News, Documents, and Links

Continuing Education

• ICEA Approved Workshops (website)

Dr. Steve Clark's Lecture Materials from Winter Conference (Provided by HCA)

Nutrition

• Nutrition for Pregnancy & Breastfeeding (website)
• Letter to Oprah (pdf)
• Food Safety Materials Free From FDA (pdf)
• Remember to Stress Folic Acid Importance (pdf)

Oral Health

• Northwest Bulletin: Healthy Life: Preventive Oral Health Care (pdf)
• Improving Access to Perinatal Oral Health Care: Strategies & Considerations for Health Plans Issue Brief July 2010 (pdf)
• Brush Up: Periodontal Disease & Pregnancy (AWHONN Dec 2009/Jan 2010) (pdf)

Health Care Providers

• What You Should Know About Care Providers/Choosing a Health Care Provider: 10 Important Questions  to Ask (pdf)
• Nurse-Family Partnership (pdf)
• New Residency May Improve Retention of Nurses in Rural Facilities (jpg)

Fertility & Contraception

• Obesity's Effect on a Patient's Fertility (pdf)
• Contraceptive Implant Approved by FDA (pdf)

Pregnancy

• Maternal Obesity from All Sides (website)
  Research strongly supports the idea that significant weight gain before pregnancy increases the risk for complications, leading doctors to focus on the idea of weight loss preventing them. In fact, some research does support weight loss as prevention. However, this weight loss can come at a price.
• Diabetes and Pregnancy (pdf)
  For women with diabetes who want to learn more about how to take care of themselves during and after pregnancy
• Pregnancy After Bariatric Surgery — (Nursing For Women's Health — Feb/March 2009) (jpg)
• Stressed out women may carry smaller babies (pdf)

Fetal Alcohol Syndrome

• Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders are 100% Preventable (website)
  New CDC Web Based Featured Item

Delivery & After

• ACOG Committee Opinion on Planned Home Births (pdf)
• Postpartum Hemorrhage (pdf)
• ACOG Practice Bulletin — Postpartum Hemorrhage (Vol. 108, No. 4, October 2006) (pdf)
• Making Labor & Delivery Reliable by Reducing Variability — (ACOG Today May/June 2008) (jpg)
• Don't Deliver Late-Preterm Infants Unless Medically Indicated — (ACOG Today April 2008) (jpg)
• Safe Count Program Reduces Cases of Retained Sponges — (ACOG Today October 2008) (jpg)
• OB Team STAT Improves Emergency Response — (ACOG Today August 2008) (jpg)
• Committee Examines Issue of Cesarean Delivery on Maternal Request (pdf)
• Restricted Use of Episiotomy Preferable Over Routine Use (pdf)
• Preventing infant death and injury during delivery

Preterm Infants

• March of Dimes 2011 Premature Birth Report Card—Idaho (pdf)
• March of Dimes 2011 Premature Birth Report Card—United States (pdf)
• Pulse — November 2009 (pdf)
  Prematurity and Preconception Health
• Preemie Voices (website)
  Policies and legislation that impact the care of premature infants.
• March of Dimes Premature Bith Report Card (pdf)
• What Parents of Late Preterm (Near-Term) Infants Need to Know — (AWHONN Late Preterm Infant Initiative) (pdf)
• Questions Parents of Late Preterm (Near-Term) Infants Should Ask — (AWHONN Late Preterm Infant Initiative) (jpg)
• Breastfeeding Your Preterm Infant — (AWHONN) (jpg)
• AWHONN Offers Webinar Series (pdf)
• Preterm Birth Rate Drops — March of Dimes (pdf)
• Rates of Preterm Birth by State, Final 2006 and Preliminary 2007 (pdf)
• Don't Deliver Late-Preterm Infants Unless Medically Indicated — (ACOG Today April 2008) (jpg)
• Research Support Needed to Investigate Preterm Birth (pdf)

Mental Health & Postpardum Depression

• Pulse October 2009 Newsletter (pdf)
• 2007 PRATS Annual Report (pdf)
• PRATS Postpartum Depression (pdf)
• PRATS 2005 Postpartum Depression Idaho Pregnancy Risk Assessment Tracking System Fact Sheet (pdf)
• Free Mental Health Screening Toolkit Available (ACOG Today May/June 2009) (jpg)

Infant Deaths

• Idaho Infant Deaths Due to Congenital Abnormalities (pdf)

Infections & Disease

• AAP News - CDC Updates Guidelines on Prevention of Perinatal GBS and more! (website)
• CDC Campaign fights MRSA infections (website)
• Joint Statement for Pregnant Women About Influenza (website)
• H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu): Resources for Pregnant Women (website)
• Novel H1N1 Flu (Swine Flu) and Feeding your Baby: What Parents Should Know (website)
• Cancer Disparities in Idaho (website)
• Treatment of Mucocutaneous Candidal Infection in the Breastfeeding Mother and Child
• Down Syndrome Screening Guidelines Adopted (jpg)
• CDC Campaign Offers Perinatal HIV Education Tools (pdf)
• Free ACOG Toolkit Battles Fetal Alcohol Disorders (pdf)
• Consider IC in Patients with Chronic Pelvic Pain (pdf)

Abuse

• Abusive Head Trauma in Infants and Children (pdf)
• Population-Based Efforts to End the Cycle of Abuse and Violence in Our Communities (website)
• Executive Order No 2007-18 from C.L. "Butch" Otter, Establishing a Domestic Violence Policy for all State Agencies, Departments, Divisions and Offices (pdf)

Teen Pregnancy

• Preventing Teen Pregnancy: Why It Matters?
• Idaho Health & Welfare Bureau of Vital Statistics Teen Pregnancy Fact Sheet
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  • Page 2 (jpg)

Intimate Partner Violence

• The CDC released findings from a National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey.
• CDC issues report on sexual violence in US
• Start the Conversation: Ending Teen Dating Violence (website)
• "Let's Help Five" Campaign Press Release (pdf)
• Dr. Blea's Talking Points (pdf)

Technology

• Electronic Health Record (EHR) Incentive Program Website (website)
• Free Mobile Health Service for Pregnant Women, New Mothers (website)

Violence Prevention

• Workplaces Respond to Domestic & Sexual Violence: A National Resource Center (website)
• Fact Sheet: White House Highlights Unprecedented Coordination across Federal Government to Combat Violence Against Women (pdf)
• New effort announced by VP to Prevent Dating Violence and Sexual Assault

Other News

• New Idaho Healthcare News is Available
• Idaho Voices for Children Pledge (pdf)
  Please feel free to download and sign. Please send form to Idaho Voices for Children, 314 S. 9th St, Suite 100, Boise, ID 83702
• HIV/AIDS videos from Idaho State Dept of Education (doc)
  Contact Lisa Kramer at (208) 332-6947
• Elective ultrasounds to be discontinued; Companies that offer fetal portraits agree not to advertise their services as entertainment
• Helping Babies Sleep Safely, from Summer Infant (pdf)
  The March of Dimes and Summer Infant have formed a national partnership to promote safe sleep for all little ones.

Newsletters

• Early Childhood Coordinating Council's quarterly newsletter - Summer 2011 (pdf)
  Important information pertaining to kids ages birth through 8.