Kathleen Kendall-Tackett

Evidence-based, with attitude

Birth Trauma


Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2018). Attitude matters: Swedish study shows surprising ways that providers influence mothers' breastfeeding experiences. Clinical Lactation, 9(3), 102-103. [Click Here]

Kendall-Tackett, K.A., & Uvnas Moberg, K. (2018). Is it really mothers' choice? Systemic and provider barriers to breastfeeding. Clinical Lactation, 9(4), 193-199. [Click Here]

Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2017). Why trauma-informed care should be the standard of care for IBCLCs. Clinical Lactation, 8(4), 150-152. [Click Here]

Kendall-Tackett, K.A., Cong, Z., & Hale, T.W. (2015). Birth interventions related to
lower rates of exclusive breastfeeding and increased risk of postpartum depression in a large sample. Clinical Lactation, 6(3), 87-97. [Click Here]

Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2015). Birth interventions, postpartum depression,
and breastfeeding. Clinical Lactation, 6(3), 85. [Click Here]

Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2015). Respectful care duing birth=better breastfeeding
rates: Remarkable new statement from WHO calls for the end of disrespect and
abuse during childbirth. Clinical Lactation, 6(1), 6-8. [Click Here]

Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2014). Childbirth-related posttraumatic stress disorder:
Symptoms and impact on breastfeeding. Clinical Lacation, 5(2), 51-55. [Click Here]

Kendall-Tackett, K.A. (2014). Intervention for mothers who have experienced
childbirth-related trauma and posttraumatic stress disorder. Clinical Lactation,
5(2), 56-61. [Click Here]

Kendall-Tackett, K.A.(2013). Childbirth-related psychological trauma: An issue whose time has come. Clinical Lactation, 4(1), 9-11. [Click Here]

Kendall-Tackett, K. (2004). Trauma associated wtih perinatal events: Birth
experience, prematurity, and childbearing loss. In K.A. Kendall-Tackett (Ed.), Handbook of women, stress, and trauma. New York: Taylor and Francis. [Click Here]

Kendall-Tackett, K.A.(1994). The impact of negative birth experiences on
mother/infant relationships. The APSAC Advisor, 7, 25-26. [Click Here]

Klein, M., Vanderbilt, D., & Kendall-Tackett, K. (2014). PTSD and breastfeeding: Let it flow. Infant, Child, & Adolescent Nutrition. 6, 211. [Click Here]

Simkin, P., Hull, K., & Kendall-Tackett, K. (2011). Roundtable on posttraumatic
stress disorder in the perinatal period. Clinical Lactation, 2(2), 35-37. [Click Here]


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                               -Virginia Woolf