Books by Carol J. Hinkley Thompson

"Its amazing! This is 2006 and the research I'm now reading you wrote in your book over 30 years ago and your practice is beginning to show up in time-tested environments. Back then you told your patients to take Folic Acid during pregnancy, stop smoking, eating rare beef that hadn't been frozen, and "nothing in a box, bag, bottle or can," if I remember it right, and they were all healthy, and had great babies. You HAD to wait for a changing of the conservative guard to get your story out.

It reminds me of Elvis and the real man who taught him to play the guitar as a kid and wrote is most popular songs. But, there are few intellectually honest people in any industry--even today. Once the gatekeepers were gone the truth could be revealed. Like Howard Hughes and the MOB in Las Vegas. You get the gist. This is exciting! Follow up with me with a plan, but get that book revised and out. There are far too many bad obstetricians still floating around.

Childbirth Today: Prepared & Positive: State of Texas, Childcare Consultation and Training, and Family Life Information Centre (Dallas, Texas); soft cover (388 pgs); 1978 (in revision).

This first book was written at the request of several of the author's obstetrical colleagues, including Irwin Chabon, MD (FACOG), Emmanuel Freidman, MD (FACOG), Robert W. Bradley, MD (FACOG), G.C. Nabors, MD, Warren Dixon, MD (FACOG), and many others; The American Society of Psychoprophylaxis in Obstetrics, Inc (ASPO, Washington, DC), and hundreds of the author's patients (over 2000 in her career in peri-natal health). First under contract to Harper & Row, the publisher's Marketing Department wanted the "Home Study" section removed "because it will compete with our market now on the street," but those writers were requesting this section, and some (above) were or would publish with Harper & Row. The author chose to not compromise her values, and serve those who needed her expertise but could not travel for her care—the State of Texas stepped forward, having funded her expansive family life--preventive health center and library in Dallas, Texas, to provide the grant for the publishing. It sold out within the year.

Her early work in the Harvard Pre-School Project, under Burton White MD (The First Five Years of Life), brought Dr. White to Dallas to see what her work encompassed, and visit the Family Life Information Centre, Inc. During his visit, Hinkley Thompson arranged a meeting with one of Dallas' Family Court judges and White, to support her efforts in removing children from an abusive home environment. It was successful. By that time, she had opened peri-natal clinics in south and west Dallas, securing funding from CETA and the Office of Industrialization Services so that women could have funds to travel to their pre-natal visits, childcare, and receive job training while they were waiting to be seen obstetrically. The centers were in churches and community centers, staffed by "a neighborhood communicator and a graduate student or extern," and the women flocked to these outreach centers for their "OB" care. They gave birth at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, with the lowest incidence of complications, pre-term births, and over 71.8% of the women were breastfeeding ninety days after birth.

Hinkley Thompson, her RN staff and trained volunteers attended the women in labor and visited them in the hospital to ensure they were receiving sufficient breastfeeding support. The RNs only received earnings from the courses they taught. During that time, she designed an instrument to identify women who were not bonding with their infants at birth--so the nursing staff could help them, as they moved on into parenting, to avoid child abuse. This later led to the author's "Centre" founding the "Family Outreach" program that is national, now.

For several decades, Hinkley Thompson traveled throughout the nation, Hawaii, and Mexico, certifying RNs, MDs, and RPTs in family-centered maternity and child care for the Am. She initiated the first pre-conceptual pregnancy health-awareness courses, and the first trimester of pregnancy courses to ensure maternal nutrition status, avoidance of environmental conditions that may compromise a pregnancy (such as the addition of Folic Acid diets in women prior to conception who had been on the "Pill" or had a marginal nutrition status; eating rare beef that had not been frozen first, petrochemicals, insecticide exposure, etc.). This pioneer in Family-Centered Maternity and Childcare, Hinkley Thompson worked closely with the March of Dimes, Ross Labs, and Johnson & Johnson to obtain films, slides, breast and pelvic models, and products for preventive health and public seminars during her travels. She taught peri-natal certification courses with Elizabeth Bing, RPT, one of the earliest pioneers in un-medicated birth preparation, and carried the "Lamaze Method" to a new level—total, active relaxation during labor, with only slow breathing (4-6 breaths/minute), in 1969, long before active relaxation for stress reduction and biofeedback in medicine was popular.

After leaving Cambridge, Massachusetts, she opened the first peri-natal education program in Oklahoma, Family Association for Childbirth Education & Training (FACET), and opened the hospitals to these new concepts in neonatal and pediatric care, and was a consultant to the University of Oklahoma, Health Sciences Center's new obstetrical/nursing department (for rooming-in and family-centered birth). Joseph Keuchel, DO, Tulsa, Chair, OSU, College of Obstetrics, was the first physician in Oklahoma to join her in this new approach to birth and early parenting (including breastfeeding). She served on the national board of the ASPO when their headquarters were in New York City. During the 1970s, she worked with Irwin Chabon, MD, at Roosevelt Hospital and their nurse midwives to enhance their family-centered maternity care program. Dr. Chabon passed away shortly after that time, due to lung cancer.

Due to a recent demand for her book (by the children of the parents who used this book, or were patients of Hinkley Thompson), it is now being revised by the author and will be available in chapter and complete book form. Once again her obstetrical colleagues are contacting her to speak to their departments, due to the quality of obstetrical care in the U.S. now, once again.

The author is revising the above-referenced book at this time, but must use vision-assisted technology. The book is being scanned using Kurzwiel, and edited as quickly as the scanning can be done by the author. Her equipment is provided by the Texas Commission for the Blind.

There will be more books—she has several children's books completed as well as short stories.