Great Websites

 

La Leche League International

Our Mission is to help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother support, encouragement, information, and education, and to promote a better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the healthy development of the baby and mother.

 

Science and Sensibility

A Research Blog About Healthy Pregnancy, Birth & Beyond

 

Mindful Motherhood is a practice that is focused on helping you be aware in the present moment, in your body, and connected with your baby, even when the going gets rough.

 

Queensland Decision Making Aid 

Working towards consumer-focused maternity care that is integrated, evidence based and provides optimal choices for women in Queensland."If you're trying to make a decision about a procedure or test these decision aids are great!

 

Spinning Babies  

Easier Childbirth with Fetal Positioning.

 

24 Hour Crib Side Assistance

Hey Dad. Looking for a little help?You've come to the right place. This is a guy's site - developed by fathers for fathers. We've been in your shoes. We all remember what it was like to be a new dad - overwhelming, confusing, intimidating, tiring, but also amazing and just really cool. We want to help you get to the cool part by answering your basic questions about babies, new moms and new dads.

 

Ask Dr. Sears

In our experience of parenting our own eight children and 40 years of pediatric practice, we’ve learned a lot of strategies.

 

Giving Birth with Confidence 

Real women sharing stories, finding answers and supporting each other.

 

Baby-Friendly Newfoundland and Labrador (NL) is the primary forum for protecting, promoting and supporting NL families during pregnancy and in the first years after birth. The website is directed at pregnant women, mothers and their families. The goal of the site is to support parents in choosing and continuing to breastfeed.

 

The Breastfeeding Reporter

In 2008 the International Lactation Consultant Association (ILCA) officially recognized Nancy’s contributions to the field of breastfeeding by awarding her the designation FILCA, Fellow of the International Lactation Consultant Association. Nancy was one of the first group of 16 to be recognized for their lifetime achievements in breastfeeding.

 

Mothering

The Home for Natural Family Living

 

Birthing From Within

No matter what kind of birth you are hoping and planning for (home birth, hospital birth, birth center birth, water birth, cesarean birth, natural birth, vaginal birth, medicated birth, etc.) you can birth-in-awareness, and we have something here to meet your needs and pique your interest. 

 

 

 

 

The Myth of the Pretty Birth 

What are some of the real things that happen in birth that nobody actually wants on camera? Let me give you the short list: -Vomiting-Pooping-Crying-Screaming-Motherly "positions"-Grunting-Burping-Shaking-SweatingBirth may also involve the following:-Mucous plugs-A variety of fluids-Blood-Orifices-Primal, gut instinct behavior.

 

Ecstatic Birth: The Hormonal Blueprint of Labor

Four major hormonal systems are active during labor and birth. These involve oxytocin, the hormone of love; endorphins, hormones of pleasure and transcendence; epinephrine and norepinephrine, hormones of excitement; and prolactin, the mothering hormone.

 

Misplaced Fears in Longer Labour

A new study in the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology suggests that women in labor may be subject to unnecessary interventions by doctors who wrongly fear labor has become prolonged.

 

The Best We Know How

All Mama's and Papa's should read this one!

 

Why African Babies Don't Cry

I am fascinated by childbirth and baby rearing in other cultures and I think this is a great look at another culture!

 

How Does One PLAN for Birth?

Today, many couples arrive at the hospital with their birth plans in hand butstill feel powerless to be active participants in their birth process.

 

 After the Birth, What a Family Needs

If you’re too shy to ask for help and make straight requests of people, I suggest sending the following list out to your friends and family. These are the things I have found to be missing in every house with a new baby.

 

Wait! Don't Wash That Newborn 

I learned that the vernix offers so many benefits and protection to a newborn, thus, why the baby is born covered in it to begin with. 

 

Your Grandchild is Breastfed?

55 years of mother-to-mother sharing and current research are reflected in The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding 8th Edition - available now in the online store, plus its FREE online Tear-Sheet Toolkit, Chapter 20

 

How to Have the Best Cesarean

You may feel disappointed that you must plan a cesarean for your safety or your baby’s.Here are some ideas for making the cesarean birth of your baby very special andpersonally satisfying for you, your partner, and your baby.

 

What Babies Know About Breastfeeding

Many years ago, a mother called me for help with her baby who was about 24 hours old and still hadn’t breastfed.

 

Your Baby The Mammal

For generations, we thought human babies were little helpless lumps, but that’s because we fought our instincts and kept our babies almost entirely out of their natural habitat.

 

Optimal Fetal Positioning 

Understanding the way our bodies were designed can lend an enormous amount of insight into what makes labor work, and what doesn't.

 

I Had to Learn to Love My Baby

"Exhausted and sore from the birth, I wish the baby would disappear for a few hours so I could have my old life back."

 

I am Not a Human Pacifier

I am not a warm human substitute for a cold silicone and plastic doohickey.

 

The Seven Natural Laws of Breastfeeding

Breastfeeding may be natural, but it may also be more challenging than you expect. Some mothers encounter doubts and difficulties, from struggling with the first few feedings to finding a gentle and loving way to comfortably wean from the breast