Continuing Education Module: Persuasion: The Key to Changing Women's Ideas About Birth |
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| Authors: | Judith A Lothian |
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| Institution: | JUDITH A. LOTHIAN is a childbirth educator in Brooklyn, New York, a member of the Lamaze International Certification Council, and the associate editor of The Journal of Perinatal Education. She is also an associate professor in the College of Nursing at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey. |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | childbirth education persuasion safe birth healthy birth simple birth natural birth evidence-based maternity care informed decision making |
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