Issue 63

• A MESSAGE FROM OUR EDITOR | Jeanne Ohm, D.C.

• TAKING THE STEP | A Healthy Nervous System

• TAKING THE STEP | Self-Compassion for Parents

• TAKING THE STEP | Parents as Informed Advocates

• STAYING THE COURSE | Progress and Motion

• STAYING THE COURSE | Teaching Meditation in School? 4 Reasons to Reconsider It

• STAYING THE COURSE | Shed Those Shoes!: How Being Barefoot Benefits Brain Development

• STAYING THE COURSE | Free Play: 10 Ways Unstructured Play Helps our Kids Thrive

• STAYING THE COURSE | Being Wrong and Being Smart

• LIVING THE JOURNEY | Matters of the Heart During Pregnancy

• LIVING THE JOURNEY | The Social Heart: Energy Fields and Consciousness

• LIVING THE JOURNEY | Understanding and Assessing Labor Progress

• LIVING THE JOURNEY | Postpartum Doulas

• LIVING THE JOURNEY | Payback Is a Blessing

Jeanne Ohm, D.C.

• Editorials

A Healthy Nervous System

John Marc

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Self-Compassion for Parents

Susan M Pollack, Ed.D.

• Self-Compassion for Parents: Nurture Your Child by Caring for Yourself. Susan M. Pollack. 2019.

• Dr. Susan Pollack: www.drsusanpollak.com

Parents as Informed Advocates

Jackie Kelleher

• How to Read a Paper: the Basics of Evidence-Based Medicine. Trisha Greenhalgh. 2014.

Progress and Motion

Maria Silver Pyanov, C.P.D

• Balanced and Barefoot: How Unrestricted Outdoor Play Makes for Strong, Confident, and Capable Children. Angela J. Hanscom. 2016.

Teaching Meditation in School? 4 Reasons to Reconsider It

Vince Gowmon, R.T.C.

• School Replaced Detention With Meditation and It Created Incredible Results by MayukhSaha: https://truththeory.com/2019/04/09/school-replaced-detention-with-meditation-and-it-created-incredible-results/?fbclid=IwAR2lgxDNrZrjJhWvQFdqevyS4Wzmn92uQPlwmiFZzoest3N0BV3Ojx-xAZs

• Resting in Connection – Slowing Down Enough to Heal and Form Secure Attachments by Vince Gowmon: www.vincegowmon.com/resting-in-connection/

• Connection Precedes Learning and Self-regulation – Why Relationships are Foundational in Education and Life by Vince Gowmon: www.vincegowmon.com/connection-precedes-learning-and-self-regulation/

• Somatic Counselling: www.vincegowmon.com/somatic-counselling/

• For Kids with ADHD, Regular ‘Green Time’ is Linked to milder Symptoms by Diana Yates: https://news.illinois.edu/view/6367/205232

Shed Those Shoes!: How Being Barefoot Benefits Brain Development

Rae Pica

• Rae Pica Books: www.raepica.com/activelearning-tools/

• Barefoot Babies by Kacie Flegal, DC: www.naturalchildmagazine.com/1210/barefoot-babies.htm

• Why Barefoot is Best for Children: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2010/aug/09/barefoot-best-for-children

• Learning the Textures: www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1353570741360907

Free Play: 10 Ways Unstructured Play Helps Our Kids Thrive

Neve Spicer

• Play Essential for All Children by Cristina Moldovan: www.scribd.com/document/252217091/Play-Essential-for-All-Children

• How Much Do We Know about the Importance of Play in Child Development? Kathleen GlascottBurriss& Ling-Ling Tsao. 2012. Childhood Education Journal.

• A World Without Play: A Literature Review. Josie Gleave and Issy Cole-Hamilton. 2012. www.playengland.org.uk

• The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Development.Jona K. Anderson-McNamee et al. 2010. www.msuextension.org

• Free Play Is Even More Beneficial Than PE Classes by Sa’iyda Shabazz: www.scarymommy.com/free-play-is-better-than-pe-class/

• How to Support and Nurture Your Child’s Passions by susan Newman Ph.D.: www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/singletons/201510/how-support-and-nurture-your-childs-passions

• The 10 Best Scooters for Kids by Neve Spicer: https://wetheparents.org/best-kids-scooters

Being Wrong and Being Smart

Isaac Morehouse

• T.K. Coleman: https://tkcoleman.com/

Matters of the Heart During Pregnancy

Wendy Anne McCarty, Ph.D.

• Dying To Be Me: My Journey from Cancer, to Near Death, to True Healing. Anita Moorjani. 2014.

• The Power of Beliefs: What Babies Are Teaching Us by Wendy Anne McCarty: https://birthpsychology.com/journal/article/power-beliefs-what-babies-are-teaching-us

• Dr. McCarty’s website: www.wondrousbeginnings.com

• Consciousness at the Beginning of Life: pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Pregnancy-Birth/consciousness-at-the-beginning-of-life.html

• The Beauty of Fathering During Pregnancy: pathwaystofamilywellness.org/Pregnancy-Birth/the-beauty-of-fathering-during-pregnancy-what-babies-are-teaching-us.html

• Welcoming Consciousness: Supporting Babies’ Wholeness from the Beginning of Life-An Integrated Model of Early Development. Wendy Anne McCarty, Ph.D. 2012.

• Clinical EFT Handbook 2: A Definitive Resource for Practitioners, Scholars, Clinicians, and Researchers. Dawson Church & Stephanie Marohn. 2013.

• McCarty, W. A. and Glenn, M. (2008).Investing in human potential from the beginning of life: Keystone to maximizing human capital.www.12guidingprinciples–PPN.com

• EFT for Mom, Baby, and Dad from the Beginning of Life by Wendy Anne McCarty, PhD.

• Clinical story of a 6-year-old boy’s eating phobia: An integrated approach utilizing prenatal and perinatal psychology with energy psychology’s emotional freedom technique (EFT) in a surrogate non-local application. Wendy Anne McCarty. Journal of Prenatal & Perinatal Psychology & Health. 2006

• 12 Guiding Principles­­–Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology: Nurturing Babies’ Human Potential and Optimizing Relationships from the Beginning of Life.APPAH.www.12guidingprinciples-ppn.com/

• Association for Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health (APPPAH): www.birthpsychology.com

• Heart Coherence and HeartMath Products/Programs – www.heartmathinstitute.com

• Heart Coherence and HeartMath Research – www.heartmathinstitute.org

• Emotional Freedom Techniques – https://www.thetappingsolution.com

• Emotional Freedom Techniques – https://www.eftuniverse.com

• Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology – https://www.energypsych.org

• What If This Is Heaven? How Our Cultural Myths Prevent Us from Experiencing Heaven on Earth. Anita Moorjani. 2017.

The Social Heart: Energy Fields and Consciousness

Rollin McCraty, Ph.D.

• Heart Math Institute: www.heartmath.org

• Heart Intelligence.Childre, D., Martin, H., Rozman, D., McCraty, R., 2016. Waterfront Press.

• Science of The Heart Vol.2, McCraty, R., 2016. HeartMath Institute

• New Frontiers in Heart Rate Variability and Social Coherence Research: Techniques, Technologies, and Implications for Improving Group Dynamics and Outcomes. McCraty, R., 2017. Frontiers in Public Health 5, 267.

• The coherent heart: Heart-brain interactions, psychophysiological coherence, and the emergence of system-wide order. McCraty, R., Atkinson, M., Tomasino, D., Bradley, R., 2009. Integral Review 5 (2), 10-115.

Understanding and Assessing Labor Progress

Rachel Reed, Ph.D.

• MidwifeThinking: www.midwifethinking.com/author/midwifethinking/

• Midwifery PracticDuring Birth: Rites of Passage and Rites of Protection: https://midwifethinking.com/2013/08/21/midwifery-practice-during-birth-rites-of-passage-and-rites-of-protection/

• Minireview: Fetal-Maternal Hormonal Signaling in Pregnancy and Labor. Carole R. Mendelson. 2009. https://academic.oup.com/mend/article/23/7/947/2683942

• Early Labour and Mixed Messages: https://midwifethinking.com/2013/11/13/early-labour-and-mixed-messages/

• Rhombus of Michaelis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhombus_of_Michaelis

• In Defence of the Amniotic Sac: https://midwifethinking.com/2015/09/16/in-defence-of-the-amniotic-sac/

• Feel the Fear and Birth Anyway: https://midwifethinking.com/2013/03/27/feel-the-fear-and-birth-anyway/

• Perineal Protectors? https://midwifethinking.com/2016/01/13/perineal-protectors/

• The Effective Labour Contraction: https://midwifethinking.com/2010/08/18/the-effective-labour-contraction/

• The purple line as a measure of labour progress: a longitudinal study. Ashley Shepherd et al. 2010. https://bmcpregnancychildbirth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1471-2393-10-54

• The Placenta: Essential Resuscitation Equipment: https://midwifethinking.com/2016/04/13/the-placenta-essential-resuscitation-equipment/

• Cord Blood Collection: Confession of a Vampire-Midwife: https://midwifethinking.com/2015/09/16/cord-blood-collection-confessions-of-a-vampire-midwife/

• An Actively Managed Placental Birth Might Be The Best Option for Most Women: https://midwifethinking.com/2015/03/11/an-actively-managed-placental-birth-might-be-the-best-option-for-most-women/

Postpartum Doulas

Julia Jones

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Payback Is a Blessing

Jackie Kelleher

• My Life on Its Head: https://www.mylifeonitshead.com/blog/payback-is-a-blessing-or-the-story-of-how-i-inadvertently-created-the-village-that-saved-me