Landmark Lancet Series on Midwifery
A Larger Role for Midwives Could Improve Defiicent US Care For Mother and Babies
Julie Paul CNM and the South Shore Hospital’s Early Labor Lounge featured in Politico
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November, 2017
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The case against hospital beds
When the health care industry talks about hospitals, it tends to use the language of facility planners—one in which “patients” and “beds” are equivalent. This is the legacy of a very different era in medicine. Modern hospitals are historically rooted in the sanatoria and asylums of the mid-19th century, originally conceived to isolate patients with conditions such as tuberculosis and lunacy from the community, not to protect their rights. The move from open wards to closed rooms was perhaps the first major reform in hospital design—motivated by a need for isolation as our understanding of communicable diseases and infection control became more sophisticated.
Katherine Rushfirth CNM, the President of the MA ACNM, talks about the importance of hydration in pregnancy
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February , 2018
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Dehydration Can Cause Contractions During Pregnancy, as ‘Bachelorette’ Star Ali Fedotowsky Just Found Out
Pregnancy is filled with weird aches, pains, and twinges, and some are a little scarier than others. Former Bachelorette star Ali Fedotowsky recently had a particularly confusing experience with pregnancy pain—and it was so bad that she thought she was going into pre-term labor.
Fedotowsky, who is pregnant with her second child, wrote on her blog that she started experiencing “sharp pains in my uterus” when she was 26 weeks pregnant and initially wrote it off as gas pain. But the pain got worse and eventually started coming in waves, just like contractions.