Monday, April 9th, 2012
University of British Columbia professor Dr. Michael Klein and his team of researchers are working to develop a tool to help women evaluate the childbirth information they find online. The researchers are looking for women who are approaching their first birth to attend a focus group to give feedback on [...]
Thursday, March 22nd, 2012
We are so proud of our new patient handout “When labour starts… Early labour is a normal part of the birth process” that it’s going up on our fridge! If you are expecting, it should be up on yours too. We think it’s a great quick reference for labouring moms [...]
Thursday, March 8th, 2012
Nurses! This October, please join us for our “Nurses Driving Change for Normal Birth” Workshop. What you’ll learn: Tools to bring change to your workplace and community How to support and encourage mobility in labour with an epidural How you can support VBAC in prenatal and postpartum care IA fetal [...]
Saturday, January 7th, 2012
This thought-provoking article from the Slate.com discusses how China came to have the highest Cesarean rate in the world, and talks about some ways in which they’re now looking to reverse this trend in hopes of lowering this staggering statistic. The article starts by reviewing a survey of Chinese hospitals [...]
Monday, July 4th, 2011
Click here to download the consensus statement The 2011 Turning the Tide: Balancing Birth Experience and Interventions for Best Outcomes consensus conference brought together a diverse group of relevant stakeholders in maternity care to present and discuss evidence regarding the impact medical interventions, specifically electronic fetal monitoring, induction of labour [...]
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
BC Women’s Hospital and the Best Birth Clinic are currently conducting a randomized clinical trial (RCT) that will shed light on better ways to support women in labour. This trial is about the effects of doula support for women attempting a vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC). A doula is a [...]
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
We’re excited to announce the upcoming opening of the Best Birth Clinic at BC Women’s on Tuesday, September 7th, 2010. We will be seeing women for the very first appointments when they can meet with an experienced maternity care provider to discuss up-to-date, evidence-based information on the benefits and risks [...]
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
In order to make the technical information in the NIH statement released by the expert panel a bit more understandable, Lamaze has put together a team of maternity care professionals, as well as mothers, researchers and advocates, to write a guide for navigating the NIH recommendations. The guide will be [...]
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
Following the NIH Consensus Conference Panel statement on VBAC, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) released new VBAC practice guidelines. These guidelines are based on the latest research on the safety of VBAC, which was also reviewed and discussed at the NIH conference, and are less restrictive toward [...]
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
NIH Panel Statement on Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC), and a new guide to help navigate it! In March 2010, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Conference on ‘Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: New Insights’ was held in Bethesda, Maryland. Members of the BC Women’s Cesarean Task Force from [...]
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