Resources

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

Birthing Resources:

  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

Positive Birth Stories:

  1. https://www.positivebirthmovement.org/category/birth-stories/
  2. http://www.tellmeagoodbirthstory.com/birth-stories

Books I Think Are Great:

– 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)

Books For Men:

•Men, Love & Birth- Mark Harris

•Fatherhood: The Truth – Marcus Berkmann

Other Useful Links:

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

Useful Videos:

  1. How to do perineal massage

  2. Birth centre birth (not in water)

  3. Mother assisted abdominal birth

  4. Daisy’s home birth