Resources

Find a great collection of helpful and insightful resources below. Click the menus to expand.

  1. Using your birth ball

  2. Visual for using your birth ball

  3. Spinning babies
    Wonderful for optimal fetal positioning. It’s also a great resource for any muscular or ligament pain, and has some great tips for using your birth ball.

  4. Birthing Pool

  5. Massage for Birth – video
  1. https://www.positivebirthmovement.org/category/birth-stories/
  2. http://www.tellmeagoodbirthstory.com/birth-stories

– How to Have a Baby- Natalie Meddings

– The Positive Birth Book – Milli Hill

– The Little Book of Self-care for New Mums – Beccy Hands and Alexis Stickland

– The Wonder Weeks – by Frans Plooij, Hetty van de Rijt, Xaviera Plas

– Secrets Of The Baby Whisperer: How to Calm, Connect and Communicate with your Baby – Tracey Hogg

– The Gentle Sleep Book- Sarah Ockwell Smith (this is great for both parents to understand normal infant sleep)

•Men, Love & Birth- Mark Harris

•Fatherhood: The Truth – Marcus Berkmann

• AIMs (Association of Improvements in Maternity Services)
• Positive Birth Movement, positive birth resources
• Tommy’s (pregnancy and birth charity)
• NCT: A Guide to Labour
• Birth Bag (a guide of what to pack)
• Doula UK offers Birth and Postnatal Doula support services for up to the first year

  1. How to do perineal massage

  2. Birth centre birth (not in water)

  3. Mother assisted abdominal birth

  4. Daisy’s home birth