Resources
Pregnancy & Childbirth Resources
Websites
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Spinning Babies has tons of information on Breech Babies along with recommended Daily Activities and Weekly Activities to help increase chances of baby being in an optimal position, along with a plethora of other information related to pregnancy.
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The Miles Circuit is a series of positions that help to move your baby into a favorable position.
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Evidence Based Birth puts evidence based information into the hands of communities, so they can make empowered choices.
Books
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Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth - Ina May shares the benefits and joy of natural childbirth by showing women how to turs in their bodies for a healthy and fulfilling birthing experience.
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Real Food for Pregnancy - Lily Nichols: Clear answers on what to eat and why, with research to back up every recommendation.
Real Food for Gestational Diabetes - Lily Nichols: Offers an alternative to the conventional nutrition approach that embraces nutrient-dense and delicious foods that nourish you and baby without causing high blood sugar.
Documentaries & Podcasts
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The Business of Being Born is a documentary that explores the contemporary experience of childbirth in the United States. It compares various childbirth methods, including midwives, natural births, epidurals, and cesarean sections.
*This documentary can be hard to come by. If you are local, I do have a DVD copy that can be borrowed.
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The Down to Birth podcast provides weekly episodes on evidence-based talks about having a safe and informed birth. Listen to the birth stories of their clients, listeners and celebrities, catch their expert-interviews, and join the monthly Q&As. Become informed, empowered, and have a great time in the process.
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Birthing Instincts is a podcast hosted by Dr. Stuart Fischbein and Midwife Blyss Young. They have weekly conversations as they blend wisdom and humor in discussing recent births, the latest research, traditional healing, and instinctual birth.
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The Birth Hour is a podcast dedicated to women sharing their birth stories.
Taboo Topic Resources
Vaccines
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National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) is an independent clearinghouse for information on diseases and vaccine science, policy, law and the ethical principle of informed consent.
Informed Choice Action Network (ICAN) was created with the goal of providing every person with the right to informed consent. They believe that by holding regulators accountable, individuals will become empowered to make truly informed decisions about their own health and the health of their families.
Children’s Health Defense is an organization with a mission to end childhood health epidemics by working aggressively to eliminate harmful exposures, hold those responsible accountable and establish safeguards to prevent future harm
Michigan for Vaccine Choice is an organization dedicated to providing educational information about the subject of vaccinations, while protecting and supporting individuals and parents to make vaccine decisions in Michigan. (Similar advocacy groups are available for most states. If you cannot find yours, please let me know)
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vaccine.guide is a website that contains a collection of research and information regarding vaccines and the infectious diseases they aim to prevent.
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Just the Inserts was created as a way to help read and understand package inserts for vaccines and other commonly prescribed medications.
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To locate the package insert for each vaccine you can either use a search engine and search for the vaccine name + “package insert”, or you can use immunize.org and their database of inserts or go right to the FDA website.
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The below lings lead to the Amazon listing. Feel free to buy wherever you prefer.
Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies
Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness
Rho(D) Immune Globulin
Circumcision
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Various studies have been done on the effects of circumcision. This Psychology Today article does a great job with summarizing the studies and providing citation for the studies discussed.
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Your Whole Baby is a website dedicated to providing information related to circumcision, along with information on how to care for an intact baby.
Saving Our Sons is another advocacy website providing information on circumcision and intact care.
CIRP (Circumcision Information and Resource Pages) provides an extensive reference library and informational pages on all topics related to circumcision.
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Curious about the actual circumcision rate? Click Here