LINKS AND LOCAL RESOURCES

Below are my personal favorite pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and baby care books and DVDs that I highly recommend

PRENATAL YOGA/MEDITATION


PREGNANCY


BIRTH


Breech

  • Scheduled Cesareans: The Best Option for Breech Babies? by Henci Goer

    • Group Beta Strep/Group B Strep/GBS

  • CDC's information about GBS
  • Group B Strep Association
  • Treating Group B Strep Are Antibiotics Necessary? by Christa Novelli

    • The Cascade of Interventions

  • Revealing The Real Risks: Obstetrical Interventions and Maternal Mortality by Marsden Wagner
  • Back To Basics for Safer Childbirth by Consumer Reports - Too many doctors and hospitals are overusing high-tech procedures

    • Induction

  • Big Baby: Is Labor of Induction Necessary? by Henci Goer
  • Cytotec: Safe for Inducing Labor? by Henci Goer
  • FDA's Warning For The Non-Approved Use of Cytotec In Labor and Delivery
  • Misoprostol (Cytotec) For Labor Induction: A Cautionary Tale by Marsden Wagner, M.D.
  • Cytotec: Dangerous Experiment or Panacea? by Ina May Gaskin
  • Elective Induction of Labor by Henci Goer
  • Low Levels of Amniotic Fluid No Risk To Normal Birth
  • "Pit to Distress": Your Ticket To An "Emergency" Cesarean?
  • When Is That Baby Due? by Henci Goer

    • Epidurals

  • The Hidden Risks of Epidurals by Sarah J. Buckley

    • Episiotomy

  • Episiotomy by Henci Goer
  • Saying No To Episiotomy: Getting Through Labor and Delivery In One Piece by Elizabeth Bruce

    • Delayed Cord Clamping

  • Cord Clamp
    • Information on delayed cord clamping
  • Obstetrics: Cutting the Cord Too Soon - Time Magazine article on the benefits of delayed cord clamping/cutting from Friday, April 19, 1963

    • Cord-Blood Banking

  • Consumer Reports: Docs Weigh In On Private Cord-Blood Banking

    • Cesareans

  • Natural birth? Nope, C-Section rates on rise by Peter Korn - Cesarean rate crisis in the United States

    • WATERBIRTH


    HOMEBIRTH


    POSTPARTUM


    CIRCUMCISION

    BREASTFEEDING


    ATTACHMENT PARENTING


    BABYWEARING


    STATE OF OREGON


    DOULAS


    CAR SEAT SAFETY