title: Continuing education module: finding the path.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: 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.
authors.forename: Kathy
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McGrath