Links
General Resources
- Massachusetts Midwives Alliance is an organization of midwives from MA who collectively develop guidelines for homebirth midwifery care and provide support to and for midwifery in MA.
- https://www.postpartumdepression.org/ - Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious mood disorder that affects mothers, partners and families after childbirth.
- Babiesincommon.com: Prenatal and parenting classes and groups, lactation support, nursing bra and baby carrier fittings, massage therapy.
- ZipMilk MA is a community service of the Massachusetts Breastfeeding Coalition, providing listings for breastfeeding resources based on ZIP code. Names and contact information are provided through the Massachusetts Lactation Consultant Association, La Leche League, Nursing Mothers Council, Massachusetts WIC, and local hospitals and community groups. These resources are not a substitute for medical advice.
- https://www.consumersadvocate.org/online-therapy Within the guide, you can find a comparison of 19 different online therapy apps and consumer reviews with each of them.
- Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
Homebirth Links
Studies on the Safety of Homebirth
- The Most Scientific Birth Is Often the Least Technological Birth (The Atlantic)
- Perinatal and maternal outcomes by planned place of birth for healthy women with low risk pregnancies: the Birthplace in England national prospective cohort study (British Medical Journal)
- Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America (British Medical Journal)
- Home Births with Midwife Safe As Hospital for Babies, Fewer Infections and Less Bleeding for Moms (Natural News)
- Midwife-led versus other models of care for childbearing women (The Cochrane Library - the “midwives are awesome for low risk moms” study)
- Hospital policy of withholding food during childbirth coming under scrutiny (Cleveland Plain Dealer)
- Big push for home births: Too many babies are being born in hospital, say doctors (London Daily Mail)
- More Interventions at Delivery Not Linked to Healthier Newborns, Study Shows (Science Daily)
- Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician (Canadian Medical Association Journal - THE big study on the safety of home birth)
Websites
- Homebirth Unveiled - The Voice & Heart of Homebirth Mothers (Elephant Journal)
- Homebirth (Compleat Mother)
- Giving Birth Naturally (great videos of unmedicated birth, in hospitals and home)
- Is Home Birth Right for Me? (Articlesbase)
- The Joys of Home Birthing (Passionate Homemaking)
- Home Birth Is Safer, Cheaper and Can End Disparities in Moms Dying (Colorlines)
Videos
- Nice home birth in Maine
- Home birth
- Great home birth montage
- A “Normal Spontaneous Vaginal Delivery” (NSVD) in the hospital
- Really inspirational montage of women who had a c/section for “failure to progress” or “cephalo-pelvic disproportion” (i.e., “your baby is too big”), who had their subsequent babies at home, often bigger babies!
- From c-section to home water birth
- First birth at home in water