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Before You Are Pregnant...

Midwifery Led Care and Natural Childbirth Links

Midwife Led versus Other Models of Care for Childbearing Women, Cochrane Data Base, 2008. Conclusion: All women should be offered midwife-led models of care and women should be encouraged to ask for this option.
http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/cochrane/

Reclaiming Midwifery Care as a Foundation for Promoting "Normal" Birth
http://www.birthinternational.com/articles/maggie01.html

Why Natural Childbirth?
http://www.homebirthsa.org.au/PDF%20Files/WhyNatBirth.pdf

Benefits of Homebirth
http://www.gentlebirth.org/ronnie/homebirthBenefits.html

Homebirth FAQs
http://www.homebirthsa.org.au/HBN-FAQs.htm

Homebirth Safety
http://www.gentlebirth.org/archives/homsafty.html

Homebirth Support Groups
http://www.homebirth.org.au/supportgroup.htm

Transfers in Planned Homebirths Related to Midwife Availability and Continuity: A Nationwide Population Based Study
Conclusions:The most common reasons for transfer to hospital during or shortly after delivery were failure toprogress followed by the midwife's unavailability at the onset of labor. Primiparas whose midwife forcheckups during pregnancy was different from the one who assisted at the home birth were at increased risk of being transferred. (BIRTH 35:1 March 2008)
http://www.homebirthsa.org.au/PDF%20Files/PlannedHB_Transfers.pdf

SA Patient Information Brochure for Planned Birth At Home
http://www.health.sa.gov.au/

Pregnancy and Birth
http://www.bellybelly.com.au/articles/birth/

Sarah Buckley
www.sarahjbuckley.com

The Pink Kit
www.thepinkkit.com

Pregnancy and Baby yoga
www.yogababy.com.au

The Plus-Size Pregnancy Website
http://www.plus-size-pregnancy.org/firstindex.html

Gentle birth information
http://www.lamaze.com/

Care in Normal Birth - World Health Organisation Report
http://www.aimsusa.org/CareInNormalBirth.htm

VBAC or Repeat C/Section

http://www.childbirthconnection.com/article.asp?ClickedLink=293&ck=10212&area=27

VBAC in Out of Hospital Settings
http://www.homebirthsa.org.au/PDF%20Files/VBAC_BJMid.pdf

Vaginal Birth Vs Caesarean Birth for Non Medical Reasons
Conclusion: The finding that cesarean deliveries with no labor complications or procedures remained at a 69 percent higher risk of neonatal mortality than planned vaginal deliveries is important, given the rapid increase in the number of primary cesarean deliveries without a reported medical indication. (BIRTH 35:1 March 2008)
http://www.homebirthsa.org.au/PDF%20Files/NeonatMort_PrimCaes.pdf

Planning a Pregnancy

http://www.childbirthconnection.com/article.asp?ck=10293

http://www.natural-birth.com.au/flex/articles/411/fertility.cfm

Preconception Information
http://www.birth.com.au/Planning-for-pregnancy.aspx

http://www.bellybelly.com.au/articles/conception/

Preconception Health Check & Testing
http://www.birth.com.au/Nutrition-health-weight/Pre-conceptual-health-check.aspx

Timing of Sex for Conception
http://www.birth.com.au/How-conception-works/Timing-of-sex-for-conception.aspx

Moving On After A Challenging Birth / Birth Trauma & Support
www.birthtalk.org

www.tabs.org.nz

Caesarean Awareness Network Australia
www.canaustralia.net

Family Planning

Billings Method
www.woomb.org