Resources
We have a large list of resources in the following categories:
Free Lending Library for Clients:
Books:
DVDs and Videos:
Highly recommended local businesses for parenting support:
Pregnancy Products:
Breastfeeding Support:
Cloth Diapers:
Baby Product Rentals:
Lactation Support:
We highly recommend that mothers (and their partners) attend a La Leche League meeting prenatally. This is an excellent eduacational tool and a resource you will already be familiar with if you choose to use it postpartum! Click here for local meetings!
We also highly recommend that breastfeeding mothers watch these videos to help prepare!
Take some time to view ourYoutube Playlist as well. We've compiled our favorite videos of laboring mothers and informative videos for you!
Afterbirth:
Here are some links about different options you have right after your baby is born:
Placentophagy
Lotus birth
Cord Blood Registry
- Pediatricians
- OB/GYN's
- Midwives
- Lactation Consultants
- Parents of Multiples Support
- Parenting Support
- Support Professionals for Mood Disorders
- Breastfeeding Support
- Equipment Rental
- and many more!
Free Lending Library for Clients:
Books:
- The Vaccine Book
- Birthing From Within
- The Baby Sleep Book
- The Birth Partner
- Happiest Baby on the Block
- Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
- The Nursing Mother's Companion
- Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year
- Real Food for Mother and Baby
DVDs and Videos:
- Orgasmic Birth
- The Business of Being Born
- Laugh and Learn About Breastfeeding
- Happiest Baby on the Block
- Infant Massage Instruction
Highly recommended local businesses for parenting support:
Pregnancy Products:
Breastfeeding Support:
Cloth Diapers:
Baby Product Rentals:
Lactation Support:
We highly recommend that mothers (and their partners) attend a La Leche League meeting prenatally. This is an excellent eduacational tool and a resource you will already be familiar with if you choose to use it postpartum! Click here for local meetings!
We also highly recommend that breastfeeding mothers watch these videos to help prepare!
Take some time to view ourYoutube Playlist as well. We've compiled our favorite videos of laboring mothers and informative videos for you!
Afterbirth:
Here are some links about different options you have right after your baby is born:
Placentophagy
Lotus birth
Cord Blood Registry
Some information from Lamaze!
Giving women the freedom to eat and drink as they like is part of Lamaze International’s Six Healthy Birth Practices. Based on recommendations by the World Health Organization and backed by extensive research that supports a woman’s natural ability to give birth, these practices are:
• Let labor begin on its own
• Walk, move around and change positions throughout labor
• Bring a loved one, friend or doula for continuous support
• Avoid interventions that are not medically necessary
• Avoid giving birth on your back and follow your body's urges to push
• Keep mother and baby together; it's best for mother, baby and breastfeeding
Restricting women from eating and drinking freely is one of many routine interventions that has not proven a medical benefit to mothers and babies, and can impose harm. Other common routine interventions include continuous fetal monitoring, coached pushing, being positioned on your back in labor, and requiring repeat cesarean surgeries for women with a prior cesarean.
• Let labor begin on its own
• Walk, move around and change positions throughout labor
• Bring a loved one, friend or doula for continuous support
• Avoid interventions that are not medically necessary
• Avoid giving birth on your back and follow your body's urges to push
• Keep mother and baby together; it's best for mother, baby and breastfeeding
Restricting women from eating and drinking freely is one of many routine interventions that has not proven a medical benefit to mothers and babies, and can impose harm. Other common routine interventions include continuous fetal monitoring, coached pushing, being positioned on your back in labor, and requiring repeat cesarean surgeries for women with a prior cesarean.