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| Building Your Baby: Nutrition |
Photo credit Marilyn Nolt, DONA, ACBE |
Dr Brewer figured out how to reduce complications for over 25,000 women over the course of his career. He eradicated IUGR, most preterm labor, and most impressively, toximia and pre-eclampsia along with countless other common problems of pregnancy. How? He simply fed the women good food. Get yourself a blue ribbon baby and a great and easy pregnancy with the Brewer Rx for better health. Options for moms with special diets, vegan, vegetarian, etc. Web site: http://www.blueribbonbaby.org
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Nutrition and micronutrients in pregnancy
http://www.reproline.jhu.edu/english/2mnh/2ppts/nutrition/Nutrition.ppt
Fatty acids: baby brain cells (and mom’s as well) are made up of these tasty little fatty acids all human civilizations grew up around regions which supplied good sources of fatty acids, and great minds still come from diets rich in fatty acids
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Sites to make your birth nearly painless:
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What isn’t available on these sites? In the late 1990’s it seemed like everybody had a great .org which gave unbelievable info to the universe. These three sites here are repositories of some of the greatest knowledge the web has ever seen re: the perfection of birth.
www.socialbirth.org
www.childbirth.org
www.gentlebirth.org
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Photo courtesy Amber Wismer, CCE
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Gail Tully's site. FINALLY a site dedicated to the knowledge of how to turn a baby from back labor to normal labor. If you have back labor, if you have clients of back labor, if you FEAR back labor… study this site and if you are pregnant turn your chair around (right now!!).
www.spinningbabies.com
Good site on birth balls, very useful for changing baby position and working with the maternal pelvis. Great chair for expecting mommas who do lots of computing!!
http://www.childbirth.org/CEP/ballins.html
If you haven’t heard how great waterbirth is you need this site. Having babies or laboring in water changes everything. Contractions are bearable, the world is a better place and we love Barbara Harper (another medal winning woman)
www.waterbirth.org
Birth as an internal transformational process handled naturally and with respect to culture, personal belief systems
www.birthingfromwithin.com
www.birthworks.org
Deep doula site with many bits of good information
http://www.birthpower.com/links.html
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| Homebirth from a Mother’s pov |
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| Nice pictures of homebirth |
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| Online birth center with lots of links |
http://www.moonlily.com/obc/
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| Homebirth e-mail list |
http://www.kjsl.com/homebirth/
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| Photo diary of births |
http://www.birthdiaries.com/diary/
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| Birth stories |
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/8148/birthstories.html
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| Great Women in Birth: |
Susun Weed
For herbal information related to pregnancy, birth, women's health. She’s probably the most respected herbal goddess in the universe, well in my universe anyway.
www.susunweed.com
Suzanne Arms (Immaculate Deception author) is the bomb diggity when it comes to peaceful partiuation.
http://www.birthingthefuture.com
Gloria Lemay has been such a leader out on the west coast of Canada, she has stretched the boundaries of what is possible in birth and what we define as normal. When we rule the world she should get a medal and a huge pension. Until then become a member and learn all she has to share… Links for non members too.
www.birthlove.com
Sara Wickham and Lorna Davies bring serious knowledge about natural birth, childbirth ed and depth to the entire field of midwifery education:
http://www.withwoman.co.uk/
Robbie Davis Floyd
Not everyone will fall in love with her well-documented, highly academic research on the anthropology of birth in our culture…I did. She proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that our practices of birth are simple shamanistic posturing.. no more no less. When faced with voodoo and superstition of modern obstetrics she does not bend. She calls a spade a spade in the crisp dialect of academia.
http://www.davis-floyd.com/index.html
Janine Pavarati Baker. There were some great women in the 1970’s midwifery movement. Women who solidified what it was to be a midwife, what it was to give birth as opposed to being delivered of a child. There is no stronger testament to what birth might be like in heaven tha Janine Pavarati Baker… an acquired taste for some, like meeting a friend along life’s journey for others. Good herbal knowledge, supporter of unassisted homebirth.
http://www.freestone.org/
The Farm Midwives, especially Ina Mae Gaskin, are credited with rediscovering homebirth in the 1970s and offering it to the rest of us through the book, Spiritual Midwifery. They offer information, support and workshops for those in the field.
http://www.thefarm.org/midwives/index.html
Some doctors aren’t just good, they’re Mayer Eisenstein. Many times we forget about family physicans as great doctors for birth. With a long tradition of being the doctor who attends homebirths, this family physican has made it his business and has a vigorously thriving practice doing physician supported homebirth in homes in the Chicago area. +25000 births and counting.
http://homefirst.com/
http://www.efn.org/~djz/birth/homebirth.html
Henci Goer is the “Birth Guru” here and her research is top-notch. Her journal supported arguments against standard medical practice punch holes in the theories that modern obstetrics is a fact-based science…
http://www.parentsplace.com/expert/birthguru
Sheila Kitzinger is one of the big league beauties in the birthing world. A star among the stars. Lots of pro-birth information with a positive attitude.
http://www.sheilakitzinger.com/
Vickie Hall, Midwife
http://www.aboundingjoy.com/toc.htm
Anne Sommers, Midwife
http://www.dear-midwife.com/
Faith Gibson, strong supporter of midwifery
http://www.goodnewsnet.org/
Nancy Wainer Cohen’s site: Author of Silent Knife
http://members.aol.com/nmidwife/
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| Natural Mothering Support |
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Pregnancy yoga
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Breastfeeding pages:
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Photo courtesy Marilyn Nolt, DONA, ACBE
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| Something good to read |
Midwifery Today’s articles more toward the mom than the midwife
http://www.havingababytoday.com/habt/
Need a good happy cry? Touching “Just once more” about having another baby..eep where is my kleenex. Go ahead, just try to read it with a dry eye…http://www.kellymom.com/writings/parenting/just_once_
more.html
Hip Mama… there are mothers who think and then there are mothers that say: I want a tee-shirt that says “Breeder” Let start the riot, it will be televised
"These are the rough-and-ready voices of the next wave of motherhood, and like the generation of feminists before them, they continue to break new, fertile ground." -Amazon.com
http://www.hipmama.com
Boy or Girl? a fun clickable collection of folklore and myth…
http://www.childbirth.org/articles/boyorgirl.html
Sure, I pitched a fit when mothering went “commercial” but we are a target market-- midwifery care supporting, natural product using, whole food eating, Women of Conviction!! We are growing into a horde, that must be listened to… Mothering Magazine will lead the charge!!!
http://www.mothering.com
Sometimes the midwifery styled birthing population bashes the book “What to Expect When You’re Expecting” however, this link goes into great lengths about why those wanting natural births and pregnancies should not support this books point of view. Worth a read.
http://home.earthlink.net/~efindel/wtewye.htm
Breastfeeding, homebirthing, homeschooling, tandem nursing, body integrity respecting, Rasberry Tea Drinkin’ good time in here:
http://www.compleatmother.com
Want to amaze your friends and impress your birth professionals? Take up the exciting hobby of reading medical research for fun. Its not hard and boy howdy can you learn a lot:
Here are some links to get you started quoting rates of intervention to friends and neighbors:
How to search for medical journal info
http://204.17.98.73/midlib/www.htm
How to read a medical journal article
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/collections/read.shtml
Ob journals
http://matweb.hcuge.ch/extern/endo/cours_4e_MREG/
OBGYN_journals.htm
Medical reference library
http://www.med-library.com/medlibrary/
http://www.medical-library.org/
http://www.emedicine.com/
Want to read about the latest in Elective Cesareans? Surgical birth’s place to be:
http://www.obgyn.net
More information than you ever thought you needed about obstetric anesthetic
http://www.obgyn.net/pb/links/mp_anesthesia.htm
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Biblical Midwives:
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15. And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of which the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah: 16. And he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the stools; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him: but if it be a daughter, then she shall live. 17. But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the men children alive. 18. And the king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said unto them, Why have ye done this thing, and have saved the men children alive? 19. And the midwives said unto Pharaoh, Because the Hebrew women are not as the Egyptian women; for they are lively, and are delivered ere the midwives come in unto them. 20. Therefore God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.21. And it came to pass, because the midwives feared God, that he made them houses.
16. And they journeyed from Bethel; and there was but a little way to come to Ephrath: and Rachel travailed, and she had hard labour. 1.7 And it came to pass, when she was in hard labour, that the midwife said unto her, Fear not; thou shalt have this son also.
27. And it came to pass in the time of her travail, that, behold, twins were in her womb. 28. And it came to pass, when she travailed, that the one put out his hand: and the midwife took and bound upon his hand a scarlet thread, saying, This came out first. 29. And it came to pass, as he drew back his hand, that, behold, his brother came out: and she said, How hast thou broken forth? this breach be upon thee: therefore his name was called Pharez. 30. And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zarah.
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