Category Archives: Lamaze International

Is induction right for you? (Free Webinar)

Lamaze International is hosting a free webinar on deciding if induction of labor is the right decision for you.  This online webinar is geared towards moms. Be sure to pass this alone to your friends and family as well. This … Continue reading

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How do you find the right childbirth class?

This is a guest post from Doogie.  She’s newly pregnant with her first and has agreed to give us some insights on what’s she’s thinking and how she’s finding info in her pregnancy. Just so we get this out of … Continue reading

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Avoid Interventions That Are Not Medically Necessary

This is the health birth practice that gets me strange looks – why would anyone want to avoid medical interventions?? I truly think that people 1) aren’t stopping to hear the medically unnecessary part and 2) simply don’t trust birth … Continue reading

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Move, Walk Around & Change Positions Throughout Labor

Moving in labor is something that we don’t often think about these days.? After all, if you give birth in a US hospital, you walk in and see a bed.? If you were following the live birth on the Internet … Continue reading

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Healthy Birth Practices

Healthy birth practices sound like something everyone can get behind.? They are six things that have been determined by multiple medical and scientific centers and research to promote births that are safe for mom and baby.? What’s not to love? … Continue reading

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Lamaze Birth Network Grants

The Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth offers small grants to birth networks every year for projects that they are doing. ?The awards are between $500-1000. ?While the word grant might scare you off, these are very straight forward to do, … Continue reading

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Lamaze Discusses Cesareans with Medscape

Lamaze International’s President, Dr. Pam Spry, discussed cesarean section with Medscape recently. Here is a small excerpt: Medscape: Are rates of surgical delivery being driven up by women or clinicians? Is this the age of Blackberry birth — scheduling everything … Continue reading

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Birth Videos from Mothers Advocate

These great videos are based on the Healthy Birth Practices from Lamaze and InJoy Video.

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Lamaze Offers Birth Network Grants

Application Deadline: 5:00 p.m. (EST), Friday, October 17, 2008

The Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth was launched to support
initiatives that provide credible, relevant and useful information about normal birth to birth professionals and the public. A key initiative of the Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth is to support the development of grassroots, community-based Birth Networks. Since 2003,
the Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth has given numerous mini-grants to birth networks throughout the United States.

The Goals of the Birth Network Mini-Grant Initiative
The Birth Network Mini-Grant Initiative is designed to support the development or expansion of community-based networks that bring the public and birth professionals together to:

  • promote the Six Care Practices that Support Normal Birth and the Mother-Friendly Childbirth Initiative (MFCI)
  • improve the quality of maternity care locally
  • provide information and resources to expectant women and their families so that they can make informed choices about maternity care.

The Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth offers up to ten $500 to $1,000 grants annually to support established or emerging community-based Birth Networks in North America

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Lamaze- Building Confidence Weekly

Three weeks ago I signed up for Lamaze’s new Building Confidence Week by Week e-mails. So far, I have found them to be fantastic! Each e-mail has a little something written on preparation for labor and birth, a specific stage of birth, etc. The best part is the tone that they are written in. A lot of what is available on the internet is written to scare pregnant women. Lamaze’s e-mails are written the way you would expect – that pregnancy and birth are normal, natural parts of life. The other thing I have found is that when reading the e-mails I feel so much more positive. I get EXCITED about my baby’s arrival instead of dreading it as some literature has made me feel. So, overall, I give them four stars. What about you? Have you enjoyed them? If you haven’t signed up – you can do so here Lamaze Building Confidence Week by Week Continue reading

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