|
Pregnancy & Birth LinksInformation & Decision Making Support & Doulas Special Circumstances Research Advocacy
Information & Decision Making
The Coalition to Improve Maternity Services - Our mission is to promote a wellness model of maternity care that will improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs.
American College of Nurse-Midwives - Health care providers who offer a natural approach to birth.
Childbirth.org - Promoting birth as a natural process, not a medical procedure.
Childbirth Connection - Childbirth Connection, formerly Maternity Center Association, is a not-for-profit organization that has worked to improve maternity care for mothers, babies and families since 1918. We promote safe, effective, and satisfying evidence-based maternity care. Evidence-based maternity care means using the best research about the safety and effectiveness of specific tests, treatments, and interventions to help you make informed decisions.
Gentle Birth - This site contains research about childbirth practices. Also contains information and several good links to information and research to help individuals make a decision about homebirth.
Marsden Wagner, MD, MS - Former Director of Women’s and Children’s Health for the World Health Organization advocates for changes in our broken maternity system. His website includes information about Elective Cesareans and Birth Plans.
Lamaze International - At Lamaze International, we are committed to ensure that childbearing families have access to information on the health and safety benefits of normal birth to mother and baby, and have access to childbirth education.
Waterbirth International - The mission of Waterbirth International is to “insure that waterbirth is an available option for all women.” Their site provides information and research about waterbirth and birth stories.
American Association of Birth Centers - Offers a variety of information about birth centers to parents and health care professionals. Provides articles, a directory of centers and FAQ section.
Birthing with Midwives - Interactive website that allows you to watch videos of midwifery care, share your stories and put yourself on the map!
Mothering’s Pregnancy and Birth Page - Several articles on everything from activism to waterbirth. The Compleat Mother The magazine of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.
Back to the Top
Support & Doulas
Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators (ALACE) - Provides referrals to expectant parents and trains birth attendants and educators
Doulas of North America (DONA) - Locate a doula (labor and birth support person) in your area.
Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association (CAPPA) - A professional organization of professional membership and training to childbirth educators, lactation educators, labor doulas, antepartum doulas and postpartum doulas. Use their website to locate trainings and professionals in your area.
Association of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health - Explores the many mental and emotional dimensions of pregnancy and birth in everything from scholarly articles to personal stories and late-breaking headlines.
Back to the Top
Special Circumstances
Cesarean Birth & VBACs – International Cesarean Awareness Network Seeks to prevent unnecessary cesareans and to promote vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).
VBAC Resources - Information about the safety of VBAC in a variety of situations.
Mothers over 35 - A website devoted to “late motherhood,” Mothers 35 Plus is dedicated to the growing number of women who bear children after age 35.
Breech or Transverse Babies - Spinning Babies A website dedicated to natural techniques for turning babies into optimal fetal position.
Back to the Top
Research
Index of Research on Homebirth - A compilation of the safety of homebirth and complications of hospital birth procedures.
More Research on the Safety of Homebirth
Research Summaries for Normal Birth - Summaries of new research about normal birth.
Back to the Top
Advocacy
Citizens for Midwifery - Citizens for Midwifery is the only national consumer-based group promoting the Midwives Model of Care. CfM works to provide information and resources that promote the local midwife, as well as midwives and midwifery care across the country.
Cesarean Birth & VBACs – International Cesarean Awareness Network Seeks to prevent unnecessary cesareans and to promote vaginal birth after cesarean (VBAC).
Back to the Top
|
