It was the Lamaze International (LI) Board of Directors, collectively with LI Executive Director Linda Harmon, who orchestrated the much more current changes within this journal. A group of hired consultants brought JPE into the modern world, including a digital on-line version. Lamaze members can access all articles at no price (back via Volume 7, Quantity 4) around the LI Net web-site (www.lamaze.org). The basic public can pull up articles through IngentaConnect (www.ingentaconnect.com) or perhaps by utilizing Google Scholar (www.scholar.google. com). The columnists of JPE have already been the backbone inside the journal’s efforts to promote normal birth. Judith Lothian has contributed to practically just about every problem XL184 biological activity sinceSharron S. Humenick EditorDedication and Teamwork|HumenickJPE’s inception–quite a sustained contribution. Barbara Hotelling took around the “Tools for Teaching” column to ensure every single journal situation holds relevance for the childbirth educator’s classes. Amy Romano offers readers with abstracts of a few of essentially the most relevant associated to advertising regular birth. The amount of powerful proof for normal-birth practices she finds is amazing. I hope her reviews aid all readers feel far more confident about promoting standard birth. Teri Shilling saw the need and volunteered to coordinate reviews of relevant media. As JPE readers see the media other individuals are creating, it becomes clear that, in spite of today’s interventionoriented obstetrics, a “village” of concerned people is functioning to promote normalcy in birth. Though, resulting from space limitations, we had to postpone Teri’s column within this problem, I encourage readers to help keep an eye out for it in the next concern. Nayna Phillipsen graciously switched from her “Ask a Lawyer” column to coordinate a broader concept inside the “Ask an Expert” column. This column assists the journal stay relevant to issues expressed by childbirth educators. For years, every challenge has ended with a humor column and cartoon by Deb Gauldin. I feel of Deb as the Erma Bombeck of perinatal education. I think it can be a worthwhile effort for a person to lead us in finding the humor in ourselves and on the planet about us. It has taken extraordinary dedication for the above columnists and for others who preceded them, including Mary Lou Moore and Joan Moon, to help keep producing high-quality material in every single issue. Though I obtain my share of kudos for editing the journal, readers should really recognize that these volunteer columnists add a lot towards the high-quality of JPE. I thank them, and I encourage you to do likewise.JPE also consists of original articles primarily by ers and the regularly committed recommendations and comments by the reviewers of those articles. The names of your reviewers are published within the fourth concern of each and every JPE volume. The careful thought they put in to the testimonials tends to make it doable for me to work with authors to augment or boost their articles. The reviewers and also the editorial board members also help, when necessary, to recruit original articles. Devoid of these volunteers, the journal could not aspire to excellent. As a result, I thank the reviewers as well. The authors of original articles have already been quite gracious in accepting my editing of their operate.