Resources

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Pregnancy & Childbirth

• Childbirth Connection
• Improving Birth.org
• International Cesarean Awareness Network
• Water Birth.org
• Cochrane Collaboration
• Gloria Lemay
• The Influence of Ultrasounds
• Midwifery Today Magazine
• Squat Birth Journal
• Home or Hospital? Holding the Space for Human Birth – TEDx talk by Saraswathi Vedam
• Womb Ecology by Michel Odent

Breech Birth

• Spinning Babies: Easier Childbirth with Fetal Positioning
  
• BC Breech baby options – BC Women’s Best Birth Clinic
• Breech position, external cephalic version – healthlink BC

Vaginal Birth After a Cesarean

• VBAC.com
• Power to Push Campaign
• VBAC – BC Women’s Best Birth Clinic
• VBAC Patient Info Booklet – PDF from BC Women’s Best Birth Clinic
• VBAC – healthlink BC
• Thinking about VBAC – Deciding What’s Right For Me – PDF

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Breastfeeding

• Breastfeeding.com
• Biological Nurturing (Laid Back Breastfeeding)
• Normalfed.com
• The Natural Child Project

• Dr. Jack Newman
• Kelly Mom
• La Leche League International
• BC Women's Hospital ~ Including milk bank information
• BC Women's Milk Bank

Comox Valley La Leche League Meet-Ups:

First Monday of the month 10:30am – 12:00pm
Leader: Gillian Ingrey
Phone for more details:
250-941-6450

Breastfeeding Drop-in
Thursdays 10:00am – 12:00pm
Location: Vancouver Island Regional Library – Courtenay location



Postpartum

• National Organization of Circumcision Information Resource Centers
• Lotus Birth and Umbilical Cord Health
• Solace For Mothers Healing After Traumatic Birth
• Perinatal Anxiety BC
• Comox Valley Children’s Playgroups and Programs (Birth - 6 Years)
• Vancouver Birth Trauma-Support for Women

Comox Valley Contacts:

• Postpartum Wellness Support Group: 250-338-1711
• Mom and Baby Yoga – Lewis Centre: 250-338-5371
• Mom and Baby Yoga – Filberg Centre: 250-338-1000
• Prenatal, Postnatal, Mom & Baby Yoga – Comox Recreation Centre:  250-339-2255​

Baby Wearing Links

• The Baby Wearer: instructions, reviews & product comparison
• Baby Wearing International
• Strollers, Baby Carriers & Infant Stress
• Safety & Correct Positioning of Newborns

Parenting

• Ask Dr. Sears
• LGTBQ Parenting
• The Shape of a Mother
• Mothering.com
• Mothers Acting Up
• Diaper Swappers
• Holistic Moms

Counseling

• Backline offers non-denominational pregnancy options counseling
• Pacific Postpartum Support Society
• For anyone struggling with pregnancy, birth, or postpartum related anxiety or depression: you are not alone!  Call  Baby Blues Connection to get both a sympathetic ear & a find a group near you.
• www.holisticpeercounseling.com "In HPC for BIRTH and Parenting we integrate peer counseling skills and embodiment practices and focus them on topics related to the perinatal period of life and parenting.  Learn a new way of being that allows you to identify your distress patterns and ways to mature past them.  Become part of a growing community of peer counselors who can be available to you when your distress patterns start to take over your life.  This class changes people’s lives.  Try it out and see for yourself! "
• Preparing for Birth: Emotional and Sexual Healing

Sexual & Reproductive Health

• Circumcision Information
• Fertility Awareness Center

• Sister Zeus: Living with our Fertility
• Native Youth Sexual Health Network
• Women's Health in Women's Hands
• Beautiful Cervix Project
• Association of Sexological Bodyworkers

• The Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality
• Island Sexual Health

Abortion

• The Abortion Diary
• Pregnancy Options Workbook
• Options for Sexual Health
• Abortion Care Network