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Here are some links and books you may find useful! Our mission is to promote a wellness model of maternity care that will improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs. Ten questions to ask birthplaces.
Maternity Center Association provides women and health professionals with the best, evidence-based information on pregnancy, birth and beyond. Download the Booklet "What Every Pregnant Woman needs to know about cesarean section."
Informed Choice leaflets are designed for mothers to make informed decisions on issues facing expectant mothers during pregnancy, labor, and afterwards.
Dedicated to providing information that will help families have the best birth possible - a safe, gentle, positive birth experience that supports happy, healthy families.
Giving Birth in Water, a gentle birth choice
Parent education, and childbirth education resources.
The National Women's Health Information Center. Benefits of breastfeeding for baby and mom! Breastfeeding Help-line, breastfeeding Q&A plus so much more.
Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC, is a pediatrician and a graduate of the University of Toronto medical school. He started the first hospital-based breastfeeding clinic in Canada in 1984. He has been a consultant with UNICEF for the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative in Africa. Dr. Newman has practiced as a physician in Canada, New Zealand, and South Africa.
Promoting the awareness and acceptance of breastfeeding.
Explore the many mental and emotional dimensions of pregnancy and birth in everything from scholarly articles to personal stories and late-breaking headlines.
DOC is an organization of physicians, and others who are opposed to non-therapeutic neonatal circumcision; they also believe that doctors should have no role in this painful, unnecessary procedure inflicted on the newborn.
Circumcision Information and Resource Pages
These information pages provide
you with information about all aspects of the genital surgery known as
circumcision.
Postpartum
Support International
A woman-centered, evidence based resource providing childbearing women and maternity care professionals access to research-based information, resources, continuing education and support for VBAC* (vaginal birth after cesarean).
Childbirth Solutions
DONA
International
Mommy Gear
Some of my favorite books: Mind Over Labor; Carl Jones A Good Birth, A Safe Birth; Diana Korte and Roberta M. Scaer The Vital Touch; Sharon Heller The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers; Jack Newman, M.D. and Teresa Pittman Birthing from Within; Pam England and Rob Horowitz The Birth Partner; Penny Simkin Gentle Birth Choices; Barbara Harper Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn; Simkin, Whalley, and Keppler Your Amazing
Newborn; Marshall & Phyllis Klaus |
