Improving Inequities in Prenatal Screening: Time to Modernize Guidelines
Professional guidelines can have a profound impact on reproductive health. In many cases, prenatal genetic screening is often only recommended for specific groups or individuals who have been historically recognized as high risk. Unfortunately,...
Maneuvering Through the Challenges of Shoulder Dystocia
Shoulder dystocia is a phrase that strikes fear in many of us – fear of it happening, fear of not managing the problem fast enough, fear of causing injury while trying to relieve it,...
Results of the 2019-2020 Midwifery Clinical Education Empowerment Project
In November 2019, ACNM and the Developing Families Center (DFC) introduced the Midwifery Clinical Education Empowerment Project. The vision of this project was to increase the capacity of the District of Columbia to support...
Weight Bias in Healthcare: We Can Do Better
Recent national attention combined with a strong body of evidence has recognized the deleterious impact of equating weight with health. For example, James Corden on the Late Late Show responded to a fat-shaming monologue...
Anxiety Symptoms and Severity Among Perinatal Women Screened for Depression with the Edinburgh Postnatal...
The Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale (EPDS) is a well-known screening tool for clinical use in identifying perinatal depression symptoms and risk for perinatal depression. Did you know the EPDS also can be used to...
Urinary Incontinence and the Role of the Midwife
Before addressing the role of the midwife in urinary incontinence, a brief review of kinds, causes, and risk factors is introduced. The role of the midwife, references, and four appendices follow.
There are several forms...
Changes in Home and Birth Center Birth During COVID-19
In March and April of 2020, our home birth practice phone rang constantly and email inquiries through our website came in multiple times a day. This immediate change in demand for community birth care pushed...
Oral Contraceptive Pills and Sexual Dysfunction
Oral contraceptive pills (OCPs), and other estrogen-containing contraceptives (e.g., ring and patch), are an excellent choice for some women and have many health benefits. Besides being highly effective contraception, they can decrease dysmenorrhea, menorrhagia,...
Stemming the Tide of Rising Congenital Syphilis in the United States: An Update and...
Aliza M. Machefsky MD1,2
1: Division of STD Prevention; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Atlanta, GA, USA
2: CDC Foundation; Atlanta, GA, USA
Congenital Syphilis — Reported Cases by Year of Birth and Rates of Reported...
Midwifery Burnout and the Importance of Work-Life Balance
I can remember exactly when I hit a wall and said I need a change in my life. I had been doing home births for three days in a row and just got home to...