Midwife Develops iPhone Application for Expectant Parents

by Melissa Garvey, ACNM Writer and EditorIf you’re an ACNM member, you may remember Sandie Mulcrone, CNM, from the Spring 2008 and Spring 2009 issues of Quickening. I first interviewed Sandie after she successfully pioneered her way to a new hospitalist position at Advocate Christ Medical Center in Oak Lawn, IL. One year later, Sandie contacted me to share how she started her own business to

The Evidence is In: Texting Helps Teen Moms

by Melissa Garvey, ACNM Writer and EditorIn February, ACNM signed on as an outreach partner with Text4Baby and I posed the question, “Do you expect Text4Baby to make a meaningful difference in the lives of women and their babies?” I found the answer this week on MTV’s 16 and Pregnant. Watch the clip below for an inside look at how Text4Baby is, without a doubt, making a difference.MTV ShowsText “

What Mammography and Continuous Electronic Fetal Heart Rate Monitoring Have in Common

by Melissa Garvey, Writer and EditorEarlier this week the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) issued revised breast cancer screening guidelines: women in their 40s who have no unusual risk factors for breast cancer should not receive routine mammograms for early detection of breast cancer and should instead begin routine screening at age 50.This is proving upsetting especially to women