Teaching and learning birth: help all to know

This guest editorial explores the idea that our worldview, regardless of education, influences our childbirth practices, sometimes interfering with achieving the goals of our discipline. Over time, we have lost our ability to support women through the process of childbirth so that they emerge as strong, healthy women. The high road ahead is to teach everyone, including ourselves, that we need to provide optimal, evidence-based care. Pursuing this path will take courage and commitment.     

Evidence-Based Maternity Care: Can New Dogs Learn Old Tricks?

In this article, a Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator describes her efforts to change the culture of birth in a community hospital in a small Midwestern town. Her experience highlights the challenges and the frustrations involved in creating change. The authors reflect on ways to enhance the success of change and advocacy strategies.     

Continuing Education Module: Persuasion: The Key to Changing Women's Ideas About Birth

Although standard maternity care is not evidence-based and, in many cases, increases risks for mothers and babies, few women make birth decisions that reflect this knowledge. This column discusses persuasion as a way to change women''s ideas about safe, healthy birth. The relationship between persuasion and choice is discussed, and the differences between presenting information and persuading women that natural birth is the safest and healthiest way to give birth are explored.     

我国城镇居家养老模式的现状与对策研究

居家养老是传统的家庭养老和社区养老相结合的新型养老模式,具有促进家庭和谐、保障老年人生活、吸纳就业等多重优势。目前我国城镇实行的居家养老模式存在着筹资渠道单一、服务机构单一、从业人员水平较低、老年服务得不到有效保障等问题。文章认为,引进竞争机制使无偿服务和有偿服务有机结合、构建社会保险型筹资模式,不断完善服务监督机制和进一步提高从业人员水平将成为我国城镇居家养老模式可持续发展的有效对策。     

Charlotte's Birth

A young mother shares her story of normal birth at home. Her story includes a thank-you letter written to Ina May Gaskin, who shared her wisdom in her book, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth.     

Witnessing a Natural,Safe, and Healthy Birth

In this column, the editor of The Journal of Perinatal Education discusses her experience witnessing a natural, safe, and healthy home birth. The editor also describes the contents of this issue, which offer a broad range of resources, research, and inspiration for childbirth educators in their efforts to promote normal birth.     

Preparing for the First Birth: Mothers' Experiences at Home and in Hospital in Australia

The aim of this research was to explore the experiences of a group of first-time mothers who had given birth at home or in hospital in Australia. Data were generated from in-depth interviews with 19 women and analyzed using a grounded theory approach. One of the categories to emerge from the analysis, “Preparing for Birth,” is discussed in this article. Preparing for Birth consisted of two subcategories, “Finding a Childbirth Setting” and “Setting Up Birth Expectations,” which were mediated by beliefs, convenience, finances, reputation, imagination, education and knowledge, birth stories, and previous life experiences. Overall, the women who had planned home births felt more prepared for birth and were better supported by their midwives compared with women who had planned hospital births.     

Jonah’s Birth

Rachel Goldstein shares her experience of exploring options related to care provider and place of birth early in her pregnancy. Goldstein and her husband, Marc, after reading and research, chose midwifery care and a home birth. She shares the story of a long labor at home supported by her husband, her doula, and her midwife. Her positive attitude, her ability to use various comfort strategies, and the support she received throughout labor contributed to being able to give birth naturally and ecstatically to her son Jonah.     

Role models for pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding

In this column, the editor of The Journal of Perinatal Education discusses how the media provide role models-good and bad-for pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding. There is a critical need for more positive role models that promote natural, safe, and healthy pregnancy and birth. The editor also describes the contents of this issue, which offer a broad range of resources, research, and inspiration for childbirth educators in their efforts to promote natural, safe, and healthy birth.     

日暮乡关何处是——贾平凹精神家园的追寻

精神家园是人们诗意栖居之地,贾平凹的文学创作表现出对失落的家园的苦苦寻觅．他对人类精神家园的探寻在作品中是从不同角度表现出来的,小说的家园意识体现了贾平凹对人文精神的关怀,对人类生存状况及传统文化与现代文化的双向思考,流露出了现代人对生存困境的文化焦虑和精神漂泊。     

How Do Women Who Plan Home Birth Prepare for Childbirth?

In this column, the findings of a secondary analysis of data from a larger qualitative study of the experience of home birth are discussed. The aim was to describe the ways in which women who plan home birth prepare for their births. The findings provide support for the idea of birth preparation and education occurring throughout pregnancy and describe the ways in which women planning to give birth at home develop confidence, plan for support, and make decisions related to the particulars of the labor and birth. Implications of these findings for childbirth education are explored.     

温庭筠生平事迹考辨

由于史料的佚失和温诗文言深旨晦之双重难度 ,温庭筠的生平仍有不少问题尚未论定。本文在辨析前人诸论说的基础上 ,通过对温诗文的剖析 ,对温庭筠的生年、寄籍及收养人等问题提出一些新看法 ,认为“淮南李仆射”是李珏 ,温庭筠当生于元和十一年 (816年 ) ;他的寄籍不是江南 ,而是关中 ;他早年丧父 ,为人收养 ,他的收养人不是温造 ,而是段文昌。     

从转型的视野探究我国新型居家养老模式

随着我国人口老龄化步伐的逐渐加快,老年人的养老问题越来越突出,受多种因素的制约,居家养老已成为大多数中国老人的首选。因此,从我国的国情出发,探究新型居家养老模式就显得尤其紧迫。这就要求我们在发展新型居家养老模式中,应发挥政府主导作用,规范社区功能;挖掘市场调节潜力,促进产业效应;依托专业队伍建设,培育服务内涵。