Continuing education module: finding the path.
In this guest editorial, the challenges and pain of childbirth are presented as essential components of important life transitions. The role of pain in childbirth is explored. Childbirth is discussed as a "flow experience," and recommendations for assisting women to meet the challenges of labor and birth are presented.
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KATHY MCGRATH is a childbirth educator and perinatal social worker. She is a doula, doula trainer, and mentor for DONA. She has served on the Board of Directors of Lamaze International, is a member of the Lamaze International Certification Council, and lectures nationally on topics related to childbirth. She is the mother of three children and lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.