Transform Your Pregnancy and Birth with Knowledge

• Ina May Gaskin’s Guide to Childbirth            
• Rebecca Dekker - Babies Are Not Pizzas
• Sarah J Buckley- Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering
• Mindful Birthing
• Pain-Free Birth
• Birth Without Fear
• Birth From Within
• Real Food in Pregnancy

"The Business of Being Born" is a must for all women! You can stream it from their site. Other recommendations include "Heads Up, Why Not Home?", "Mother May I?", "These are My Hours", and "The Circumcision Movie". 

Evidenced Based Birth for all research surrounding birth. Spinning Babies has lots of exercises to prepare you and your baby for the best birth.

There are literally hundreds of podcasts and blogs…it is hard to pick our favorites, but we will list some to start with!

• Birthing Instincts (blog & podcast)
• The Natural Birth Talk (podcast)
• Evidence-Based Birth (blog and podcast)
• Fear Free Childbirth (blog and podcast)
• Birthful (podcast)
• Doing It At Home (podcast)
• Informed Pregnancy (podcast)
• Down to Birth (Podcast)
• Happy Homebirth (podcast)
• The VBAC Link (blog and podcast)
• The Holistic OBGYN (podcast)

Midwives support breastfeeding for our mothers and babies because we know it contributes to lifelong health for both!  Many of us are lactation counselors, specialists, educators, or consultants.

 Check out:

•  La Leche League International
• Kellymom
• Milky Mama
• Milkology
• The Leaky Boob

You can research any of the following ways to help you cope in labor:

The Bradley Method  

Hypnobirth

Hypnobabies

Christian Hypnobirth

Mindful Birthing

Easing Labor Pain