Birth Plan, Newborn
Caitlin Maudlin
Evidence on Vitamin K
Evidence on Vitamin K
Caitlin Maudlin
2021 Bill for Equitable Access to Birth Options ...
2021 Bill for Equitable Access to Birth Options & Midwifery Care
Pregnancy, Birth Plan
Caitlin Maudlin
Where's My Midwife?

“The Big Push for Midwives Campaign today announced it has launched the new Where's My Midwife? community mapping tool (https://wheresmymidwife.ushahidi.io) to help connect midwives trained in out-of-hospital birth with people whose babies may need to be born in out-of-hospital settings during the COVID-19 pandemic. In recent weeks, reports show the demand for home birth has increased dramatically. While a complete formal contact directory of midwives in the U.S. does not exist, the Big Push has activated its PushState network of midwives to help families, including those who planned a hospital birth, but who do not want to go to an overwhelmed hospital crowded with COVID-19 patients or be forced to give birth alone.”

Where's My Midwife?
Birth Plan, Labor Support, Lactation Support
Caitlin Maudlin
What Is a Doula?
What Is a Doula?
Labor Support
Caitlin Maudlin
Pain Relief in Labor

How to Read Your Cervix

How to Read Your Cervix

I'm always wishing I could tell the future, when it might rain, when I'll run out of clean laundry, or when a client will go into labor. Thankfully, when it comes to my cycle I almost can! Some people read cards, but I learned to read my cervix using the S.H.O.W. method. If my cervix is soft, high, open, and wet I know ovulation is just around the corner. 

Recommended Reading

This is an ever-growing list of books that I found to be helpful. To access these books for free; check your local public library, this free online library, or if bolded reach out to me and I can lend you my copy!

Fertility and Conception

  • Making Babies- Sami S. David, Jill Blakeway

  • The Infertility Cure- Randine Lewis, Ph.D.

  • Taking Charge of Your Fertility- Toni Weschler, MPH

  • What to Expect Before You’re Expecting- Heidi Murkoff

  • Enhancing Fertility Naturally- Nicky Wesson

  • Beyond the Pill- Jolene Brighten

  • How to Choose the Sex of Your Baby- Landrum B Shettles and David M Rorvik

Pregnancy Health

  • Your Pregnancy and Childbirth Month to Month- ACOG

  • What to Expect When You’re Expecting- Heidi Murkoff

Childbirth/ Doula

  • The Birth Partner- Penny Simpkin

  • The Doula Book- Marshall H. Klaus,  John H. Kennell, Phyllis H. Klaus

  • Natural Hospital Birth- Cynthia Gabriel

  • Pushed: The Painful Truth and About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care- Jennifer Block

Breastfeeding/chestfeeding

  • Ina May’s Guide to Breastfeeding- Ina May Gaskin

  • Mother Food- Hilary Jacobson

  • New Mother’s Guide to Breastfeeding- American Academy of Pediatrics

  • Nursing Mother’s Companion- Kathleen Huggins R.N. M.S.

  • The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding- La Leche League

Parenting

  • Organic Baby: Simple Steps for Healthy Living - Kimberly Rider

  • Amazing Baby- Desmond Morris

Midwifery Care

  • Baby Catcher- Peggy Vincent

  • Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First- Marsden Wagner, M.D, M.S.

  • New Choices in Natural Healing- Bill Gotlieb

Postpartum Mood Disorders

  • This Isn’t What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression- Karen R. Kleiman, Valerie Davis Raskin MD 

  • The Postnatal Depletion Cure- Dr. Oscar Serrallach

Sexual Health

  • Divine Sex- Caroline Aldred

  • Karma Sutra

  • The Sacred Marriage- Lira Silbury

Self-Help

  • 12 Rules for Life- Jordan Peterson

  • The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck- Mark Manson

  • Lean In- Sheryl Sandburg

  • The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation- Marion Woodman

  • The Birth Order Book- Kevin Leman

Fiction

  • Handmaid’s Tale- Margot Atlas

  • The Secrets of Midwives- Sally Hepworth

Podcasts

Documentaries