Nurture the Mother

Doula Support During the Childbearing Years

Doula Support for Women in Western MA, Pioneer Valley and the Hilltowns, including Northampton, MA, Amherst, MA, Easthampton, MA, Longmeadow, MA, Greenfield, MA, Hadley, MA, and Springfield, MA and beyond.

Summary: Mother-Baby Skin-to-Skin in the First Hour After Birth

Summary of Workshop held February 5, 2012 – Cradle Family – Northampton, MA

2010 Film: Skin toSkin in the First Hour After Birth: Practical Advice for Staff after Vaginal and Cesarean Births.

Purchase Skin to Skin in the First Hour After Birth, the companion film for parents: The Magical Hour, and other related educational materials on the first hour after birth at: Healthy Children's Center for Breastfeeding

Abstracts from the film: Categories of research include: Crying, Infant Body Temperatures, Physiological Stabilization, The Stress of Being Born, Self-Regulation, Natural Awakening of Breastfeeding Reflexes, Baby's Nine Instinctive Stages and more.

Linda Jablonski’s June 2011 article: Listening to Newborns: What Babies Have to Say About Transitions to Life. Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1552-6909.2011.0122_33.x/full

Tanya Lieberman’s blogs and research:

Benefits of skin-to-skin: http://www.bestforbabes.org/booby-traps-series-staff-motivation-can-get-in-the-way-of-kangaroo-care-and-skin-to-skin

Booby Trap Blog: http://www.bestforbabes.org/category/blog/booby-traps

MotherWear blog: http://breastfeeding.blog.motherwear.com

Breastmilk Lab at UMass: www.breastmilkresearch.org

Upcoming event:

Listening to Newborns , presented by Linda Jablonski, Monday, April 9, 2012; 6-8 p.m.; 361 Whitney Avenue, Holyoke, MA