated from her baby and also harshly treated by the personnel, which had an emotionally devastating impact on the mother/baby relationship. This case report will demonstrate how psychotherapy was used to heal this distress.

The impact of childhood sexual abuse on childbearing and breastfeeding: the role of maternity caregivers.

This article is not a research study but rather a review of current understanding of the effects of childhood sexual abuse on the childbearing woman. Approximately one in four women has experienced early sexual abuse. Such a history can affect a woman's relationships with loved ones and care providers, contribute to her fears of labor and birth, and affect her ability to attach to her baby.

Academy of breastfeeding medicine founder's lecture 2009: Maternity care re-evaluated.

Abstract In the 1990s a rising tide of medical, surgical, and instrumental interventions served to make childbirth almost treated like a disease. This report supports a different approach to childbirth. A case and discussions of induction are presented.

#6: no separation of mother and baby with unlimited opportunity for breastfeeding.

In this position paper-one of six care practice papers published by Lamaze International and reprinted here with permission-the value of keeping mothers and their babies together from the moment of birth is discussed and presented as an evidenced-based practice that helps promote, protect, and support normal birth. The paper is written for childbearing women and their families. Babies held skin-to-skin with their mothers cry less often, breathe easier, and stay warmer than babies who are separated from their mothers.