Informed Choices
Links, reading, watching, & products to make you successful
Preconception
Choosing a Care Provider/Birth Attendant
Birth Location of Choice
Calendars
Care of Midwives
Nutrition
Weight Gain
Stages of Pregnancy
Birth Defects
Issues in Pregnancy
Birth Plans
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components
Birth at Home Safety
Homebirth Safety and Benefits
Homebirth is as safe as or safer than hospital birth in most cases;
homebirth also offers intangible benefits beyond superior safety.
Research summaries
Epidural
Waterbirth
Why Waterbirth? Excerpt
from Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Harper, RN, Director of Waterbirth
International Research, Resource and Referral Service The Safety of Homebirth Citizens for Midwifery - The evidence is overwhelming - planned homebirth is safe for healthy women
Labor
Positions for Labor and Birth
Cord Clamping
Birth Injuries Related to Umbilical Cord Clamping To
educate the childbirth professions and the public regarding the
functions of the umbilical cord and placenta before, during and after
birth, and the injuries resulting from disruption of those functions by
a cord clamp
Importance of Skin to Skin with Baby
Baby life & times
Why Do Babies Cry?The Anatomical and Physiological Changes During the Moments After Birth. A Dutch Embryologist. Lectures about babies' consciousness and how we become who we are from the very beginning
Circumcision
Breastfeeding
Reading list
Breech
Cesarean Section
Emotional issues
VBAC
Unassisted Childbirth
Other - good information to look at
Pregnancy & Baby Safe products
Midwifery Organizations & Groups
MANA Midwives Alliance of North America NARM North American Registry of Midwives CfM Citizens for Midwifery
Midwifery Education
