Pregnancy, birth and beyond

 

​Australian Breastfeeding Association

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Pregnancy, Birth and Beyond website is an up to date and extensive source of information on pregnancy, birth and parenting.

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Spinning Babies provides tips and information to get your baby into the best position to give birth.

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Optimal Fetal Positioning was a term coined by Jean Sutton and Pauline Scott to describe how to encourage the unborn baby to settle into the most effective position for labour and birth.

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Debra Betts is an internationally renowned acupuncturist. She has generously provided a free downloadable booklet (PDF) demonstrating how to locate acupressure points and when to use them for before and during labour.

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Pinky McKay is the best-selling author of Sleeping like a Baby, 100 Ways to Calm the Crying, Parenting by Heart, and provides excellent, practical advice on parenting.

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Dr Sarah Buckley is a medical doctor and author of Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering – Dr Sarah Buckley

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Janet Balaskas, the founder of Active Birth, has been training birth professionals for more than 3 decades, influencing birth education and midwifery practice throughout the UK and internationally. Her book

The New Active Birth is a must read if you want an active birth.

 

Sheila Kitzinger was an authority on natural childbirth and author on Childbirth and Pregnancy. I highly recommend her book The New Pregnancy and Childbirth.

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