Intro to ChildBirth Resources

• FREE webinar Medical Racism

• How Midwifery (Racially) Evolved 

• THE STATE OF THE World's Midwifery 2021 

• BlackMamasMatterToolkits 

• Black Birthing Bill of Rights – The NAABB 

• About Us | The Bridge 

• Cultural Somatics Institute

• Anatomy of Pregnancy 

• Slideshow | Your Body throughout Pregnancy

• Conception to birth -- visualized | Alexander Tsiaras TED Talk 

• Hormonal Physiology 

  • The Role of Hormones in Childbirth

  • https://www.nationalpartnership.org/our-work/resources/health-care/maternity/hormonal-physiology-of-childbearing.pdf 

  • Pathway to a Healthy Birth 

• Evidence Based Birth YouTube channel: hormones https://youtu.be/Zp-_HCxDrP8 

• https://everymothercounts.org/choicesinchildbirth - New Series on making choices in maternity care

• Cochrane Reviews on Pregnancy and Childbirth

• Six Steps to a Safer Birth

• Mother's Advocate 

• The Body in Birth: & ways to prevent tearing 

• Evidence Based Birth

• To search evidence based research https://scholar.google.com/ 

• ACOG Approaches to Limit Interventions

• New ACOG Committee Opinion Aligns with Lamaze Six Healthy Birth Practices 

• Beyond too little, too late and too much, too soon: a pathway towards evidence-based, respectful maternity care worldwide

• https://www.unfpa.org/sowmy  State of the Worlds Midwifery 2021

• RESPECTFUL MATERNITY CARE:

• RESPECTFUL CARE at BIRTH NYC

• Informed Consent for Giving Birth in Hospital 

•  Rights of Childbearing Women 

• Tools to Measure Respectful Maternity Care 

• A resource for everyday people to defend human rights during labor and birth 

• White Ribbon Alliance: Resources 

• Key Questions Cards – File Download

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• Birth Preferences

  • Free Visual Birth Plan Template (Doctors & Nurses Love This!). 

  • What is Birth Cartography

  • The Book – The Birth Map

• The ARRIVE study

• Inducing Labour  

• Too many healthy women are having their labour induced for no identified medical reason, our study shows 

• https://www.sarawickham.com/topic-resources/post-term-pregnancy-and-induction-of-labour-resources/ 

• https://www.sarawickham.com/articles-2/nice-guideline-on-inducing-labour/ 

• In Your Own Time

• Five questions to ask if you're offered induction of labour - Dr Sara Wickham 

• https://themidwivescauldron.buzzsprout.com/1178486/9545341-an-interview-with-dr-sara-wickham-no-2  - great podcast on induction 

• decision guide for induction  

• https://evidencebasedbirth.com/evidence-on-pitocin-during-the-third-stage-of-labor/ 

• https://consumer.healthday.com/b-3-15-most-women-can-give-birth-naturally-even-when-water-breaks-early-study-2650993083.html?mc_cid=0cb38b9de0&mc_eid=15a21fb3fc 

• Evidence on: IV Fluids during Labor 

• https://childbirth-u.com/safe-at-home-or-birth-center/  Good new article on safely of home/birth center vs hospital for low risk people 

• World-first study links birth interventions and long-term childhood illness 

• On My Departure From Hospital-Based Birth: A Reflection of a physician  

• Mapping Collaboration Across Birth Settings - Midwives 

• Ibu Robin Lim: Home 

• Home - Commonsense Childbirth Inc. 

• www.birthwithoutbias.com 

• MICROBIOME COURSES: Home 

• Join our Community of Professionals Birth Psychologist-APPPAH 

• Improving Our Maternity Care Now Four Care Models Decision Makers Must Implement for Healthier Moms and Babies.   

• Resources and Support for Black Maternal Health

• http://www.leapfroggroup.org/ratings-reports/rate-c-sections

• Resources Childbirth Connection 

• Advocacy Toolkit 

• WHO labour care guide: user's manual 

• Changes in Home Births by Race and Hispanic Origin and State of Residence of Mother: United States, 2019–2020 and 2020–2021

• The International. Childbirth Initiative:12 Steps to Safe and Respectful MotherBaby-Family Maternity Care 

Watch  the International Childbirth Initiative  ICI 12 steps webinar series.  These webinars are so valuable and will provide you with many  insights to respectful, evidence based, collaborative care as well as  creating and supporting sites to implement the 12 steps for Safe and Respectful MotherBaby-Family Maternity Care.  Each webinar will have you cheering - especially step 4 with great research on doulas