{"id":25586,"date":"2017-04-27T15:50:33","date_gmt":"2017-04-27T19:50:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?p=25586"},"modified":"2017-04-28T13:52:08","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T17:52:08","slug":"time-download-respectful-maternity-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/blog\/time-download-respectful-maternity-care\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time to Download Respectful Maternity Care!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updates to the Safe Delivery App Incorporate Respectful Maternity Care <\/em><\/p>\n

The Safe Delivery App is a smartphone application that provides\u00a0skilled\u00a0birth attendants with direct and instant access to evidence-based and up-to-date clinical guidelines on\u00a0basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care (BEmONC).<\/p>\n

The Safe Delivery App leverages the growing ubiquity of mobile phones to provide life-saving information and guidance through easy-to-understand animated instruction videos, action cards, practical procedures and drug lists. It can serve as a training tool both in pre- and in-service training and equips birth attendants \u2013 even in the\u00a0most remote\u00a0areas \u2013 with a powerful on-the-job reference tool.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

Maternity Foundation is proud to announce the release of an updated and improved version of the Safe Delivery App. It has been updated both in terms design to ensure a more intuitive user experience and content based on the newest clinical guidelines from the World Health Organization. These changes are in-line with Maternity Foundation\u2019s priorities to ensure that the app is continuously updated to meet the newest global guidelines, and to make the adaptation process of the app \u2013 both at national level and within the UN and WHO system \u2013 as easy and efficient as possible.<\/p>\n

In addition, the app now contains elements central to respectful maternity care (RMC). In many countries where the app is being used, fear of being treated poorly \u2013 abused, neglected, disrespected \u2013 in facilities keeps women away from using skilled care. According to the White Ribbon Alliance, RMC holds that safe motherhood is more than the just preventing death and disability, but further entails respect for women\u2019s humanity, feelings, choices, and preferences around pregnancy, childbirth and the post-partum period.<\/p>\n

RMC is not only the right thing for skilled birth attendants to do; it is the smart thing to do. This app is an important tool to help midwives understand and actualize this. Here is how the Safe Delivery App incorporates some of the key principals of RMC:<\/p>\n

\"\"Every woman has the right to be free from harm and ill treatment. Every woman has the right to dignity and respect.<\/strong>
\nMuch of the strength of the Safe Delivery App is through its visual elements which demonstrate clearly and concisely how to correctly handle emergencies. The visuals of the app also communicate, through demonstration, how a skilled birth attendant should treat a patient. Our skilled birth attendant conveys a kind, caring demeanor towards her patient, with a gentle hand on a shoulder, eye contact, and a smile.<\/p>\n

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Every woman has the right to information, informed consent, and refusal, and respect for her choices and preferences, including companionship during maternity care.
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We added a birthing companion who is by the woman\u2019s side throughout the entire childbirth process.<\/p>\n

In addition, our guidelines instruct skilled birth attendants to inform women of what procedures entail and keep them well updated as to what is going on (see \u201cAddress\u201d in the image to the right, our action card on vacuum delivery). We also added text that says \u201cask the woman\u2019s consent\u201d prior to procedures.<\/p>\n

Every woman has the right to privacy and confidentiality. \u00a0No one can expose you or your information.
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\"\"We added a full blanket to cover the woman\u2019s body including breasts, and added a blanket and bonnet for the infant to communicate the importance of dignity, privacy, respect and comfort.<\/p>\n

These are just a few ways the Safe Delivery App aims to ensure skilled birth attendants can provide the highest quality basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care- respectfully, empathetically and equally. See more for yourself and download the App for free in English and French (for additional languages coming soon please contact us) on iTunes<\/a> or Google Play.<\/a><\/p>\n

Maternity Foundation has made a commitment with UN’s Every Woman Every Child to reach 20,000 skilled birth attendants before end 2018. If we reach this ambitious goal, we will help ensure 2 million women a safer and more respectful childbirth experience.<\/p>\n

Both the original and updated versions of the Safe Delivery App are developed by Maternity Foundation, Copenhagen University and University of Southern Denmark and produced by Visikon. The development is supported by MSD for Mothers and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Maternity Foundation supports key partners such as UNFPA, ministries of health, national midwifery organizations, the World Bank, Red Cross and Amref to implement the App in low- and middle-income countries across Africa and Asia.<\/p>\n

For more information on the Safe Delivery App, contact Tara Talvacchia at\u00a0<\/em>tara@maternity.dk<\/em><\/a>\u00a0or Ida Marie Boas at\u00a0<\/em>ida@maternity.dk<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Blog by Tara Morazzini Talvacchia, mHealth Manager, Maternity Foundation. At Maternity Foundation, Tara drives strategic efforts to implement the Safe Delivery App at scale in collaboration with cross-sector partners.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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When complications arise, health workers must be ready to respond appropriately.[\/vc_column_text][vc_text_separator title=\"Key resources\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unfpa.org\/sowmy\">State of the World\u2019s Midwifery Report<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/MCPC-2nd-ed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u00a0<\/a>(2021)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/hnn-content\/uploads\/MCPC-2nd-ed.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WHO guidelines Managing complications in pregnancy and childbirth: A guide for midwives and doctors\u00a0<\/a>(2017)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/resource\/every-newborn-action-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Every Newborn Action Plan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/tools\/essential-newborn-care-training-course\">Essential Newborn Care Course<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 interim version of the second edition (2022)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/blog\/ending-preventable-stillbirths-requires-improving-quality-of-care\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ending Preventable Stillbirths requires improving quality of care<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","post_title":"Childbirth care","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"childbirth-care","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-02 12:48:31","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-02 16:48:31","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&p=117","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":129,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2015-10-21 15:19:54","post_date_gmt":"2015-10-21 15:19:54","post_content":"<p>[vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1453403441710{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Digital health refers to the use of mobile information and communications technology devices, including basic cell phones, smart phones, tablets, and devices that can attach to any of those, to support health programming.<\/h2>\n<p>Digital health projects around the world have demonstrated the potential of this technology to expand access to medical education and training for health workers, increase efficiency and decrease cost of service delivery, and extend the reach of health information and services to hard-to-reach populations.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" el_class=\"issue-stats\"][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-red\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">5.44<\/span>b<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1690998507553{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">number of unique mobile phone users on the planet by January 2023 (68% of world population)<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-yellow\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">92<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1652469746388{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">percentage of users accessing the internet via mobile phones<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-blue\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">3.2<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1690998580805{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\">percent growth of total mobile phone users over the last year, with 168 million new mobile users.<\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/datareportal.com\/reports\/digital-2023-global-overview-report\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a> for above as of January 2023. <\/em><em>All data on this page represents the most recent data available. Please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a>\u00a0page and download the Excel spreadsheet to explore the data further.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1452696349804{margin-top: 30px !important;margin-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #f6f6f4 !important;}\"][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"There are at least 11 ways digital health is used globally\" color=\"custom\" accent_color=\"#cccccc\"][vc_row_inner equal_height=\"yes\"][vc_column_inner width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Client education and behavior change<\/li>\n<li>Sensors and point of care diagnostics<\/li>\n<li>Registries and vital events tracking<\/li>\n<li>Electronic health records<\/li>\n<li>Electronic decision support for providers, such as algorithms for community healthy workers\u00a0who are diagnosing and treating disease<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provider-to-provider communication<\/li>\n<li>Provider work planning and scheduling<\/li>\n<li>Provider training and education<\/li>\n<li>Human resources management<\/li>\n<li>Supply chain management<\/li>\n<li>Financial transactions and incentives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_column_text]<b>Digital Health<\/b><b> Tools & Resources<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.globaldigitalhealthnetwork.org%2F&data=05%7C01%7Ceshea%40savechildren.org%7C9036cf10d8a74161c46e08da37585921%7Cd1934b2d792c47cca2f5fc634183cd2d%7C0%7C0%7C637883149827824081%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=q%2BgMxttjjGtQmVL3HyKFcLWZfPqAc%2BMdxlOuq%2FFyvvo%3D&reserved=0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Global Digital Health Network<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/datareportal.com\/reports\/digital-2022-global-overview-report\">DIGITAL 2022: GLOBAL OVERVIEW REPORT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/digitalprinciples.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Principles-Overview.pdf\">Principles for Digital Development\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","post_title":"Digital Health","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"mhealth","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-02 13:50:51","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-02 17:50:51","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&p=129","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":124,"post_author":"7211","post_date":"2015-10-21 15:18:57","post_date_gmt":"2015-10-21 15:18:57","post_content":"<p>[vc_row full_width=\"stretch_row\" css=\".vc_custom_1453403441710{margin-top: -60px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;background-color: #ffffff !important;}\"][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>In order to meet our maternal and newborn health objectives, we need health professionals and community health workers that:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Are readily available where and when needed<\/li>\n<li>Have the necessary knowledge and skills for the services they are providing<\/li>\n<li>Are appropriately motivated to provide the needed service<\/li>\n<li>Are adequately supported and enabled with supervision, support systems (supply chain and\u00a0information systems), necessary infrastructure (space, water, electricity, and communications), and more<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ensuring that this set of conditions is met depends on adequate human resources policy and management.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\" el_class=\"issue-stats\"][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-red\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">82<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1691004009799{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">percentage of global births that were assisted by suitably qualified health workers between 2016 and 2021<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner el_class=\"text-yellow\" width=\"1\/3\"][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span class=\"ticker\">66<\/span><\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=\"2\/3\"][vc_column_text css=\".vc_custom_1691004076215{padding-top: 10px !important;padding-bottom: 10px !important;}\"]<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">percentage of women in least developed countries that were assisted by suitably qualified health workers during birth between 2016 and 2021<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_separator][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>All data on this page represents the most recent data available, unless otherwise noted. Please visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/numbers\/\">Newborn Numbers<\/a> page and download the Excel spreadsheet to explore the data further.<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][vc_row_inner content_placement=\"middle\"][vc_column_inner][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=\"More information\"][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]Over the past decade and a half, considerable emphasis within global maternal-newborn health programs has been placed on \u201cskilled birth attendance,\u201d i.e., births assisted by suitably qualified health workers. This reflects the observation that for women delivering at home without ready access to emergency obstetrical care, support from traditional birth attendants proved inadequate to substantially reduce risk of death for the mother or newborn. Considerable effort has been expended in many settings to help ensure that women give birth with the assistance of qualified human resources, specifically a health worker, and generally in a health facility.<\/p>\n<p>However, in many instances there has not\u00a0been equal attention given to the actual substance of the care provided or the necessary supports to enable health workers to provide adequate care. In recent years, there has been increasing attention in program work to the quality and content of maternal-newborn services, particularly around the time of birth. This is reflected in current work at the World Health Organization on improving quality of maternal-newborn health care.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=\"1\/2\"][vc_column_text]Part of what is implied in the \u201cskilled birth attendance\u201d strategy is that assisting in childbirth does not necessarily require a physician. Many interventions related to maternal-newborn health can be competently delivered by categories of health workers with comparatively modest training.<\/p>\n<p>Accordingly, certain maternal-newborn services can be provided by categories of health workers labelled as \u201ccommunity health workers\u201d (CHWs). This is a broad designation that includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Health auxiliaries with training sometimes approaching that of registered nurses<\/li>\n<li>Paid full-time workers with several months of basic training<\/li>\n<li>Non-salaried but financially \u201cincentivized\u201d workers, typically working less than full-time<\/li>\n<li>Volunteers providing services on a periodic or intermittent basis with little or no financial incentives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=\"13796\" add_caption=\"yes\" alignment=\"center\" css_animation=\"appear\"][vc_column_text]In some settings, there is more than one tier of CHWs.\u00a0When robustly supported (as they can be under project conditions), non-salaried and volunteer CHWs have been demonstrated as effective for various maternal- and newborn-related services. There are fewer examples of such work being effectively delivered at national scale, under non-project conditions. A very important but frequently neglected factor is the supports needed for effective programs.<\/p>\n<p>The issue is not so much,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>can <\/strong>CHWs be effective for a particular service?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But rather,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>what supports are necessary<\/strong> for effectiveness?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And,<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>are such supports feasible at scale<\/strong> under normal, non-project conditions?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Program efforts commonly address health worker knowledge and skills. This is typically done primarily by training. Motivation is less often given focused attention. Certainly, some aspects of performance can be positively affected by financial incentives, although such incentives can also have unintended negative consequences. However, motivation is more than just a matter of incentives.<\/p>\n<p>In many settings, legitimate and illegitimate absences from work significantly undermine reliable access to services. This can be a consequence, for example, of frequent off-site trainings. There are also many settings where health workers are either frequently away from their posts without authorization or where they offer services only for very limited periods of time each day.<\/p>\n<p>Even when health workers are at their posts, their practices are affected not only by material they may have been exposed to in training but also by other influences on what they consider appropriate care. For example, health workers may be well aware of what treatments are recommended or authorized in national treatment guidelines but may -- for any number of reasons -- prefer to offer treatments not reflected in official protocols. For human resources program efforts to be effective in ensuring availability of appropriate care, they need to respond to the actual factors influencing health worker practices.<\/p>\n<p>Supervision is often mentioned as an important performance factor in health worker practices. Certainly under project conditions, there are numerous examples of \u201csupportive technical supervision\u201d or \u201cmentoring\u201d that appear to have made a positive contribution to quality of care. There are, however, far fewer examples of this function being effectively delivered under non-project conditions. Health-facility-level quality improvement efforts can serve a somewhat similar function, whereby groups of health staff work collectively to improve performance, holding each other accountable.[\/vc_column_text][vc_column_text]<strong>Key resources<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.who.int\/iris\/handle\/10665\/77764\">WHO Recommendations: Optimizing health worker roles for maternal and newborn health<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","post_title":"Human resources for health","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"human-resources","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-08-02 15:22:01","post_modified_gmt":"2023-08-02 19:22:01","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"http:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/?post_type=issue&p=124","menu_order":0,"post_type":"issue","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"regions":[],"countries":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4809"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthynewbornnetwork.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}