RESOURCES

Functional Care Providers

Acupuncture

Acumamas Vancouver
Dr. Briana Peddle Serenity Health

Clinical Counselor

Kate Mckay, Serenity Health

Chiropractic

Mainstreet Chiropractic Vancouver
Optimum Chiropractic Port Moody
Dr. Emily Mcmanus Langley

Exercise/Fitness

Kim Vopni the Vagina Coach
Prenatal Yoga with Salina

Lacation Consultants

Katy Teasdale Simply Nourish

Nutrition

Selin Bilgin - Fertility, Pregnancy, Postpartum Holistic Nutrition

Placenta Services

Monarch Mothering Michelle Peltier

Prenatal Classes

My Powerful Birth - Group, private and Semi-private options

Breastfeeding

Breast Crawl Video
Attaching Your Baby at the Breast Video
Nipple placement and Tongue position Video
Dr. Jack Newman - videos
Laid Back Breastfeeding Video
Laid Back Breastfeeding info

PostPartum

Physical Recovery
Ab Tank by Bellies Inc. (use code MICHELLET for 10% off)

Baby Communication
Dunstan Technique on Oprah - How babies can communicate with us.

Intact/ Circumcision
Peaceful Parenting Functions of the Foreskin (article)
Quranic Path Circumcision - Does the Qur'an Approve it? (article)
The American Muslim Did You Know Prophet Muhammad Wasn’t Circumcised? (article)
Cut: Slicing through the Myths Of Circumcision (images of adult penis, Video)
Circumcision: A Source of Jewish Pain (article)
This is for the Mother

Intact Care of Boys
No Retraction Agreement
How to care for an intact Penis

Conditions for Pregnancy or Birth

Undisturbed Birth
Hormones are your friends Dr. Sarah Buckley

3rd Stage of Birth
The 3rd Stage of Labour - Dr. Sarah Buckley
Podcast 3rd Stage with Sarah Buckley (appx 23 minutes in the talk about cord traction)
30 Minute Third Stage
Department of Midwifery

Meconium
The Curse of Meconium Stained Liquor
INDICATIONS FOR DISCUSSION, CONSULTATION AND TRANSFER OF CARE - By the College of Midwives of British Columbia " Whenever meconium is present where the membranes rupture so close to the time of birth that transport from home to hospital would be unsafe and a timely consult is not possible, the midwife in attendance must always be prepared to intubate any nonvigorous newborn as per the Neonatal Resuscitation Program."

Breech
The Case for Physiological Breech Birth by Jessica Austin

Cord Clamping
Magical Umbilical Cords (great photos )
Twin Photo Delayed Cord Clamping
90 Seconds to Change the World - Alan Greene

Pelvic Floor
Prepare to Push - Pelvic floor health and healing
Bellies Inc. and Bellies Inc. on Facebook

Cervical Exams/
The "C" Word by Jessica Austin

Membrane Sweeps

What is a Stretch and Sweep- Sarah Wickham

Ultra Sounds

Ultrasound Scans, Cause for Concern -Sarah Buckley

Gestational Diabetes
Don't Drink the 'Glucola' without Reading the Label - Aviva Romm
G is for Gestational Diabetes - The Modern Doula (Australian, and very many great points made that can be applicable here in BC)
Blood Sugar Instability & Gestational Diabetes -Pomegranate Midwives

GBS
GBS Resources By Jessica Austin
Podcast 10 Myths about GBS

Breech
Physiological Breech Birth By Jessica Austin
Moxa Sticks

Vitamin K
Midwives Informed Consent for Vitamin K
Wise Woman Way Of Birth Vitamin K
Evidence Based Birth Vitamin K