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Publication Date: 06/2016
Author(s): Julia Ingram
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Birth trauma in its many forms creates primal suffering for the infant which, if untreated, often leads to severe and unremitting anxiety into adulthood. Hypnosis has proven to be highly effective in assisting a sufferer to recover because it reveals the origin of the fear. When the origin is known–when a client can finally understand the “why” of it—then healing can begin.
Publication Date: 06/2016
Author(s): Ofra Lubetzky
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Fully human, personal, psychological, and relational life begins before birth, and constitutes the foundation for our basic feelings of security and trust. Two vital maturational/developmental processes begin before birth and continue thereafter: habituation and sleep-wake circadian cyclicity. These two processes, which are dependent on maternal-fetus/infant interaction, enable the fetus to adapt itself to extra-uterine life. Most habituation and circadian sleep-wake-rhythm studies have focused on physiological and biological characteristics.
Publication Date: 06/2016
Author(s): Jill Diana Chasse
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Prenatal depression is a serious issue often overlooked by both women and their healthcare providers. Depression during pregnancy not only causes sadness for the mother, it can also have significant developmental effects on the fetus, including altering of the baby’s brain structure leading to increased vulnerability for mood disorders in the child’s future. Additionally, depression during pregnancy may cause early delivery, increasing infant morbidity and mortality.
Publication Date: 06/2016
Author(s): Bernard Levinson
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This poetic reflection comes to us from Bernard Levinson in South Africa. In this article you will be transported to an idealized womb experience, as well as being invited to reflect on ways in which this experience is unconsciously expressed in language.
Publication Date: 03/2016
Author(s): Kimberly R Mascaro
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Investigation and insights into “announcing dreams.” This exploration of dreams which are perceived as communication with a “baby-to-be,” reports not only on the dream experiences themselves, but on the impacts of these dreams on pregnant mothers, expectant fathers, and others fortunate enough to experience this unique communication.
Publication Date: 03/2016
Author(s): Danica Anderson
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Danica Anderson, PhD, presents her work with South Slavic women over a ten-year period during which she investigated the devastating impacts of war on women, which has contributed to what Dr. Anderson terms “maternal fright.” In her words, “The Slavic term ‘maternal fright’ is carved from chronic wars and violence towards women and is a form of transgenerational trauma.” One more piece of the puzzle of how life experiences shape individuals, and are passed from one generation to the next.
Publication Date: 03/2016
Author(s): Janet B. Teodori
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This article focuses on the burgeoning understanding of the importance of the human microbiome to our overall health, especially exploration of the microbiome’s development and functioning during the prenatal period and birth.
Publication Date: 03/2016
Author(s): Neşe Karabekir
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Neşe Karabekir details the work of her and her husband, Dr. Hakan Coker, in Turkey (Birth with No Regret) and introduces the professional role of a birth psychologist.
Publication Date: 12/2015
Author(s): Jeane Rhodes
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Two phases of research into birth memory are presented here: 1) interviews with 2½ - 3½-year-old children re-garding their prenatal life and experience of birth, and 2) the results of dissertation research using body language to identify echoes in the body of prenatal and birth experiences.
Publication Date: 12/2015
Author(s): Kate White
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Dr. Wendy Anne McCarty is a global holistic educator, mentor, and practitioner serving professionals and families. She specializes in optimizing spiritual human potential and relationships from the beginning of life and repairing early-origin patterns at any age to transform lives now. Her work draws from pre and perinatal psychology, energy psychology healing modalities, consciousness studies, and authentic spirituality. She was the co-creator and Founding Chair of the Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology Program, Santa Barbara Graduate Institute.
Publication Date: 12/2015
Author(s): Mary Esther Malloy
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Increasing attention is being given to mechanisms by which environmental influences during early critical periods in human development have the potential to affect human health and well-being over the long-run. Appreciating how babies experience their environments during the sensitive period around birth could aid birth professionals and parents to help babies cope with and heal from adversity if it occurs.
Publication Date: 12/2015
Author(s): Michel Odent
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This chapter (excerpted from Dr. Odent's 2015 book, Do we need midwives?, provides an overview of the Primal Health Databank. Large-scale studies in the databank implicate the birth process and obstetric interventions in long-term outcomes, thus supporting the need for a paradigm shift
Publication Date: 12/2015
Author(s): Robert Bruce Newman
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Though obstetrics has been dominated by medical procedures for decades, the medical paradigm has been shifting, particularly through the inclusion of mind-body medicine, and new forms of childbirth practice and care have been evolving. Mind-body practice in childbirth is seen to have developed in three distinct stages, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Prenatal mind-body practices have emerged, supported by traditional meditation science and extensive contemporary research.
Publication Date: 09/2015
Author(s): OHKADO Masayuki
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The aim of this article is to report the results of an Internet-based survey conducted in Japan concerning the four types of children’s memories: (i) birth memories; (ii) womb memories; (iii) life-between-life or prelife memories (memories before conception); and (iv) past-life memories. A child having one type of these memories often possesses other types (Ohkado & Ikegawa, 2014). It is expected that analyzing these four types of memories simultaneously will shed new light on children’s psychology.
Publication Date: 09/2015
Author(s): Anna Humphreys
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A growing body of research indicates that high levels of prenatal maternal stress (PNMS) can have lasting negative impacts on offspring. This review examines current literature about the structural and physiological effects of gestational stress on the brain of the fetus.
Publication Date: 09/2015
Author(s): Ludwig Janus, Ludwig Janus
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One of the important differences between Homo sapiens and the other primates is the condition of pregnancy and birth. Because of the upright walk and the larger brain size of Homo sapiens, the birth channel became too narrow to accommodate birth after a long pregnancy. The evolutionary solution was the shortening of human pregnancy from about 21 months to only nine months. The consequence of this was the so-called “physiological prematurity” of human newborns.
Publication Date: 09/2015
Author(s): Elizabeth Soliday, Stefani Mammenga
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In the U.S. and other industrialized nations, the prevailing childbirth approach has been described as medicalized, a view in which safe birth is characterized as requiring specialized intervention. From the perspective that birth attitudes are largely enculturated, we assessed medical and natural birth attitudes among 1,467 nulliparous university women and men, expecting that pre-parents would endorse medical more strongly than natural birth attitudes. We analyzed data in subgroups categorized by sex, race, and future childbearing plans.
Publication Date: 06/2015
Author(s): Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
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Abstract: Birth is life-altering event. Under the best circumstances, it is a happy one. Labor and delivery can be empowering, with mothers feeling that they have accomplished something great. Unfortunately, birth can also be difficult, overwhelming, and for some, traumatic. Without intervention, childbirth-related trauma and PTSD can last for years, coloring how women feel about themselves as mothers, and potentially marring their relationships with partners and babies. Birth trauma and breastfeeding intersect in some key ways. Birth trauma can negatively impact breastfeeding.
Publication Date: 06/2015
Author(s): Charles Laughlin
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Publication Date: 06/2015
Author(s): Kerry Francis
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William Emerson, PhD, is a renowned and early pioneer in the field of pre- and perinatal psychology. He practiced pre- and perinatal psychotherapy for more than 40 years, specializing in regression therapy and developing and implementing methods for treating pre- and perinatal trauma in infants, children and adults. He was the first in the world to develop treatment techniques for infants, including psychotherapeutic interventions. He is a renowned workshop leader, writer, and international lecturer and has been active in promoting research and practice in pre- and peri-natal psychology.