Websites

• Childbirth Connection

  • Full of great resources and information about your rights, and how to have the birth you want in the setting you want. Non-biased info on all provider types. Lots of printouts and guides.

• MANA- Midwives Alliance of North America

  • Research and resources on midwifery education, skills, care, and the safety of homebirth.

• Evidence Based Birth

  • Excellent site that has updated, evidence based information on all things pertaining to birth. Recent studies, risks of procedures, and so much more.

 

 

Documentaries

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• Why not home? The surprising birth choices of doctors and nurses.

  • Follows a group of hospital providers who choose home birth, and why.

• The Business of Being Born

  • Featuring Rikki Lake, follows her story and discusses how money and business drives the state of maternity care in hospitals.

• Laboring Under An Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. The Real Thing

  • How the media influences our expectations of birth.

• Orgasmic Birth

  • The joy of an unmedicated birth, and how generations of people have been imprinted to think that pregnancy and birth is a disease.

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Articles

• Choosing Home Birth

• 9 Reasons Why Some Women Choose Homebirth

• Why Leaving Home is the First Intervention

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Books

• Birth Your Way -  Sheila Kitzinger

• Ina May's Guide to Childbirth- Ina May Gaskin

• Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way - Susan McCutcheon

• The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother - Heng Ou

• A Child is Born- Lars Hamberger

• Naturally Healthy Babies and Children - Aviva Jill Romm

• Your Amazing Newborn - Marshall and Phyllis Klaus​​​​