Trauma Informed Care as a Universal Precaution for Perinatal Health Professionals (2025 CE Subscription)

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This session will discuss the importance of incorporating a trauma-informed approach during the perinatal period. Trauma is pervasive in our society with most adults reporting the experience of adverse childhood events. During the perinatal period, these events lead to adverse pregnancy and birth outcomes such as perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, pre-term birth, low birth weight and impaired or delayed bonding. Trauma-informed care as a universal precaution expects the presence of trauma in the lives of parents being served being careful to not replicate it. In this presentation, trauma-informed care will be explored as a framework with practical ways those providing services during the perinatal period can apply them to their practice.

Participants may earn .50 Lamaze Contact Hours.

Mechell Duran, DNP, APRN, FNP-C, BC-ADM, CDCES, NBC-HWC, LCCE

Dr. Mechell Duran is a trauma-informed pregnancy health coach, diabetes specialist, and a Lamaze-certified childbirth educator. She has over fifteen years of healthcare experience as a nurse and family nurse practitioner and has been trained to facilitate comprehensive trauma programs by the Center of Mind Body Medicine. She is the owner of Sugar Bump Coach, a community where women with Gestational Diabetes can be inspired and informed with recipe ideas and evidenced-based information from pregnancy to the 4th trimester. She resides in South Florida with her husband, their 4-year-old son and two furry children, sugar and brownie. In Dr. Duran's spare time, she enjoys cooking, making aromatherapy recipes, journaling and attending her local church.