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Childbirth Education Center (CEC)

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Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo
Childbirth Education Center (CEC)

Check out our links to find out what's important in choosing where and with whom to give birth. Ask questions and get answers regarding birthing in Japan.

Add your birth story to our discussions page and help women who come after you! Childbirth Education Center runs birth and parenting classes via skype for women throughout Japan and around the world as well as "live" classes in Tokyo and Amherst, MA. Private consultation and coaching for discovering your birth desires, choosing a caregiver who meets those desires, prenatal and postnatal coaching s

essions for helping you handle pre-birth worries and post-birth challenges are all available. Established in 1997, over 1600 couples from 70 countries have attended classes to date.

11/11/2025

Unnecessary routine interventions can cause a cascade of other problems

07/11/2025

This is the kind of information that has been included in CEC's Birthing Your Baby class and private consultations for 30 years.

Re: EFM/CTG/monitoring: "Decades of research have shown that the tool does not reliably predict fetal distress. In fact, experts say, it leads to many unnecessary surgeries as doctors overreact to its ever-changing readouts.

The obstetrics field has long ignored these problems. Now, it’s putting more trust than ever on the flawed technology, often prioritizing business and legal concerns ahead of what’s best for patients, The New York Times found."

"On rare occasions, the fetal heartbeat can reveal when something has gone wrong. The trouble is, healthy babies have highly variable heart patterns. "

"Electronic monitoring is no more accurate than periodic stethoscope checks, studies have shown."

Round-the-clock fetal monitoring leads to unnecessary C-sections. But it’s used in nearly every birth because of business and legal concerns, The Times found.

28/10/2025

What midwives have been doing for generations.

https://www.cochrane.org/about-us/news/strong-evidence-supports-skin-skin-contact-after-birth-standard-care?fbclid=IwY2xjawNs9k1leHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETE4TTFMS1FmUE82ZTN0RGNaAR4pnlYTHHbgzVht96TLLTUVvtN48VXPOl0KnJxDP_h_7NxUCoVRpSjEkzyTNw_aem_XumXzS9jKq0TJN4keE_8rw

Wednesday, October 22, 2025 By Mia Parkinson Image Immediate skin-to-skin contact between newborns and their mothers offers a better start in life, improving a number of key health metrics, according to a newly-updated Cochrane review.The review found that babies who have skin-to-skin contact with t...

22/05/2025

🟣 Another blog post updated and moved to my website!
This post is about routine vaginal examinations (VEs) during physiological birth ie. an uncomplicated birth without any medical intervention. A VE is a useful assessment in some circumstances, but its routine use in an attempt to determine labour progress is questionable. As birth knowledge evolves, and research challenges the current misdirected approach to labour progress, there is an opportunity to shift practice.
https://www.rachelreed.website/blog/vaginal-examinations-in-labour

03/05/2025

Getting the hang of it!

19/03/2025

13/02/2025

Important reporting on cord blood banking

https://evidencebasedbirth.com/ebb-346-uncovering-the-facts-about-private-cord-blood-banking-with-journalist-sarah-kliff/?fbclid=IwY2xjawIa9HFleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUS1pvzBaEXiF70y73wHlwL0pKdIrfDT01ArruQf9FEjH3_1NJjvOyVfxw_aem_qAC_-nhpqzlR06_izrlw4Q

EBB 346 – Uncovering the Facts about Private Cord Blood Banking with Journalist Sarah Kliff by Rebecca Dekker | Feb 12, 2025 | Podcast Don’t miss an episode! Subscribe to our podcast and leave a review! iTunes | Spotify | Google In this episode, Dr. Rebecca Dekker and investigative journalist Sa...

09/01/2025

Happy New Year! This one is appropriate anywhere in the world, but Japan seems to need it more.

https://hencigoer.com/just-say-no-to-induction-for-suspected-big-baby/?mc_cid=a37a99147b&mc_eid=693f715f0c&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR14JhGLFGjv6EJyhCX-1ojrVZzbwpIQV2bl6LF9khVTVXrxAj82NBSyL6I_aem_Zv8Nuk4lEE_FlnX4dkkmHQ

Doctors often recommend inducing labor with bigger babies to avoid a cesarean or injury to baby or mom during a difficult vaginal birth. Does it work?

25/06/2024

A new government website that lists 96% of birthing facilities in Japan is now up and running. It is only in Japanese but google translate functions adequately. This is also the (limited) period for giving feedback on the site to make it more useful. Again, google translate is your friend. I encourage as many of you as possible to fill out the feedback form to let the government know what information to include to make your search for facilities and caregivers easier.
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/form/pub/mhlw01/birth-navi-survey
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/birth-navi/index.html

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07/06/2024

Even premies should have immediate Kangaroo Care, says WHO guidelines.

WHO today launched new guidelines to improve survival and health outcomes for babies born early (before 37 weeks of pregnancy) or small (under 2.5kg at birth). The guidelines advise that skin to skin contact with a caregiver – known as kangaroo mother care – should start immediately after birth,...

14/04/2024

Another sad day in the doula world. The great era of bringing physiologic birth back to the main stage is passing. A new generation must carry the torch.

The co-founder of Doulas of North America, now DONA International, passed away Thursday at 85.

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Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo