www.mothersnaturally.org (wonderful website with lots of good information about natural childbirth)
www.mana.org (Midwives Alliance of North America)
www.cfmidwifery.org (Citizens for Midwifery is dedicated to seeing that the Midwives Model of Care is available to all childbearing women and universally recognized as the best kind of care for pregnancy and birth)
www.californiamidwives.org (California Association of Midwives)
www.midwivesmodelofcare.org (to read or download the pamphlet by Citizens for Midwifery)
www.waterbirthinternational.org (Barbara Harper’s site features birthing in water, tub rentals/purchases…..)
www.gentlebirth.org (Ronnie Falcao’s informative site)

www.yogastudioganesha.com (Devorah Blum’s yoga studio offering a wide variety of classes and teachers)
www.easternholisticcenter.com (Stephanie Halderman’s holistic center offering private sessions, classes and professional training in acupressure & Eastern Therapies)
www.dhyanacenter.com (DeAnna Batdorff’s center of Health Sciences - treatments and classes in Ayurved offered)
www.healyourearlyimprints.com (Karen Melton studied with Ray Castellino in Santa Barbara – offers workshops and private sessions)
www.finalpassages.org (Jerrigrace Lyons’ natural death-care education, end-of-life planning, advocacy and assistance with home funerals- 3 levels of training in death midwifery)

www.wisewomanchildbirth.com (Maria Iorillo’s San Francisco based midwifery services)

www.pregnantearth.com (Art gifts that honor the Mother, including Barbara Getrost’s lovely limited edition fine art prints, posters, greeting cards, soaps, nesting dolls, jewelery, figurines, pottery, music, books)
www.primabella.com/experience_studio.html (Francine Krause’s exquisite bellymask sculptures)

www.whatbabieswant.com (movie directed by Debbie Takakawa with pre/perinatal perspective)
www.birthasweknowit.com (includes footage of women birthing in the Black Sea in Russia, cesarean, circumcision – powerful film)
www.borninwater.com (Jennifer Gallardo’s birth center featuring 5 couples having waterbirths)
www.birthday.com (Naoli Veniver, midwife, laboring at home with family present)
www.birthinthesquattingposition.com (depicts women in a Brazilian birth center and conveys well the normalcy of birth)
www.deliveryself-attachment.com (depicts naturally born newborn placed on mama’s belly scootching up to the breast and latching within 50 min of delivery. This is contrasted with a baby born by a medicated delivery, unable to find his way there. Strong visual statement.)
www.ItsMyBodyMyBabyMyBirth.com (“tells the story of seven mothers and their emotional journeys to natural childbirth”)
www.portaldemama.com ("Comfort Measures For Childbirth – the Rebozo Way" – use of a traditional rebozo to help relax women in labor.
www.heywhataboutme? (video guide for siblings of new babies, presented from the perspective of the older brother)

http://www.midwiferytoday.com/articles/ultrasoundrodgers.asp (Questions about Prenatal Ultrasound and the Alarming Increase in Autism: By Caroline Rodgers)
http://gentlebirth.org/archives/screen.html (Ultrasound and Fury: One Mother's Ordeal By Natalie Angier)
http://www.mothering.com/articles/pregnancy_birth/birth_preparation/ultrasound-risks.html (Weighing the Risks: What You Should Know about Ultrasound: By Sarah Buckley)
http://www.intelihealth.com/IH/ihtIH/EMIHC267/333/21345/490828.html?d=dmtICNNews (Ultrasound can Affect Brain Development)
http://asa.aip.org/web2/asa/abstracts/search.oct01/asa44.html (Spectral characteristics of the sound generated by ultrasound imaging systems in the human body)
http://www.compleatmother.com/ultrasound_danger.htm (Ultrasound Scans May Harm Unborn Babies By Robert Uhlig, Technology Correspondent)
http://www.aimsusa.org/ultrasnd.htm (Ultrasound in Obstetrics: A Question of Safety)