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25.01.2022 Gender equality in parenting and CBE - free webinar! CAPEA VIC branch invites you to join us from the comfort of your home for a conversation around promoting Gender Equality through Childbirth and Parenting programs for first time parents on April 23rd, 7 pm. The webinar will:... Discuss our own Understanding of Gender equality and why it is relevant to child birth educators. Consider why there is a focus on the transition to becoming parents for the first time? Introduce you to a Childbirth and Parenting Educators Toolkit of activities you can use in your programs with families to provide key messages to help build healthy and respectful relationships. We hope this to be an interactive session with opportunity to present your thoughts and ideas thoughout. Presenters: Anita Thomas and Marie Treloar from the Baby Makes 3 team at Carrington Health. See you on April 23rd at 7 pm. Replay will be available to those who sign up! https://mailchi.mp/8a75137bf36b/genderequity

25.01.2022 It was a workout!

23.01.2022 As childbirth educators we are hearing a lot of questions about using heartbeat monitoring apps and dopplers, some info to consider providing:

22.01.2022 This year we have traditional biannual CAPEA conference - but in virtual format instead of New Castle. While offline conference is something we are looking forward every two years, online makes it easier and less expensive to attend from Victoria - less reasons not to. Learn more about the program and register: https://www.capeaconference.org/speakers-and-program

21.01.2022 We are lucky enough to be organising a webinar with Clinical Psychologist, Kate Taylor, from Valley Family Health! Kate supports many health professionals in their work and debriefing challenging situations, as well as supporting parents in the intense early parenting phase. We be discussing how to support our own mental health during COVID times, as well as how to assist, support and families in their mental health and coping. ... Also how and when to refer parents for more intensive support and gain some insight into what families are really struggling with at the moment. Do you have a question around mental health or coping that youd love to ask? Or do you have a special way of finding joy in the everyday moments, during these strange times? Post below or PM us via the Vic Branch page

21.01.2022 Preparing parents for what it is normal may be the most long lasting outcome of childbirth education!

20.01.2022 A way to enhance parenting experience right from the start! Skin to skin rewires dad's to be more nurturing and engaged https://www.romper.com/p/this-study-shows-just-how-importan

19.01.2022 4 weeks until Dancing for birth instructor training in Melbourne! More opportunities for chilbirth educators and for parents for empowerment and well-being! Message for details if you are interested!

18.01.2022 Engagement is the key for any learning. Some tips:

18.01.2022 This Sunday in Melbourne, join us for yummy food, learnings and community building, FREE for CAPEA members.

18.01.2022 Please participate and share!

17.01.2022 Not so secret ingredient to the happy postpartum!

16.01.2022 PANDA week ends today, but we will keep spreading awareness.

16.01.2022 Great project "timeless birth" show us how birth culture is evolving from ancient times:

16.01.2022 A great event on a topic many childbirth educators struggle to find the balance on: https://www.facebook.com/events/476771633014436/

16.01.2022 17 May is an International Day Against Homophobia, Transphobia and Biphobia. Nothing helps more than such personal stories to see people, their hopes and fears, strength and vulnerabilities, and not lables. Many thanks to this couple, who shared their birth story with us.

15.01.2022 Whats the hardest thing about this standard for childbirth educators?

15.01.2022 How do you help create respectful and efficient relationship with care providers in labour? Research shows it is one of 4 main factors of childbirth satisfaction! Do you clients need to:... be reminded or even find out that this is what that they can ask for? learn or practice communication techniques that help to achieve that? know how to choose birth team to improve chances of this happening? what else? #cbeoutcomes #capeavic #childbirtheducationtips

13.01.2022 Can we help this Melbourne research? Key points: The Murdoch Childrens Research Institute is seeking 1,700 infants aged between six and 12 weeks to take part in the five-year trial Previous research showed vitamin D deficiency may play a role in children developing food allergies - and this is a much needed large clinical trial to see whether taking a daily drop of vitamin D over the first year of life can help prevent food allergies. The children will be given a daily ...drop of vitamin D to test whether the supplement can prevent food allergies from developing A free allergy test will be given when the child turns one to test for the 12 most common childhood allergens, including nuts, eggs and cows milk See more

12.01.2022 A way to enhance parenting experience right from the start! Skin to skin rewires dads to be more nurturing and engaged https://www.romper.com/p/this-study-shows-just-how-importan

11.01.2022 Can we help this Melbourne research? Key points: The Murdoch Children's Research Institute is seeking 1,700 infants aged between six and 12 weeks to take part in the five-year trial Previous research showed vitamin D deficiency may play a role in children developing food allergies - and this is a much needed large clinical trial to see whether taking a daily drop of vitamin D over the first year of life can help prevent food allergies. The children will be given a daily ...drop of vitamin D to test whether the supplement can prevent food allergies from developing A free allergy test will be given when the child turns one to test for the 12 most common childhood allergens, including nuts, eggs and cow's milk See more

10.01.2022 One more week until the training! Last chance to join for a new way to support moters on their way to empowered births:

09.01.2022 What is the best advice you have received as a new parent?

09.01.2022 Long awaited launch of Rhea Dempsey Birthing Wisdom's new book is happening online on Wednesday September 23rd, 6.30 pm Rhea Dempsey and Dr Sarah Buckley will be talking about‘Beyond the Birth Plan: getting real about pain and power’ at the Avid Reader Bookstore - not to be missed! You can follow the link to register via the Avid Reader event page here: https://avidreader.com.au//rhea-dempsey-beyond-the-birth-p

08.01.2022 A great tip to share with parents who need to pump and stressed over their ability to pump enough! Source: Milk and Motherhood

08.01.2022 CAPEA Victorian Branch workshop today, with Nicole from Birthing From Within We traced our labyrinths of birth and early parenting, felt the icy discomfort and travelled the path into the underworld and back out again Connecting with other childbirth and parenting educators, doulas and birthworkers is always an energising experience ... #childbirthandparentingeducators #capea #capeavicbranch #doula #cbe #birth #birthwork #cpd #connection

07.01.2022 Note latest research on Early onset group B streptococcus (GBS) by Farah Seedat and colleagues published in 2019 in BMJ Key messages: Early onset group B streptococcus (GBS) disease is an important health problem and efforts should continue to better understand and prevent it... Selective maternal culture is not an accurate test to predict early onset GBS disease in neonates, and we dont know why some colonised mothers have a neonate with early onset GBS and others dont The current approach to screening would lead to 99.8% of screen positive women and their babies receiving unnecessary intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis Lack of high quality evidence on clinical outcomes makes it impossible to quantify whether universal GBS screening would have any benefit and assess whether large scale intrapartum antibiotic prophylaxis is safe A universal antenatal culture screening programme cannot currently be recommended See more

06.01.2022 Dancing in labour is an evidence-based practice! Results: Dance labor which is a complementary treatment with low risk can reduce the intensity of pain and increase mothers, satisfaction with care during the active phase of labor.... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4825221/

06.01.2022 What's the hardest thing about this standard for childbirth educators?

05.01.2022 10 more Dancing for birth instructors will be offering this wonderful service after this weekend. Absolutely last chance to join the training now. We are starting on Friday, 9.30 a.m! For more information: https://www.facebook.com/events/341509603177198/ To register for the 3 day training: https://www.stickytickets.com.au//dancing_for_birth_instru

05.01.2022 In this prospective longitudinal study of low-risk women it made clear that increased level of physical activity lead to: shorter duration of the first stage of labor, lower gestational age better oxygen saturation in the umbilical artery.... better apgar scores Also, results suggest that newborns of more physically active women have a better acidbase balance, which might reduce the risk of caesarean section due to loss of fetal wellbeing. "Association of sedentary time and physical activity during pregnancy with maternal and neonatal birth outcomes. 2018, L. Baena-Gacia et al." https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/sms.13337 Interested in offering fun, educational and benefitial physical activity, also known as Dancing for birth? Check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/events/341509603177198/

04.01.2022 More fantastic research from Australia. Edith Cowen University researchers have identified a low-cost way of helping thousands of women and babies. Preeclampsia... is one of the leading causes of maternal-foetal mortality worldwide, responsible for the death of 76,000 mothers and 500,000 babies each year, primarily in the developing world. By combining survey responses with magnesium and calcium level blood tests, researchers were able to predict about 80% of cases. The good news is that identified early, it can be treated. https://www.ecu.edu.au//simple-test-predicts-dangerous-pre See more

03.01.2022 One if our own 2019 Victorian Committee Members, braving the changes in Childbirth and Parenting education due to the Covid-19 pandemic How have you changed your education delivery? #childbirthandparentingeducation #covid19 #pregnancy #educators #movingwiththetimes

03.01.2022 When was the last time you reviewed your lesson plans and objectives? Here are some tips if youre due for a review. Build in regular reviews for your lesson ...plans to ensure that they evolve to take into account the latest research and provide adequate coverage of topics. Make sure you remember to measure your participants learning to gauge if your learning objectives are being met. Find any gaps and adjust your curriculum to meet the learning objectives. You can measure your learning objectives in multiple ways to ensure participants have comprehension of the topics you have covered. Consider verbal feedback and discussion, surveys that measure participants confidence levels for topics and mechanisms for feedback after the class concludes (such as a follow up contact).

02.01.2022 Could education on this help women request more tests and expectant management instead of accepting induction for better outcomes?

02.01.2022 Loss in pregnancy, birth and postpartum time is more common than many people think. Support is essential at this time. Save this list of organisations to refer to in time of need: SANDS - volunteer organization, providing misscarriage, stillbirth and newborn death support. Offers resources, events, in-services for hospitals, individual support to parents. https://www.sands.org.au/ 24hr Support: 1300 072 637... GriefLink provides information for people who are dealing with the grief caused by the death of someone close to them, and for those who are supporting them. https://www.grief.org.au// national twin loss support http://www.nationaltwinloss.org.au/ Beyond blue. Depression and anxiety support. https://www.beyondblue.org.au/ helpline 1300 22 4636, chat and email support available on the website Supporting men through loss as well as other difficult situation: https://mensline.org.au/ Lifeline: https://www.lifeline.org.au/, telephone and text helpline for those who feel like life after loss is not worth living Please add more in comments if you know other organisations that should be in this list!

01.01.2022 Figures released a study involving 900 women in Canada shows anxiety and depression has almost tripled during the pandemic to nearly 41%. The researchers sugges...t that a reduction in physical activity may be a large contributing factor and call on the need for promoting alternative and suitable physically exerting activities that are practical such as gardening, walking, household chores and online fitness classes. You can read the study and researcher discussion at https://www.frontiersin.org/ar/10.3389/fgwh.2020.00001/full See more