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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 sessions 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...

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Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo