Pregnancy & Birth

The Importance of a Positive Birth Experience  by Kaitlin Walsh – “Throughout the past few decades, research has been conducted on the birth experience in order to determine what factors influence a positive perception of the birth experience versus a negative perception….”

Making Babies Around the World a short film by Eliza Wierzbinska

Disenfranchised Grief After a Negative Birth Experience a slide show presentation by Rumyana Kudeva – “A qualitative inquiry into women’s lived experience of loss of the dream of birth.”

 

Broken Bonds in the Mother Infant Dyad slide show presentation by Ellynne Skove LCAT, BC-DMT, NCC, RPP – “All mammals need to bold for optimal growth…. ‘The Mother-Baby dyad is a single cell organism, and separation is life threataning.’ (Kaus)…. Bonding is the intense physical, emotional and spiritual connection between mothers, fathers and infants….”