Childbirth Resources

How come a homebirth?

• The Safety of Homebirth  Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
• Position Statement on Homebirth American College of Nurse-Midwives​
• Why a midwife and homebirth? National Association of Certified Professional Midwives
• Scroll to Homebirth Resources

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When Baby Arrrives Before the Midwife

A handout is provided to parents at the 36-week visit. Online resources:

• Emergency Childbirth Mini Guide by Dianne Bjarnson
• Emergency Childbirth: A Manual by Gregory White

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• ​Precious Arrows
• In His Hands

Home birth kit

Please order your Magnolia Midwifery home birth kit by 35 weeks (or sooner when mail delays expected) so it arrives to your Connecticut home by 36 weeks

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Breastfeeding

​​Natural Breastfeeding for an Easier Start 
​This online breastfeeding class created by Dr. Nesbitt, MD & Nancy Mohrbacher, IBCLC, FILCA is available to clients at not extra cost. This is a self-paced, online course with reading, videos, and images. Contact me for the class link.

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Order a Breast Pump Through Your Insurance

• Acelleron
• Edgepark
• ​Aeroflow

Breastfeeding Information

• Global Health Media Video Series
• Breastfeeding.Info -- See 'Problems' for UP TO DATE information on plugged ducts, tongue restrictions, collecting colostrum prenatally, milk oversupply, reflux, etc.
• KellyMom Breastfeeding and Parenting
• American Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine

Local Practitioners
Forrester Lactation - Susan and Lauren
​Milkin Melanin - Dani
​Oh, Baby! Lactation Care - Lori and Bethany
With Woman Wellness - Susan Small

Herbal products

• Blue Boy Herbs, Carriere, MS
• Sunstone Formulas, Pleasant Grove, UT

• Red Moon Herbs Herbs for Pregnancy and Birth Part I & II
• Lisa's Remedies Herbs and homeopathy for the childbearing year
• ​The Golden Salve from Equinox Botanicals, ​for skin abraisions, diaper rash, and cradle cap
• Running Waters Homestead Yellow Dock and Dandelion root tincture 
• Practitioner-grade supplements purchased through the Magnolia Midwifery LLC account with FullScript

Let your midwife know when you plan to or are using any labor prep herbs such as Sunstone's Cervix Softener.

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​Urgent Warning Signs

PDF or webpage
​If you have any of these signs during your pregnancy and postpartum, tell your midwife.
What is Preeclampsia?  Visit the Preeclampsia Foundation

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Birth tub

Magnolia Midwifery offers Birth Pool in a Box Mini and Oasis Oval (not Elite). Branded liners are required for my pools. Setup and filling & deflating and packing of the tub is the families' responsibility. We help empty and clean the tub after homebirth.

• Waterbirth resources
• More Waterbirth resources

Read & watch how to inflate, fill, and pack a tub

• How to set up a birth pool (text)
• How to pack a birth pool (text)
• Waterbirth Solutions on YouTube
• Purchase
  • Precious Arrows
  • Waterbirth Solutions​

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Client Portal

Access your personal chart and send secure emails by logging into your client account.

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Babywearing

​Cloth Diapers and Baby Carriers
 Bean Tree Baby
 New Britain, CT
 Clover sells and consults helping
 you choose and  use baby   carriers and cloth diapering systems. 10% off discount to Magnolia Midwifery LLC clients with a discount card.

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Exposures in pregnancy and lactation

• MotherToBaby 
• Infant Risk Center
• LactMed

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Global Health Media breastfeeding videos

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Glucose screening

• ​​The Fresh Test       The Fresh Test FAQs 

            Available for purchase from Magnolia Midwifery LLC​

• Lily Nichols, RDN - information source
• Glucometer - online or in-store purchase
• Gestational diabetes - Dr. Sara Wickham

To enhance glucose stability with Metabolic Syndrome, ​PCOS, and GDM read the D-Chiro plus Myo-Inositol research review

• Ovasitol
• Vitanica Optinositol purchased at Fullscript

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Lubes for Your Wellness

Choosing a lubricant that matches the body's pH and osmolarity doesn't have to be THAT scientific thanks to those who've already done the research! Smitten Kitten offers this > Shopping Guide to Lube < with colorful charts to make choosing easier. Match your lube to it's purpose! WE DO!

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Prenatal Genetic Testing

View the entire
​Washington State Dept. of Health
Genetic Testing Video Series
available in English and Spanish

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Please Note:

• Genetic tests are not available for all genetic variations
• Genetic tests cannot predict clinical outcome

A few guiding thoughts and questions:

How will this information help or hinder me?

• Do I want to know that my baby is affected before the baby is born?
• Would testing simply make me more anxious, rather than less anxious?
• Am I willing to accept the increased risk of miscarriage associated with a diagnostic test such as chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis?
• Will this information help me choose a birth site? Become educated? Find support groups?
• Am I strongly opposed to pregnancy termination even if I have a baby affected with (fill in the blank)?
• Would I terminate this pregnancy if I know my baby is affected with (fill in the blank)?
• Why should I have screening or diagnostic tests if I am fine with any outcome the baby might have?
• If there is no treatment or therapy for the condition tested are the findings helpful to me/us or not?

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Parenting​

Becoming a parent for the first time, or the parent of an expanding family, offers opportunities for growth. You will likely meet sides of yourself you hadn't known before! Boundaries are challenged. New perspectives discovered. Old wounds open.

​My commitment as a community midwife to protecting a non-violent space for birth is rooted in my commitment to non-violent parenting responsive to the holistic development of the child and to continuous growth and learning.

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