Buckley rapport
Hoewel dit rapport alleen in het Engels te lezen is, vinden we het té interessant om niet te delen.
Het ‘Buckley’rapport is één van de meest revolutionaire en invloedrijke publicaties over kraamzorg en pasgeborenen zorg die ooit zijn uitgegeven. Wat opmerkelijk is, is dat dit rapport niet om een nieuwe technologie of een nieuw medicijn draait. Het verzamelt juist het wetenschappelijk bewijs voor de overtuiging “less is more” en geeft aan dat een goede start ingrijpende positieve gevolgen heeft voor het leren, de hersenontwikkeling en het welzijn van het kind.
Hieronder kun je de Engelse inleiding van het rapport lezen. Het volledige rapport (248 pagina’s) is hier te downloaden: Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing: Evidence and Implications for Women, Babies, and Maternity Care (pdf 1,6 MB, opent in nieuw tabblad)
Abstract
This report synthesizes evidence about innate hormonally-mediated physiologic processes in women and fetuses/newborns during childbearing, and possible impacts of common maternity care practices and interventions on these processes, focusing on four hormone systems that are consequential for childbearing. Core hormonal physiology principles reveal profound interconnections between mothers and babies, among hormone systems, and from pregnancy through to the postpartum and newborn periods.
Overall, consistent and coherent evidence from physiologic understandings and human and animal studies finds that the innate hormonal physiology of childbearing has significant benefits for mothers and babies. Such hormonally-mediated benefits may extend into the future through optimization of breastfeeding and maternal-infant attachment. A growing body of research finds that common maternity care interventions may disturb hormonal processes, reduce their benefits, and create new challenges.
Developmental and epigenetic effects are biologically plausible but poorly studied. The perspective of hormonal physiology adds new considerations for benefit-harm assessments in maternity care, and suggests new research priorities, including consistently measuring crucial hormonally-mediated outcomes that are frequently overlooked. Current understanding suggests that safely avoiding unneeded maternity care interventions would be wise, as supported by the Precautionary Principle. Promoting, supporting, and protecting physiologic childbearing, as far as safely possible in each situation, is a low-technology health and wellness approach to the care of childbearing women and their fetuses/newborns that is applicable in almost all maternity care settings.
Photo credit
De foto bij dit blogbericht is afkomstig uit het rapport en is gemaakt door Heather White, www.brooklynbirtharts.com
