Holistic Birth & Parenting Links
Helping You Get Excited to Give Birth Naturally!
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Midwives Supporting Holistic & Instinctive Birth:
Midwife, Neonatal Resuscitation instructor and advocate for the conscious and aware prenate. (Her links page is awesome too!)
Midwife, Teacher of Quantum Midwifery
(The New Paradigm of Care)
Midwife, Teacher in the Undisturbed paradigm
Midwife, Founder of Sacred Birthing
Midwife, Herbalist
Midwife, Russian Birth Project
Midwife, Trust Birth
Midwife, Writer and Teacher
The Farm Midwifery
Midwife
A site for women, midwives, and anyone interested
in creative birth and birth choices
Midwife, author of the Blog Homebirth-A midwife Mutiny
If you're a woman thinking of birthing at home or even another midwife who enjoys discussing midwifery, then please stick around and share your thoughts.
Homebirth Resources:
www.homebirth.net.au- Welcome to my homebirth blog. Here you'll not only find lots of information about myself and my midwifery practice, but also news, comment, videos and photographs covering every aspect of homebirth.
www.homebirth.org.uk-the "everything you need to know " about having a homebirth site!
www.waterbirth.org- Official website of Barbara Harper, RN author of Gentle Birth Choices (this book single handedly convinced me (Sherry) that home birth is at least, if not more safe than hospital birth! It inspired me to birth my first child at home with midwives! Their links page is fantastic too!
Jock Doubleday is founder and director of the California 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation Natural Woman, Natural Man, Inc. The nonprofit advocates natural fertility, natural childbirth, natural infant feeding, natural immunity, and natural remedies for disease. Jock Doubleday is an independent researcher who writes about natural living practices. He also writes plays, screenplays, poetry, and children's stories. Doubleday's ten-year book project, Spontaneous Creation: 101 Reasons Not to Have Your Baby in a Hospital, is his first full-length nonfiction work.
Medical Doctors Supporting Holistic and Instinctive Birth:
Dr. Michel Odent- www.wombecology.com
Michel Odent, MD, has been influencing the history of childbirth and health research for several decades. As a practitioner he developed the maternity unit at Pithiviers Hospital in France in the 1960s and 1970s. With six midwives, he was in charge of about one thousand births a year and achieved excellent statistics with low rates of intervention. Odent is familiarly known as the obstetrician who introduced the concept of birthing pools and home-like birthing rooms. His approach has been featured in eminent medical journals such as The Lancet and in TV documentaries such as the BBC film Birth Reborn. After his hospital career he practiced homebirths. Odent's 21st-century books (The Scientification of Love, The Farmer and the Obstetrician and The Caesarean) may be regarded as a trilogy. They raise urgent questions about the future of our civilizations. Odent is a contributing editor to Midwifery Today magazine and writes an online column for Mothering Magazine.
Sarah Buckley's writing critiques current practices in pregnancy, birth, and parenting from a scientific as well as a personal viewpoint. She encourages us to be fully informed in our decision-making; to listen to our hearts and our intuition; and to claim our rightful role as the real experts in our bodies and our children.
Dr John Stevenson was a GP in a southeast suburb of Melbourne. After nearly twenty years he accidentally became involved in home births.
the Pre- and Perinatal Journal, have established him as
one of the world's leading authorities on the effect of the prenatal and early postnatal environment on personality development
Childbirth Method from Meditation Science and Mind/Body Medicine Empowering Preparation for Childbirth
About the importance of the right circumstances during birth
This Obstetrician's method can help you have a fit pregnancy and a gentle birth using dietary guidelines, reflexology and prenatal yoga
Read why women, including doctors, are choosing the safety of natural childbirth in this day of medically-managed epidurals, inductions, and elective cesareans. Plus, discover what a doctor may not tell you about epidurals and ultrasound. Includes encouraging stories, the latest research, as well as natural comforting for labor in a hospital, birth center or at home. 
http://www.purebirth-australia.com- Need a homebirth but can't find or afford a midwife? Consider the freebirthing choice. Is it for you? Check out the unassisted pregnancy and childbirth resources, and talk to other women on the Purebirth forums.
www.birthkeeper.com- Jeannine Parvati Baker's website. Jeannine coined the term
BIRTHKEEPER- she was an outspoken proponent of FREEBIRTH, a midwife and mother of 6! Dr. Sarah Buckley, author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering had this to say of Jeannine's website "Wow , Birthkeeper is the most luscious site I have ever seen! Your essays deliciously drip with extra-ordinary wisdom and uncommon sense!"
Anthropologists
& others Supporting
Holistic and Instinctive Birth:
Author, Film Maker
Medical Writer & Researcher
Anthropologist
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Natural Birth and Parenting Magazines:
Kindred Magazine publishes groundbreaking content & fearless editorial making it the world's most endorsed sustainable & natural parenting magazine
The Natural Child Project! Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust. Our society has no more urgent task.
Inspiring Natural Familes
The original natural family living magazine, founded in 1976. Reader-supported
and trusted by thinking people around the world who want positive alternatives
to high cost, high consumption lifestyles for themselves and their families.
An Independant Magazine for families!
