Childbirth Resources

How come a homebirth?

photo credit: Kelly Myers

• 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

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Catching Babies

​Emergency childbirth mini guide by Dianne Bjarnson
Emergency childbirth: A manual by Gregory White

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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

• Malawi's House 
• Precious Arrows
• In His Hands

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Breastfeeding

Breast pumps, Acelleron, ​(860) 896-5804
​(BP cuffs and compression socks also available)

LLL of CT group
​CT BF USA

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Exposures in pregnancy and lactation

• MotherToBaby 
• Infant Risk Center
• LactMed

Herbal products

Blue Boy Herbs, Carriere, MS
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Sunstone Formulas, Pleasant Grove, UT
[please notify your midwife if you plan to or are using any labor prep herbs such as cervix softener (TM)]

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

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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.

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Birth tub

Purchase or Rental

• Southeast CT, Sea to Shore Birth - Vanessa
• Passages Midwifery Pools
• Footprints Doula Services

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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

Spinning Babies

 Beany Tree Baby
​ New Britain, CT
 Offers consults to  help you choose and  use baby carriers

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A Spinning Babies class for parents. Join certified Spinning Babies Parent Educators to learn more about the importance of body work and balance during pregnancy and birth.

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Global Health Media breastfeeding videos

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Covid-19

• CDC ​ Pregnancy, Breastfeeding and ​Caring ​for your Newborn
• Mother to Baby COVID-19 in pregnancy and breastfeeding

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Healing Histories Project
COVID19 Timeline

"In particular, this timeline tracks the way that histories of white supremacy, racism & xenophobia, misogyny, ableism, economic injustice and conditional access to care shapes the US response to COVID-19."

--Anjali Taneja, Cara Page, and Susan Raffo in NYC

Glucose screening

• ​D​The Fresh Test       The Fresh Test FAQs 

            Available for purchase from Magnolia Midwifery LLC

• EasydeX BVO free, dye free

             Available free from Magnolia Midwifery LLC
             Ingredients: water, dextrose from corn, citric acid,
              natural flavor, sodium hexametaphosphate, .10%
              sodium benzoate

• Simply Pure - online purchase
• 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
Myo-Inositol research review

• Ovasitol
• Sensitol 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 Series

Spanish

English

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?

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

Prental Genetic Testing Screening and Diagnostic Options: ACOG Charts and explanation

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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 belief in non-violent parenting and self-forgiveness as adults on a journey.

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