The Pre and Postnatal Body A review of how to physically connect to the body during pregnancy and postpartum. Using breathing patterns, simple exercises, and posture cues improve overall strength, […]

The Psychobiological Nature of Infant Massage Nurturing and compassionate touch practices satisfies a basic human need for social and emotional survival that influences our very biology. Infant massage, as nurturing […]

Bonding is Our Lifeline: Bonding and Infant Communication : From the mechanization of birth in our recent history to the rise of maternal and infant mortality, the resurgence of natural […]

Impacts of Birth on Breastfeeding Breastfeeding is a journey that doesn’t always come naturally or easy. And we often look at breastfeeding as an event separate from the birth, yet the birth is integral to one’s breastfeeding journey. Intervention in labor can lead to difficulty with latching, weight gain, and the entire postpartum process. Epidurals […]

Loving Touch Preparation for Birth: A Form of Haptonomy Frans Veldman gradually developed a process of compassionately touching wounded and traumatized people after WWII in the Netherlands and discovered that it helped them heal faster. He named it “haptonomy” in 1960 and eventually applied it to pregnancy. Belgian psychologist Brigitte Dohmen worked in hospitals with […]

Perinatal Consultant Postgraduate Program in Hungary: A Brief Summary of the First 15 Years Providing personalized evidence based maternal care programs with proven better outcomes, those which incorporates humanistic approaches at individual caring level would plant inner peace and would undoubtedly persuade not only the perception but also the free the mental process and influence […]