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WOW – No Pressure Mom!
Abusive behavior is escalating in our “humane (?)” society. Why is it that a person has such controlling and abusive behaviors? Why is it that hurting someone violently occurs over and over? Why is it that an abuser has no regard for the pain and suffering inflicted on another human being? All of these occurrences can be often rooted in infancy with the lack of bonding, touching and attachment. When the infant is provided with skin-to-skin contact with mother he or she gets his or her needs met. That of comfort. “Someone is there to meet my needs.” When an infant becomes hungry and mother puts the infant to her…
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Birthing – Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow
Back in the 1940’s having a baby was a scary event for mothers. Mother’s called their doctors when they thought they were in labor. The doctor determined if Mother should come to the hospital. When mothers arrived at the hospital the nurse prepared her for Labor and Delivery. The nurse gave the mother an enema. This was done to keep fecal material from contaminating the vaginal area. The nurse then shaved the perineal area of pubic hair. Pubic hair was believed to be a source of bacteria. Fathers were allowed to be with the mother but had no idea what to do or how to support the mother during the…
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WOW – Love with Your Brain
The capacity and desire to form emotional relationships is related to the organization and functioning of specific part of the human brain. Just as the brain allows us to see, smell, taste, think, talk, and move, it is the organ that allows us to love-or not to love. The systems in the human brain that allow us to form and maintain emotional relationships develop during infancy and the first years of life. Experiences during this early vulnerable period of life are critical to shaping the capacity to form intimate and emotionally healthy relationships. Empathy caring, sharing inhibition of aggression, capacity to love and a host of other characteristics of a…
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Ready for Intermediate Fetal Monitoring
Intermediate Fetal Heart Monitoring is a 2 day course packed with lots of great information to empower you to care for a laboring mother. We will learn how to perform the Leopold maneuver on a gravid woman to determine fetal presentation, lie, and point of maximal intensity of the uterus for fetal auscultation with a pregnant manikin. We will learn how to place the fetal spiral electrode and the uterine catheter with a manikin with a vaginal canal. We will discuss the causes of abnormal fetal and maternal occurrences – remember the VEAL CHOP in Basic Fetal Heart Monitoring? Cheryl’s admission will be discussed. She will have…
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What’s the BIG Deal with Breastfeeding?! A lot actually…
To assist a new mother on breastfeeding was frustrating for me because I didn’t know how to teach the mother how to get her baby to latch and suckle. It was far easier to feed the baby formula. Newborns can present with a lot of difficulties in the first 24 hours after birth. We discuss more about the challenges Baby and Mom have to overcome in Adaptation of the Newborn and Postpartum – A Time of Transition. I have learned so much about breastfeeding and the advantages of breast milk versus formula and have become passionate about breastfeeding. I have learned the value of breast milk for the infant to have…
