Links worth clicking
Online Resources for Pregnancy Health & Wellbeing
http://bendigo.positivebirthing.com.au | Sharing wisdom, knowledge and stories with others on their birthing journeys. BPB aims to teach, motivate and inspire women and their families to experience positive pregnancy, birthing and early parenting journeys. BPB holds public events in the Bendigo area.
Birth Memoirs | Birth Memoirs is about more than the facts of our stories. We are less interested in controversial debates and more interested in how you felt when you held your slippery baby for the first time.
https://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/index.asp | Midwifery Today has lots of inspiring and interesting articles about birth and pregnancy, homebirth and midwifery.
Mind the Bump | Mind the Bump is a free Mindfulness Meditation App to help individuals and couples support their mental and emotional wellbeing in preparation for having a baby and becoming a new parent
http://www.primalhealthresearch.com/ | "Primal Health Research" explores correlations between the 'primal period' (fetal life, perinatal period and year following birth) and health and personality traits in later life. This site has an incredible data base of research towards these links.
Sarah Buckley | Australia’s own, Sarah wrote “Gentle Birth Gentle Mothering” There is lots more great information on her website.
Spinning Babies | An extremely useful site. We recommend all our clients look at this site and use the exercises to help them in their birth. Spinning Babies offers advice on optimal foetal position to support normal, natural childbirth.
http://transform.childbirthconnection.org/reports/physiology/ | The unprecedented synthesis of scientific research on how hormone systems function from late pregnancy through the early postpartum period concludes that commonly used maternity interventions — such as labour induction, epidural analgesia…
http://www.wombecology.com/ | This website focuses on the life period with the highest adaptability and vulnerability to environmental factors - the period inside the womb. There are many articles from Michel Odent on this site.
Birth Memoirs | Birth Memoirs is about more than the facts of our stories. We are less interested in controversial debates and more interested in how you felt when you held your slippery baby for the first time.
https://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/index.asp | Midwifery Today has lots of inspiring and interesting articles about birth and pregnancy, homebirth and midwifery.
Mind the Bump | Mind the Bump is a free Mindfulness Meditation App to help individuals and couples support their mental and emotional wellbeing in preparation for having a baby and becoming a new parent
http://www.primalhealthresearch.com/ | "Primal Health Research" explores correlations between the 'primal period' (fetal life, perinatal period and year following birth) and health and personality traits in later life. This site has an incredible data base of research towards these links.
Sarah Buckley | Australia’s own, Sarah wrote “Gentle Birth Gentle Mothering” There is lots more great information on her website.
Spinning Babies | An extremely useful site. We recommend all our clients look at this site and use the exercises to help them in their birth. Spinning Babies offers advice on optimal foetal position to support normal, natural childbirth.
http://transform.childbirthconnection.org/reports/physiology/ | The unprecedented synthesis of scientific research on how hormone systems function from late pregnancy through the early postpartum period concludes that commonly used maternity interventions — such as labour induction, epidural analgesia…
http://www.wombecology.com/ | This website focuses on the life period with the highest adaptability and vulnerability to environmental factors - the period inside the womb. There are many articles from Michel Odent on this site.
Antenatal testing in Pregnancy
https://midwifethinking.com/2010/11/14/testing-testing/ | When you are pregnant there is a range of recommended antenatal tests. This is from the very clever midwife Dr Rachel Reed, of Midwife Thinking.
https://app.box.com/shared/ttnka2pshy | This table helps you to understand these investigations.
http://www.health.gov.au/antenatal | This link takes you to the Australian National Antenatal Care Guidelines. The recommendations in the Guidelines cover a wide range of care including routine physical examinations, screening tests and social and lifestyle advice for women with an uncomplicated pregnancy.
https://app.box.com/shared/ttnka2pshy | This table helps you to understand these investigations.
http://www.health.gov.au/antenatal | This link takes you to the Australian National Antenatal Care Guidelines. The recommendations in the Guidelines cover a wide range of care including routine physical examinations, screening tests and social and lifestyle advice for women with an uncomplicated pregnancy.
Blogs we like
Midwife Thinking | The aim of this blog to stimulate thinking and share knowledge, evidence and views on birth and midwifery.
http://www.sarawickham.com/ | This website is the on-line home of midwife-author-teacher-researcher Sara Wickham. It contains hundreds of free articles and blog posts for anyone seeking information about birth and midwifery.
http://www.mothering.com/articles/the-last-days-of-pregnancy-a-place-of-in-between/ | About waiting for the baby.
http://www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/ | This Australian site is jam packed with information, articles, blogs and chat forums. It has lots of good information on a range of topics.
http://www.sarawickham.com/ | This website is the on-line home of midwife-author-teacher-researcher Sara Wickham. It contains hundreds of free articles and blog posts for anyone seeking information about birth and midwifery.
http://www.mothering.com/articles/the-last-days-of-pregnancy-a-place-of-in-between/ | About waiting for the baby.
http://www.bellybelly.com.au/birth/ | This Australian site is jam packed with information, articles, blogs and chat forums. It has lots of good information on a range of topics.
Body Work
Beautiful Cervix Project | The Beautiful Cervix Project is a grassroots movement celebrating the beauty and intricacies of women’s bodies and fertility
http://mamashanti.com.au/ | Nina Isabella’s site. Great information about birth preparation and pregnancy yoga.
http://www.wildfeminine.com/ | Tami Lynn Kent is a holistic healthcare visionary whose work is to guide women to activate the energy of their bodies and reclaim the wildness in themselves.
http://mamashanti.com.au/ | Nina Isabella’s site. Great information about birth preparation and pregnancy yoga.
http://www.wildfeminine.com/ | Tami Lynn Kent is a holistic healthcare visionary whose work is to guide women to activate the energy of their bodies and reclaim the wildness in themselves.
Breastfeeding
ttp://www.incultureparent.com/2011/02/breastfeeding-land-genghis-khan/ | “Breastfeeding in Mongolia.” This is our favourite breastfeeding article. If only Australia had the same attitude to breastfeeding as the Mongolians.
Australian Breast Feeding Association (ABA) | Community based self-help group offers information, counselling, and support services, on breastfeeding issues
http://www.biologicalnuturing.com/ | This is way of breastfeeding recognises that there is not one way to breastfeed. Babies often self-attach and getting started with breastfeeding is about using the babies reflexes and mother and baby together finding their own right way.
http://www.breastfeedinginc.ca/content.php?pagename=about | This site was created by Dr Jack Newman, a hero of the breastfeeding community. “At Breastfeeding Inc, we are here to make available all the information that parents – both new and experienced – need to make breastfeeding their baby an easy and wonderful experience.”
Human Milk for Human Babies | Facebook page providing a space where families in need can connect with women who have breast milk to share
Australian Breast Feeding Association (ABA) | Community based self-help group offers information, counselling, and support services, on breastfeeding issues
http://www.biologicalnuturing.com/ | This is way of breastfeeding recognises that there is not one way to breastfeed. Babies often self-attach and getting started with breastfeeding is about using the babies reflexes and mother and baby together finding their own right way.
http://www.breastfeedinginc.ca/content.php?pagename=about | This site was created by Dr Jack Newman, a hero of the breastfeeding community. “At Breastfeeding Inc, we are here to make available all the information that parents – both new and experienced – need to make breastfeeding their baby an easy and wonderful experience.”
Human Milk for Human Babies | Facebook page providing a space where families in need can connect with women who have breast milk to share
Diet
http://fertility.com.au/Docs/Downloads/Diet%20Guidelines%20-%20General%20and%20Reproductive%20Health.pdf
http://birthfaith.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/62703c97e5855ee9e319e5af252d1a1b.jpg | Interesting article giving advice about diet in relation to caring for the perineum.
http://www.drbrewerpregnancydiet.com/
https://www.thewomens.org.au/health-information/pregnancy-and-birth/a-healthy-pregnancy/food-nutrition-in-pregnancy/
http://birthfaith.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/62703c97e5855ee9e319e5af252d1a1b.jpg | Interesting article giving advice about diet in relation to caring for the perineum.
http://www.drbrewerpregnancydiet.com/
https://www.thewomens.org.au/health-information/pregnancy-and-birth/a-healthy-pregnancy/food-nutrition-in-pregnancy/
Early Parenting
Raising Children Australian Parenting website | Raising Children Network is the complete parenting resource for all stages from pregnancy to newborns to teens. We offer research-based content on hundreds of topics for children and grown-ups. On this page, you’ll find links to more information about the website and our team, as well as resources to help you promote the website and stay in touch.
http://cosleeping.nd.edu/ | Professor James J. McKenna’s Mother-Baby Behavioural Sleep Laboratory studies how sleeping environments reflect and respond to family needs—in particular how they affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants’ physiological and psychological well-being and development.
http://www.pinkymckay.com/about-pinky/ | Pinky specialises in gentle parenting styles that honours a mothers natural instincts to respond to their babies and empower a positive response
Dr. Alan Greene | Delayed cord clamping article. You can also view his Tedx Talk.
http://cosleeping.nd.edu/ | Professor James J. McKenna’s Mother-Baby Behavioural Sleep Laboratory studies how sleeping environments reflect and respond to family needs—in particular how they affect mothers, breastfeeding, and infants’ physiological and psychological well-being and development.
http://www.pinkymckay.com/about-pinky/ | Pinky specialises in gentle parenting styles that honours a mothers natural instincts to respond to their babies and empower a positive response
Dr. Alan Greene | Delayed cord clamping article. You can also view his Tedx Talk.
GBS
http://3centres.com.au/guidelines/low-risk-pregnancy/prevention-of-early-onset-group-b-streptococcal-disease-gbs | About half of the babies born to mothers colonised with GBS at the time of delivery will become colonised themselves and, of these, even without preventative antibiotics in labour, only around 1 in 200 will develop GBS disease. Carrying GBS during labour and delivery does not mean necessarily that you or your baby will become ill. (www. http://gbss.org.uk/)
https://www.tenmoons.com.au/?s=GBS
http://www.ranzcog.edu.au/component/docman/doc_view/953-c-obs-19-screening-and-treatment-for-group-b-streptococcus-in-pregnancy.html
https://www.tenmoons.com.au/?s=GBS
http://www.ranzcog.edu.au/component/docman/doc_view/953-c-obs-19-screening-and-treatment-for-group-b-streptococcus-in-pregnancy.html
Gestational Diabetes
http://www.sarawickham.com/quotes-and-shares/quote-of-the-month-for-may-gestational-diabetes/ | Sara Wickham Midwife on Gestational diabetes
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD007222.pub3/abstract | Cochrane Collaboration summaries: Screening for Gestational Diabetes and subsequent management for improving maternal and infant health.
http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2013/august/gestational-diabetes-mellitus/ | Gestational diabetes Mellitus, Negotiating the confusion, Jennifer Conn, Australian Family physician, Aug 2013;
http://www.fullcirclemidwifery.com/2009/02/gestational-diabetes-information/ | Dr. Sarah Wickham on Gestational diabetes
http://www.drbrewerpregnancydiet.com/id33.html | The Brewer Diet Plan and Brewer article on Gestational Diabetes.
http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/gdmodent.html | Michel Odent: Gestational diabetes, A diagnosis looking for a disease.
http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/gdhgoer.html | Henci Goer on Gestational diabetes
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD007222.pub3/abstract | Cochrane Collaboration summaries: Screening for Gestational Diabetes and subsequent management for improving maternal and infant health.
http://www.racgp.org.au/afp/2013/august/gestational-diabetes-mellitus/ | Gestational diabetes Mellitus, Negotiating the confusion, Jennifer Conn, Australian Family physician, Aug 2013;
http://www.fullcirclemidwifery.com/2009/02/gestational-diabetes-information/ | Dr. Sarah Wickham on Gestational diabetes
http://www.drbrewerpregnancydiet.com/id33.html | The Brewer Diet Plan and Brewer article on Gestational Diabetes.
http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/gdmodent.html | Michel Odent: Gestational diabetes, A diagnosis looking for a disease.
http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/gdhgoer.html | Henci Goer on Gestational diabetes
Government Sites
Australian Government Parenting Payments | Providing information regarding income support for parents or guardians to help with the cost of raising children
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/servicesandsupport/pregnancy-and-birth-services
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/healthyliving/healthy-pregnancy
Young Pregnant & Parenting Program | Bendigo Community Health Services offering support to parents 21 years and under. Contact Kristen Lummis: 5430 0500
Pregnancy Advice Helpline | Free 24hr advice and support from qualified counsellors 1800 882 4361800 882 436 FREE
The Royal Women’s Hospital | Offers a range of health information from Australia’s largest public maternity hospital.
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/servicesandsupport/pregnancy-and-birth-services
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/healthyliving/healthy-pregnancy
Young Pregnant & Parenting Program | Bendigo Community Health Services offering support to parents 21 years and under. Contact Kristen Lummis: 5430 0500
Pregnancy Advice Helpline | Free 24hr advice and support from qualified counsellors 1800 882 4361800 882 436 FREE
The Royal Women’s Hospital | Offers a range of health information from Australia’s largest public maternity hospital.
Home Birth
http://homebirthaustralia.org/is-homebirth-safe | HBA is the peak national body for Homebirth in Australia. For over thirty years, HBA has worked to support consumers and midwives who choose homebirth. The organisation is run by volunteers – consumers and midwives.
http://www.homebirth.org.uk/why.htm | Home birth is the recommendation for healthy women in the UK.
https://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/whyhomebirth.asp | Why are women choosing to birth at home?
https://thebumpwa.org.au/research/
http://www.cochrane.org/CD000352/PREG_benefits-and-harms-of-planned-hospital-birth-compared-with-planned-home-birth-for-low-risk-pregnant-women | And it is a safe option.
http://www.homebirth.org.uk/why.htm | Home birth is the recommendation for healthy women in the UK.
https://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/whyhomebirth.asp | Why are women choosing to birth at home?
https://thebumpwa.org.au/research/
http://www.cochrane.org/CD000352/PREG_benefits-and-harms-of-planned-hospital-birth-compared-with-planned-home-birth-for-low-risk-pregnant-women | And it is a safe option.
Placenta Encapsulation
Benefits of Placenta Encapsulation | article from Pregnancy, Birth & Parenting – Belly Belly
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=red%20thread%20placenta%20encapsulation | Our very own Jo Watson offering placenta encapsulation in Central Victoria. Contact 0410205259 or email redthreadmidwifery@gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=red%20thread%20placenta%20encapsulation | Our very own Jo Watson offering placenta encapsulation in Central Victoria. Contact 0410205259 or email redthreadmidwifery@gmail.com
Post Natal Depression
Post and Antenatal Depression Association Inc. | PANDA’s counsellors and trained volunteers are confidential and open to women and men as well as family and friends. PANDA’s helpline is available in Australia from 10am to 5pm (AEST) Monday to Friday. 1300 726 3061300 726 306
How is Dad Going? | PANDA’s new website about dads whose lives have been affected by perinatal depression and anxiety
How is Dad Going? | PANDA’s new website about dads whose lives have been affected by perinatal depression and anxiety
Vitamin K
https://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/health/healthyliving/vitamin-k-and-newborn-babies
http://www.sarawickham.com/original-articles/five-things-parents-should-know-if-they-decide-to-decline-vitamin-k-for-their-baby/
http://www.sarawickham.com/riffing-ranting-and-raving/vitamin-k-a-new-reason-to-worry/
https://www.tenmoons.com.au/2014/03/vitamin-k-decision/
http://www.sarawickham.com/original-articles/five-things-parents-should-know-if-they-decide-to-decline-vitamin-k-for-their-baby/
http://www.sarawickham.com/riffing-ranting-and-raving/vitamin-k-a-new-reason-to-worry/
https://www.tenmoons.com.au/2014/03/vitamin-k-decision/
