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Maternal Nursing and Midwifery Lab
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A midwifery lab that supports the health of mothers and children through pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period with scientific evidence.
AboutAbout the lab
Bringing out women's strength to give birth and to live
The Maternal Nursing and Midwifery Lab studies the health of women and babies from pregnancy through childbirth and the postpartum period.
Using biochemical and physiological methods as well as fieldwork in Japan and abroad, the lab clarifies what is happening in practice and develops methods of support.
The lab has set up laboratory facilities that are unusual in nursing, and aims to provide care based on scientific evidence.
The master's program in the graduate school has a midwifery education course that qualifies students to sit for the national midwife examination.
Key terms
- Midwifery
- The field that systematizes, as an academic discipline, methods of supporting women and babies during pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, and child-rearing
- Low birth weight infants
- Babies whose weight at birth is below the standard. Linked to nutrition and weight management during pregnancy
- Pelvic floor
- The muscles and tissues at the bottom of the pelvis that support organs such as the bladder and uterus from below. If damaged during childbirth, problems such as urinary leakage can occur
NewsLab news
Paper by Professor Haruna published in Methods and Protocols
Paper by faculty members published in Advances in Neonatal Care
Paper by a graduate of the program published in Neuropeptides
Paper by a master's program graduate published in the Journal of Japan Academy of Midwifery
Paper by a graduate of the program published in Pediatrics and Neonatology
ResearchResearch themes
The lab focuses on the dynamically changing process from pregnancy through childbirth and the postpartum period, and on health promotion across women's entire lives. Research projects are organized into pregnancy, childbirth, the postpartum period, women's health, and newborns.
*Illustrative imageHealthy Lifestyle During Pregnancy
To prevent outcomes such as low birth weight infants, the lab conducts the J-PEACH study, which examines pregnant women's weight, indicators of glucose and lipid metabolism, nutrient intake, and physical activity.
*Illustrative imageSupporting Childbirth with Peace of Mind
The lab works on evaluating continuity of care in midwife-led in-hospital birth units and midwife outpatient clinics, developing a scale to measure fear of childbirth, evaluating labor with transperineal ultrasound, and midwifery education using VR in collaboration with overseas universities.
*Illustrative imagePostpartum Pelvic Floor Care
Using ultrasound, the lab evaluates pelvic floor muscle training that prevents pelvic floor disorders such as urinary incontinence after childbirth, and also creates training programs.
*Illustrative imageSupporting Women's Health
The lab studies the sleep and daily rhythms of mothers who work while raising children, support models for menopausal symptoms and dysmenorrhea, and the evaluation of babies' feeding behavior to support breastfeeding.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Maternal Nursing and Midwifery Lab consist of faculty, specialist academic staff, administrative staff, doctoral and master's students, and visiting researchers.As of 2026
- ProfessorMegumi HarunaPublications ↗
- Associate ProfessorKaori YonezawaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorMoeko TanakaPublications ↗
- Assistant ProfessorMoeri MashikoPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Newborn on mother chest” DerringUndo / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Healthy Lifestyle During Pregnancy: “Pregnant Woman With Dumbells” 作者不詳 / Public domain (cropped)
- Supporting Childbirth with Peace of Mind: “Fotos produzidas pelo Senado ( )” Jefferson Rudy/Senado Federal / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
- Postpartum Pelvic Floor Care: “1115 Muscles of the Pelvic Floor” OpenStax / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Supporting Women's Health: “Breastfeeding a newborn baby, Moscow, Russia” Vyacheslav Argenberg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
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