Today! 🎤 Join Birth Place Lab in welcoming Dr. JoLee Sasakamoose as a speaker for the Justice and Equity in Perinatal Services Hub Seminar Series on October 22, 2026, at 12 PM PST/3 PM EST.
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Tomorrow! 🎤 Join Birth Place Lab in welcoming Dr. JoLee Sasakamoose as a speaker for the Justice and Equity in Perinatal Services Hub Seminar Series on October 22, 2026, at 12 PM PST/3 PM EST.
At least 1 in 5 pregnancies end in loss, but until last year, the experience of respectful care had received limited research attention.
Next Week! 🎤 Join Birth Place Lab in welcoming Dr. JoLee Sasakamoose (@roots_to_wellness_research) as a speaker for the Justice and Equity in Perinatal Services Hub Seminar Series on October 22, 2026, at 12 PM PST/3 PM EST.
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Policymakers, health workers, and families: one open-access hub for rights-based perinatal care 🌍
Annually from October 1-7, we celebrate National Breastfeeding Week in Canada.
Today, we reflect on Canada's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. In "Birthing injustice: unmasking structural racism and the illusion of reconciliation in indigenous perinatal care in Canada, insights from the RESPCCT study," (Phillips-Beck et al., 2026)...
Access to contraception & family planning is vital for reproductive justice.
The 25th International Normal Labour and Birth Conference (NLBC) was held on September 14-16 in Berlin, Germany (@nlbc_berlin_2026).
The fourth week of September is Gender Equality Week in Canada, a time to highlight progress made to advance gender equality, celebrate the achievements of persons of marginalized genders and identities, & commit to closing persistent gender gaps that hold too many back.
Join us in thanking our Summer Session Work Learn students & welcoming them into the academic year!
Join us in thanking our Summer Session Work Learn students & welcoming them into the academic year!
Join us in thanking our Summer Session Work Learn students & welcoming them into the academic year!
Welcome to a new semester at the Birth Place Lab! We are excited to continue to highlight our studies, our JEPS Seminar series, & more.
Meet the BPL Team! Maryam Dehnadi (she/her) is a Projects Coordinator, Research at the Birth Place Lab, where she helps bring people, projects, and communication together. [1/5]
Did you miss it? In May 2026, Dr. Celina Solís and Dr. Raymonde Gagnon joined us to share about "Language & Perinatal Care in Canada: Francophone vs Anglophone Experiences" for our (JEPS) seminar series. View the recording → https://www.birthplacelab.org/jeps/seminar-series/
In May 2026, Dr. Celina Solís and Dr. Raymonde Gagnon joined us to share about "Language & Perinatal Care in Canada: Francophone vs Anglophone Experiences" for our Justice and Equity in Perinatal Services (JEPS) seminar series. View the recording → https://www.birthplacelab.org/jeps/seminar-series/
The "Provider Attitudes to Planned Home Birth" (PAPHB) scale can be used to assess similarities and differences among types of providers in readiness to offer community birth services or collaborate with community birth providers.
The "Birth Place Research Quality" (ResQu) index helps evaluate the quality of research examining the effects of birth place on health outcomes.
The "Mistreatment" (MIST) index helps clarify seven dimensions of human rights violations that align with the Bohren typology...
The "Measures of Respect" (MOR) index, also known by the name "Mothers on Respect" index, helps assess the nature of respectful patient-provider interactions & their impact on a person’s comfort, behavior, & experiences of racism or discrimination.
The "My Autonomy In Decision-Making" (MADM) scale, also known by the name "Mothers' Autonomy in Decision-Making" scale, helps assess patients' experiences in decision-making when interacting with perinatal care providers.
Giving Voice to Mothers, our landmark study on respectful perinatal care, confirmed that most birthing people want to feed their baby from their body. However, not all of them received information, support, & resources to empower them to do so.
Birth is often expected to fit neatly into systems built around control, protocols, efficiency, and risk management. Safety matters, but birth also carries something that cannot be fully controlled, timing. (1/2)
Landmark research carried out by the Birth Place Lab, including Giving Voice to Mothers & the RESPCCT survey, confirms the lived experience narratives shared by Black pregnant people... (1/6)
Touching on sustainability, building with natural materials, and designing spaces made with the physiology of birth, Anka Dür discusses what integrity in birth room design means to them in this clip from the JEPS seminar...(1/2)