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AIMS - Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services
This site is an excellent resource, containing a comprehensive list of articles ranging in scope
from Active Birth to Work & Pregnancy.
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Birth Alliance
Birth Alliance.com is a union of alternative childbirth resources. Find Midwives, Doula's, and Childbirth Educators in
California. You'll also find birth stories, childbirth related articles, a host of resources, extensive links, and
more! This site grows daily. Place Birth Alliance.com with your bookmarks and return to watch this new site grow
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Birth Centers Online
A site that brings together information on a number of topics for expectant parents and professionals.
Also provides a list of books that they suggest and which are available through Amazon.
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Birth.net - The commonsense guide to pregnancy and birth
This website offers a number of insightful articles on various birth and pregnancy topics. It links to
Amazon for sales of books and videos. Has some good links to various birth magazines.
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Birth Spirit
An exert from the homepage:
"Midwives need to be vigilant to ensure the defining of appropriate midwifery practice is not colonized
by obstetric thought. Any guiding must reflect the essential Midwifery Model of Care in the evidence
amassed and the way in which it is applied ... Guildelines quickly become claimed as 'standard practice'
- which is then passed on to students as midwifery knowledge ... A great deal of power is given to
Guidelines ... this impacts on how far a midwife can 'stray' from the dominant medicalised culture of birth ... "
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Birth Rights: Healing After Caesarean Inc.
Aims to provide a support network for women who've had a previous c/section(s), and to increase
the awareness of these women's needs to their health-carers within the medical profession.
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Birthwise
These pages are a resource and information guide for practicing and aspiring midwives, mothers to be and anyone
interested in midwifery, birth, pregnancy, breastfeeding and parenting. This site will provide the user with an
excellent start to maternity links and information.
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Birthing the Future
This very well put together site containing some information. Suzanne Arms site.
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Birth Psychology
This site explores the many mental and emotional dimensions of pregnancy and birth in everything
from scholarly articles to personal stories and late-breaking headlines.
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Childbirth.org
An extensive site that provides a variety of information for parents to be. They are linked to Amazon to
offer a variety of books on birth.
This collection of fact sheets and information is of particular note:
International Cesarean Awareness Network & VBAC Information
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The Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library is an invaluable source of systematic reviews in the field
of childbirth, midwifery and breastfeeding. It should be considered a manditory
reference for all practising childbirth educators and midwives. There is also
some information on the Cochrane
Collaboration, the non-profit organisation devoted to gathering these research
results.
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Cord Blood Registry
Recent advances in medical research have discovered that the blood in a
baby's umbilical cord has special properties and cells that make it
invaluable for a wide range of medical problems. Visit this site to see
what this can mean for you.
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E-Pregnancy.com
This site provides the reader with information from before conception to after birth, including articles,
interactive features, forums and other ideas and resources.
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Elizabeth Noble Web Site
This site contains details of lectures and workshops for professionals and parents. She offers courses in
prenatal and postpartum exercise. They have a small catalogue which offers books, videos, audio and
exercise equipment.
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Friends of Active Birth
Friends of the Birth Centre is a non profit organisation established by parents who have birthed at the
Royal Women's Hospital Birth Centre in Brisbane.
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Medinex
The goal of Medinex.com is to provide the safest health search for medical information available on the
Internet. By partnering with disease specific organizations, who are the experts in their field,
Medinex.com becomes the safe medical portal for hospitals, physicians and their patients.
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Editorial OB SS
Spanish website relating to pregnancy, birth and labour.
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Mother Friendly
Established in 1996, the Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS) is a collaborative
effort of numerous individuals and more than 50 organizations representing over 90,000 members.
Their mission is to promote a wellness model of maternity care that will improve birth outcomes
and substantially reduce costs.
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Online Birth Center
This site features a number of articles containing original details about birth,
pregnacy, parenting and nutrition. It also draws together links and sites into
a comprehensive index, classifying the information into subject categories.
Worth a visit.
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Pinky My Child
From unborn child to grown child, My Child tackles the reality of caring for your child as well
as the reality of being a child.
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Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond Resource Guide
Originally created to provide community based childbirth education classes, this site now includes pre-conceptual
care, pre-natal care, birthcare in your choice of setting, a vaginal birth after caesarean support service, free
pregnancy & birth information service and post natal care.
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Pregnancy/Childbirth at About
A slickly-produced site presenting the latest news in the world of pregnancy and childbirth,
with links to important articles and features. It also presents a week-by-week listing
of pregnancy events, and an electronic newsletter.
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Pregnancy Info
Helping you through your Pregnancy from pre-conception to the early years of childhood.
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Pregnancy.org by parents, for parents
An excellent resourse for parents. In particular this site contains an excellent pregnancy calendar. A very novel
idea: you enter the date of conception, and a custom calendar is constructed, showing the progress of your baby, along
with key dates, and helpful advice. Of course, this should be taken as a guide, as every birth is unique.
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Sabrina's Pregnancy Page
Features a number of FAQs, maintained by Sabrina, on pregnancy nutrition, birth
planning, general pregnancy, and others. There is a page which shows
photographs from Sabrina's cesarean section, which are informative, and not
too graphic. Also provided are links to a significant amount of midwifery
and pregnancy information, as well as details about the mailing lists run by
Sabrina.
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The Sure Start Volunteer Doula Project
Newland & Avenues Sure Start has developed a pioneering project to recruit, train and match up
volunteer Doulas with pregnant women who need support at what can be a lonely and difficult time.
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TummyTub Australia
Developed in co-operation with physicians, midwives and nursery nurses to ease the transition from the
secure environment of the womb to the new world. The unique womb-shape helps babies to relax in the
familiar foetal position. Beneficial for unsettled and colicky babies, wind and sleeping problems. The
TummyTub® is endorsed by medical professionals as the best way to bath babies.
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Wonderful Birth
This website offers to inspire, empower and better prepare you for a wonderful birth experience.
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Your Special Newborn - A guide for parents of premies
A site aimed at providing parents of premature babies an insight into care and development of
their newborn. Contain an extensive links page including links to other premie stories.
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Bornfree! The Unassisted Childbirth Page
A nice site that covers many aspects of unassisted homebirths. Includes a photo gallery of homebirths.
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Mamatoto
Mamatoto Resources & Birth Centre is a full-service childbirth centre offering care, support and education during pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period.
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