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Pool Safety Campaign
Recently-released data from the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) shows that drowning in pools and spas is still a leading cause of death among children, with an average of 390 drowning deaths annually in the U.S. among children under age 14. The CPSC “Pool Safely” public education campaign works with partners around the country to reduce child drowning, near-drownings, submersions and entrapment incidents in swimming pools and spas. This year, Pool Safely’s focus is on populations most at-risk of drowning, including children under 5 years of age. Check out their Simple Steps Save Lives videos
Our bi-weekly Birth & Parenting News blog highlights the latest news items, research results, consumer alerts, and legislative action alerts of interest to expectant and new parents and the professionals who work them. From Center for the Childbearing Year.
My 9 Months-New app from March of Dimes
March of Dimes is proud to announce that the free iPad app, My 9 Months, has been approved by iTunes and is up in the App Store. Based on the award-winning My 9 Months magazine, the app offers interactive content, embedded video, and links to Web content and social media. A separate Spanish version, Mis 9 Meses is awaiting approval. Check it out.
Our bi-weekly Birth & Parenting News blog highlights the latest news items, research results, consumer alerts, and legislative action alerts of interest to expectant and new parents and the professionals who work them. From Center for the Childbearing Year.
Study links physical punishment to later mental disorders.
Children who are spanked, hit, or pushed as a means of discipline may be at an increased risk of mental problems in adulthood, from mood and anxiety disorders to drug and alcohol abuse, new research suggests. I believe that most parents don’t want to hit their children; they just believe they are out of options and don’t know what else to do. For alternate (and more effective!) methods of disciplining children, see articles on specific challenges at http://www.pantley.com/elizabeth/.
Our bi-weekly Birth & Parenting News blog highlights the latest news items, research results, consumer alerts, and legislative action alerts of interest to expectant and new parents and the professionals who work them. From Center for the Childbearing Year.
Protect freedom of choice regarding vaccines in Michigan.
Today I received the following email from Suzanne Waltman of Michigan Opposing Mandatory Vaccines (MOM). This is the consumer watchdog group in Michigan. “I am afraid we may be facing the loss of our vaccine exemptions in Michigan if YOU don’t come to Lansing when the House and Senate Health Policy Committees hear HB 5605 and SB 1185, which would preserve vaccine choice in the workplace. If we do not show up in large numbers (hundreds of us!), this will be a signal to big pharma, special interest groups, and lawmakers that we don’t care about our vaccine exemptions in the workplace, in school, or anywhere!” See two recent editorials from The Detroit News below:
From the Michigan Primary Consortium: “Health workers need flu shots” and Barb Skurnowicz’s response (representing HealthCare Professionals for Vaccine Choice): “No forced vaccine in Michigan.”
Please email Suzanne (momvaccines@gmail.com) if you want to be notified when the hearings will take place. And support MOM’s vigilance by joining now.
Our bi-weekly Birth & Parenting News blog highlights the latest news items, research results, consumer alerts, and legislative action alerts of interest to expectant and new parents and the professionals who work them. From Center for the Childbearing Year.
Supporting Healthy and Normal Physiologic Childbirth
… a consensus statement by ACNM (American College of Nurse Midwives), MANA (Midwives Alliance of North America) and NACPM (National Association of Certified Professional Midwieves). In 1996, the World Health Organization called for the elimination of unnecessary intervention in childbirth, yet currently there are few resources to assist maternity care providers in achieving this goal. The purpose of this consensus statement is to explicitly identify key benchmarks of safe, healthy, and normal physiologic childbirth. This statement will assist maternity care providers, women, policymakers, and payers to protect, promote, and support human childbearing physiology and to avoid overuse of interventions, thus achieving better care, better health, and lower costs….
This statement is placed in the context of the current, widespread application of technological interventions that lack scientific evidence to a primarily healthy birthing population. The use of obstetric interventions in labor and birth has become the norm in the United States. More than half of all pregnant women receive synthetic oxytocin to induce or augment labor, which demands additional interventions to monitor, prevent, or treat side effects. Nationally, one third of women deliver their babies via cesarean, a major abdominal surgery with potential for serious short- and long-term health consequences. For the mothers these consequences include, but are not limited to, postoperative infections, chronic pain, future cesarean births, and placental complications that can lead to hemorrhage, hysterectomy, and rarely, death. Infant risks include respiratory distress, and in subsequent pregnancies maternal risks include increased likelihood of preterm birth and associated morbidity and mortality. Regardless of intervention or outcome, childbearing care perceived by the woman as disrespectful or traumatic is more likely to be associated with maternal psychological morbidity and potential for disrupted mother-infant attachment.
Our bi-weekly Birth & Parenting News blog highlights the latest news items, research results, consumer alerts, and legislative action alerts of interest to expectant and new parents and the professionals who work them. From Center for the Childbearing Year.