Videos, Articles, and Studies

Videos:

How to Choose Where to Give Birth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2UZzJgrRqc&feature=youtu.be

How to Turn a Breech Baby: https://youtu.be/CqxdV0mRq0s

How to Nurse in a Ring Sling (Maya Wrap — six month old): https://youtu.be/r8adq371gzA

How to Nurse a newborn in a Ring Sling: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMeVPlU2Spk&t=17s

How to Night Wean Your Toddler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUvl604oRfo&feature=youtu.be

Ina May Gaskin (widely regarded as the mother of the modern day midwifery movement) did a TED talk in Sacramento in 2013 entitled “Reducing Fear of Birth in U.S. Culture”, you can watch it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LO1Vb54yk

Articles/Studies:

Study finds that among low-risk women, planned home births result in low rates of interventions without an increase in adverse outcomes for mothers and babies (2014): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jmwh.12172/abstract  

Ina May Gaskin (widely regarded as the mother of the modern day midwifery movement) did a TED talk in Sacramento in 2013 entitled “Reducing Fear of Birth in U.S. Culture”, you can watch it here:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9LO1Vb54yk

Study Links Consumption of Date Fruit with Easier Labor and Delivery Outcomes Among Pregnant Women (08/29/2011):  http://www.marketwatch.com/story/study-links-consumption-of-date-fruit-with-easier-labor-and-delivery-outcomes-among-pregnant-women-2011-08-29

See Cesarean Section rates for every hospital in California (06/06/2011): http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/06/3680706/see-c-section-rates-for-every.html

Ecstatic Birth: Nature’s Hormonal Blueprint for Labor (Dr. Sarah Buckley, 2010): www.sarahbuckley.com/downloads/Ecstatic-Birth.pdf