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Pregnancy and Birth Sites

Maternitywise

  • Maternitywise helps women make informed decisions through promoting evidence-based maternity care.
HypnoBirthing®
  • Main HypnoBirthing Institute site in the US . Asian site coming up in early 2006.
Childbirth.org
  • Childbirth.org advocates that birth is a natural process, not a medical procedure. Pregnancy is a very special time in a person's life. Educating yourselves to be good consumers, knowing your options, and how to provide yourselves with the best possible care are essential to a healthy pregnancy. Enjoy the many links of educational, informational, and personal nature.
Birthworks
  • Birth Works embodies the philosophy of developing a woman's self confidence, trust and faith in her ability to give birth. It is their goal to promote safe and loving birth experiences through education, introspection and confident action.
Sheila Kitzinger
  • Explore aspects of birth, drawing on things that Sheila has learned from women around the world and from her research as a social anthropologist into women's experiences of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.
Active Birth Centre
  • Discover how you can make informed choices, and gain the confidence to be actively in charge of your pregnancy, birth and early parenting.
Choices in Childbirth
  • A view of birth as a positive, life-enhancing event, through Preparation, Education, and Knowledge of Choices.
www.birthrites.org
  • Birthrites: Healing After Caesarean Inc. aims to provide a support network for women who have experienced a previous c/section(s) and inform them of their future birth choices.
 
Aromatherapy

http://afolia.tripod.com

 
Active Management of the Birth Process

www.acegraphics.com.au/articles/wagner01.html

www.acegraphics.com.au/articles/wagner03.html
 
Baby Massage
www.infantmassage-imis.com.au
 
Birthing Fears
webpages.charter.net/mamamojo/katieandavery2.html
www.menelli.com
 
Birth Planning and Decision Making
www.cfmidwifery.org/pdf/idealschart2001.pdf
www.terrylarimore.com/BirthRites.html
www.ima.org.il/imaj/ar03aug-11.pdf
www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/miracle/
 
Breastfeeding
www.breastfeeding.com
www.lalecheleague.org
www.breastfeeding.com
www.breastfeeding.asn.au/
www.breastfeeding.org.sg
www.kellymom.com/bf/index.html
www.wiessinger.baka.com/bfing/index.html
www.breastfeedingonline.com/
www.promom.com
 
Circumcision
www.noharmm.org
www.kellymom.com/bf/start/concerns/circumcision.html
www.nocirc.org
www.cirp.org
 
Doula
http://www.thebirthsource.homestead.com/doula.html
http://hometown.aol.com/davisrnclc/myhomepage/hospdoula.htm
www.charm.net/~totoro/doula.html
 
Epidurals
http://www.acegraphics.com.au/articles/sarah02.html
http://www.aimsusa.org/epidural.htm
http://hometown.aol.com/davisrnclc/myhomepage/epidural.htm
http://transitiontoparenthood.com/ttp/parented/pain/epiduralfx.htm
http://transitiontoparenthood.com/ttp/parented/pain/epidural.htm
 
Episiotomy

www.ima.org.il/imaj/ar03aug-11.pdf

www.hencigoer.com
 
Formula
www.naturalfamilyonline.com/5-bf/312-formula-report-2.htm
www.naturalfamilyonline.com/5-bf/43-formula.htm
 
Gestational Diabetes
www.parentsplace.com/expert/birthguru/articles/0,,166353_269209,00.html
www.nichd.nih.gov/publications/pubs/gest_diabetes.htm
www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/gd/gd_nutrition.htm
 
Group B Strep
www.gentlebirth.org/archives/gbs.html
www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0838/is_121/ai_111011387
www.mindfully.org/Health/2002/Antibiotics-E-Coli-Premies24jul02.htm
www.thebirthsource.homestead.com/gbs.html
http://midwiferytoday.com
 
Mastitis
www.oscardehn.com
 
Morning Sickness
www.preggiepops.com
www.hyperemesis.org
 
Nutrition
www.blueribbonbaby.org/ifyouarepregnant/index.shtml
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpfb-dgpsa/onpp-bppn/national_guidelines_05b_e.html
www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpfb-dgpsa/onpp-bppn/national_guidelines_05a_e.html
www.richardseah.com
 
Pain in Labor
www.acegraphics.com.au/articles/leap02.html
serendip.brynmawr.edu/bb/neuro/neuro99/web3/Kinser.html
 
Parenting support groups
www.naturalchild.org/home/
www.nmsg-singapore.com
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/AsiaTandemNursing/
 
Postpartum Depression

www.healthier-life.com/Anna/postpartum.htm

 
Traditional Chinese Medicine
www.chinesenaturecure.com/service.htm
 
Unassisted Births
www.unassistedchildbirth.com
 
Vaccines
www.mercola.com/article/vaccines/links.htm
www.liddellhomeopathic.com
vaclib@coldreams.com
www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00046738.htm
www.healthcyclopedia.com/health-issues/vaccination/side-effect-debate .html
 
VBAC
www.ican-online.org

www.vbac.com

www.cfmidwifery.org/pdf/idealschart2001.pdf

www.terrylarimore.com/BirthRites.html
www.birthpsychology.com/messages/efm/efm.html
www.ima.org.il/imaj/ar03aug-11.pdf
www.birthrites.org
 
Vitamin K
www.mercola.com/2004/may/26/vitamin_k_injections.htm
www.emedicine.com/ped/byname/hemorrhagic-disease-of-newborn.htm
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&dopt=Astract&list_uids=93368614
www.medscape.com/viewarticle/418329_1 (You need to register as a member to view this article - free service)
www.whale.to/y/vitk.html
 
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