A collection of Writers, Doctors, Teachers and Wisdom Holders that have helped me the most…
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Pregnancy/Labor
- Spinning Babies®
- Daily activities- Spinning Babies®
- Lamaze International for Parents
- Mother’s Advocate
- Evidence Based Birth
- World Health Organization
- Labor Pain Basics
- 3 R’s movie (coping in labor)- Penny Simkin
- Coping in labor- Penny Simkin
- Real Food for Pregnancy- Lily Nichols, RDN
Postpartum
- Postpartum Sanctuary Plan- Kimberly Johnson
- DONA Postpartum Plan
- Postpartum plan worksheet- Healthy mama hacks
- The Fourth Trimester– Kimberly Ann Johnson
- The First Forty Days– Heng Ou
Babies
- How to “CALMS” a baby- Dr. Carrie Contey
- Wonder Weeks
- The Wonder Weeks– Frans Plooij
- Nino birth-Dr. Nils Bergman
- Kangaroo Mother Care – Dr. Nils Bergman
- Skin to Skin Contact – Dr. Nils Bergman
- Social and emotional intelligence of infants- Dr. Nils Bergman
Breastfeeding
- Breastfeeding Made Simple by Nancy Mohrbacher and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett
- The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by La Leche League International
- Droplet
- Natural Breastfeeding
- Global Health Media- educational videos
- Infant Risk Center
- Kellymom: Evidence-based blog from an IBCLC
- Breastfeeding Inc- Dr. Jack Newman
- La Leche League
- Breastfeeding online
- Getting Started with Breastfeeding- Stanford University
- Dr. Sears: How to know if your baby is getting enough milk
- Breastfeeding made simple
- www.womenshealth.gov/breastfeeding
- International Lactation Consultant Association: IBCLC directory
- Dr. Thomas Hale’s Infant Risk Center: Safe use of medications during breastfeeding (hotline: 806.352.2519)
- Latch On: How to help your baby latch deeply onto the breast
- Biological Nurturing: Positioning while breastfeeding
- Stanford University: Hand/manual expression of milk
- Stanford University: Maximizing milk production with hands-on pumping
- Dr. Jack Newman: Examples of breastfeeding
- The “breast crawl”: Allowing baby to find the breast on its own
- Paced bottle feeding: Breastfeeding-compatible style of bottle feeding
Safe Sleep
- Safe sleep campaign (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development)
- Safe Sleep 7 (La Leche League International)
- Dr. Kathleen Kendall-Tackett safe sleep handout
- Dr. Helen Ball
- Dr. James McKenna
- Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Protocol #6
- Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Laboratory at University of Notre Dame: Safe co-sleeping guidelines
- Sleeping With Your Baby: A Parent’s Guide to Cosleeping by James J. McKenna
Parenting
- Dr. Carrie Contey
- Aha Parenting- Dr. Laura Markham
- Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids– Dr. Laura Markham
- Dr. Daniel Siegel
- Evolutionary Parenting- Dr. Tracy Cassels
- “How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen ” [pdf]
- “The Power of the Pause”- Dr. Carrie Contey at TEDx
- CALMS, the How’s & Why’s- Dr. Carrie Contey
- Triune Brain by Dr. Carrie Contey
- The Conscious Parent- Dr. Shefali Tsabury
- The Wonder Weeks– Frans Plooij
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