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Title: Prenatal Massage - Many Benefits for Mom and Baby Author: Caroline Vigery, CMT Date Published: September 12, 2011 Why Relevant and Summary: This article explains the many benefits for both mother and baby from receiving Prenatal Massage. For mom it includes relaxation and stress reduction, reduction of pain and strains, improvement of blood circulation, preparation for labor, and improvement of respiratory and GI functions. Baby also receives improved blood circulation, healthy tissue, flexible joints and muscles during the pregnancy and labor. How This Influenced My Thinking: Prior to finding this article, I did not know that this was something that mothers did to improve health during pregnancy. I think that it is a great idea and I plan to receive massages too if and when I am pregnant. Credibility of Source: Pretty credible, it is a yoga business so they are more likely to point out the positive effects to make more business, but the article seems thorough and well written.

Title: Making Breastfeeding the Norm: Creating a Culture of Breastfeeding in a Hyper-Sexualized World Author: N.A. Date Published: July 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: This article is persuading people and trying to inform everyone the importance in breastfeeding. Basically, explaining that women should be able to breastfeed where ever and whenever they want and need too without people thinking it's bad or in a sexual manner. How This Influenced My Thinking: I now think that women should be allowed to breastfeed where ever and whenever because it is a statement and it is natural. Credibility of Source: Credible. It is an organization.

Title: Speech and Language Developmental Milestones Author: National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Date Published: Updated September 2010 Why Relevant: This website is relevant because it gives specific guidelines and timetables to follow on the development of children's language. It also clarifies the difference between speech and language development. Credibility: Very High

Title: Speech and Language Developmental Milestones Author: N.A. Date Published: Sept. 2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Describes how speech and language are developed and what happens during the first few years of life. The stages of development and description as to what is occurring and when development should occur. The milestones for speech and language development are given. There are signs for when children are learning to communicate with you. The differences between speech and language disorders. Included is a checklist for a baby's hearing. There are also problematic questions and answers. How This Influenced My Thinking: I was given an insight on how to record a child's development and information on what to do. This article helped think of ways other than signs in order to develop my paper. Credibility of Source: Credible. It is a government owned website.

Title:12 Ways to Give Birth Author:BabyZone Editors Date: nd Why relevant and summary: this website gives the reader 12 different ways of childbirth and briefly summarizes them. Although its helpful when deciding on what types of childbirths to use it does not go into too much detail about each of the methods.

Title: 12 ways to give birth Why relevant and summary: This website discusses 12 different way to give child birth and what is involved with each of these ways. It is relevant to "child birth and culture" because it goes over different methods of birth that not only American cultures use, but other cultures as well. There is a lot of interesting information that is provided in the website and it's also very insightful. author: Baby zone editors Date published: ND How this influenced my thinking: This article really opened my eyes to various types of child birth and the pros and cons that each one has. I had never really considered any other type of birth besides medicated birth in a hospital, but it was very interesting to read about the benefits of water birth. Credibility of source: The source seems to be credible. It was written by the editors of Disney.

Title: Breastfeeding Across Cultures Author: Keith Goetzman Date: 8/11/2009 Why Relevant and Summary: This just gives an example of the difference between cultures on the topic of breastfeeding in public, or just breastfeeding in general. This gives an example of Mongolian cultural differences. How This Influenced my Thinking: It showed me how different cultures vary, and how something labeled as "taboo" in our culture is completely normal for another.

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Title: A Natural Age of Weaning Author: Katherine Dettwyler, PhD Date Published: 1999 Why Relevant and Summary: This article discusses the age of weaning in other cultures, pediatricians views on the ideal age of weaning as well as the pros and cons. How This Influenced My Thinking: It didn't really influence my thinking, however I did think that this article was full of interesting facts. Credibility of Source: A consider it fairly credible, The author has a PhD and seems very knowledgeable and gives many facts to supports her article.

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Title:Childbirth in Other Cultures Author:Jennifer Vanderlaan & Birthing Naturally Date Published: 2000-2011 Why Relevant and Summary: Its relevant because it talks about what other cultures believe when it comes to childbirth How This Influenced My Thinking: It didn't influence my thinking Credibility of Source: It seems credible

Title: Methods of Childbirth Author: Web M.d Date Published:n.d Why Relevant and Summary: This website shows an overview of the most common form of labor and delivery. It gives examples of methods use to deliver a baby. How This Influenced My Thinking: Although i was aware of this form of childbirth method, I was not aware of the terminology that doctors use, and how complex childbirth actually is. It has open my eyes to the variety of methods. Credibility of Source: This source was somewhat credible. This website is useful if wanting to get an overview of the topic or if one is new to topic. This source is a good way to begin with research, however more extensive research should be done.

Title: Cultural differences among birthing women Author: Brenda Lane Date Published:2010 Why Relevant and Summary: Informative article that explains cultural differences in the birthing process including support system and who is involved in the process. Gives great examples across different cultures. How This Influenced My Thinking: Made me realize that there are different views on how a child should be birthed i always thought that the father has to be present no matter what in the process. This is not the case among people of other cultures. Credibility of Source: Medium.

Title: Breastfeeding Benefits Your Baby's Immune System Author: N/A Date Published:1/12/12 Why Relevant and Summary: This article is relevant because it stresses the pros to breast feeding. It especially highlights its capabilities to stop disease and build up the immune system. How This Influenced My Thinking: This helped me more scientifically understand why breast milk helps build up our immune systems with the antibodies, white blood cells, etc. Credibility of Source: healthy children's website seems reliable.

Title: Your Guide to Breastfeeding Author: WebMD Date Published: n.d. Why Relevant and Summary: Total overview of breastfeeding, some benefits and concerns of mothers as well as some problems one may encounter How This Influenced My Thinking: This opened my eyes to some problems that may occur during breastfeeding and also more developmental benefits. Credibility of Source: I have found WebMD is pretty credible

Title: Breast vs. Bottle for Feeding Your Baby Author: Roy Benaroch Date Published: Last revised July 2012 Why relevant and Summary: It is relevant because it discusses the difference between breastfeeding and bottle-feeding. It gives a detailed list of the advantages of breastfeeding. How This Influenced My Thinking: This influenced my thinking because now I fully know the advantages and disadvantages of breastfeeding and bottle feeding. Credibility of Source: It seems credible it was revised only a couple of months ago

Title: Breastfeeding and Human Lactation Author: Jan Riordan Date Published: 1998 Why Relevant and Summary: This ebook is very relevant because it discusses how different culutres choose to breastfeed or not and how other cultures can determine if they will breastfeed or not. This ebook gets more in detail but from my reading (pgs. 716-719) it covers background information and provide examples on which culture breastfeed why or why not. How This Influenced My Thinking: This has influence my thinking because I subconsciously didn't realized why most people didn't breast feed besides it just being a trend. Credibility of Source: This is credible because it is a published book.

Title: Water Birth Author: American Pregnancy Association Date Published: 01/2013 Why Relevant and Summary: This page shows the benefits to water birth over traditional vaginal birth outside of water, giving tips on how to prepare for a water birth, and those it would not work well for. How This Influenced My Thinking: I was unaware of all of the benefits of water births. Credibility of Source: 8; sources are cited at the base of article

Title: Water Births Author: American Pregnancy Association Date Published: 01/2013-Last Revised Why Relevant and Summary: It gives a good overview to the benefits and drawbacks to water birth. How This Influenced My Thinking: It influences me further in my belief that a water birth is the choice for me. Credibility of Source: Yes, the references listed at the bottom of this short overview, that were used to compile the information that was provided here, are credible sources.

Title: Home birth: Know the pros and cons Author: Mayo Clinic Staff Date Published: 2011 Why relevant and summary: One of the birth options that I talked about was a homebirth. This article talked about why women choose to have homebirths, the cases where it would not be recommended and how to prepare for a homebirth How it influenced my thinking: It didn't change my thinking, but it was a good reference and confirmed some of the things that I said.

Title: Breastfeeding Around the World Author: Teri Brown Date Published: N/D Why Relevant and Summary: Because it shows how breastfeeding is different depending on culture. How This Influenced My Thinking: I learned many things I didn't know about how different cultures do things. Credibility of Source: There is different sources.

Title: The Cultural Art of Breastfeeding Author: Cynthia Good Mojab, MS Date Published: October-November 2000 Why Relevant and Summary: While this article is from a pro-breastfeeding site, there is a ton of info about the culture of breastfeeding. It covers both biological and cultural aspects. How This Influenced My Thinking: I never thought about how the lack of breastfeeding in the family would influence a new mom. Credibility of Source: The La Leche League is the Pro-Breastfeeding place to go. I find this source extremely credible.

Title:Childbirth Options: What's the Best? Author: Brenda Conway Date Published: N.D. Why Relevant and Summary: This is a great article explaining the many different birthing options. It also gives pros and cons of each. How this influenced my thinking: I didn't realize there were so many options available with a hospital birth. Credibility of Source: The article was from Web M.D. so i think it is very credible.

Title:Benefits of Natural Childbirth Author: Lilian Presti Date Published: June 30, 2008 Why Relevant and Summary: This article gives benefits of natural childbirth. It compares these benefits to pregnancies using technology and drugs which I thought was helpful. How This Influenced My Thinking: I always thought I would do pregnancy with drugs, but after researching and reading this article I am considering natural childbirth! Credibility of Source: The article has an author and date so it shoudl be pretty reliable. It also has references to ferer back to.