Childbirth Resources

How come a homebirth?

• Why a midwife and homebirth? National Association of Certified Professional Midwives
• Scroll down to Homebirth Resources
  

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When Baby Arrives 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 no 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
Lecheria -- Bethany Salguero
Robin DeGemmis
Forrester Lactation 
​Milkin Melanin 
​Oh, Baby! Lactation Care 
With Woman Wellness 

Newborn Hearing Screen

CT EARS is 10 minutes from my office. Schedule baby's appointment to coincide with your 4-6 week postpartum visit.

Your newborn receives the CT Newborn Screens according to your plan. For the hearing screen, I refer to CT EARS, LLC
440 North Main Street,
Suite C
Bristol, CT 06010
860-893-1977
Cost: Insurance accepted; or $45 if not covered by your plan

Herbal products

• Premium Rosa Herbal Juices and Syrups - nettle, red raspberry leaf, dandelion, elderberry, cranberry among others. You can also purchase these locally at Polmart in New Britain, CT
• Lisa's Remedies Herbs and homeopathy for the childbearing year
  
• ​The Golden Salve from Equinox Botanicals, ​for skin abrasions, diaper rash, and cradle cap

• Blue Boy Herbs, MS
• Sunstone Formulas, UT
• Red Moon Herbs Herbs for Pregnancy and Birth Part I & II

Let your midwife know when you plan to or are using any labor prep herbs such as Sunstone's Cervix Softener, Gentle Birth Tincture, or other stimulating herbals.

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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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Setting up the 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 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 Care 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
 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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Substance exposure

• MotherToBaby 
• Infant Risk Center
• LactMed

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HUSKY A Dental Care

Find a Connecticut Dentist who accepts Husky A.

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Global Health Media breastfeeding videos

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Glucose screening and Gestational Diabetes

Screening options include

• ​​The Fresh Test The Fresh Test FAQs for 50 gm screen, 75 or 100 gm diagnostic tests. 
• A glucometer with four x a day fingerstick checks and a diet diary
• Continuous Glucose Monitor - self-pay or prescription for partial coverage
  • ​Free 14-day Trial of >>> FreeStyle Libre <<<< for cash pay or those with private insurance plans (choose which one applies as you sign up). 

Resources​

• Lily Nichols, RDN - author of Real Food for Pregnancy and Real Food for Gestational Diabetes
• Gestational diabetes - Dr. Sara Wickham
• Gestational diabetes: beyond the label - Dr. Rachel Reed

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 its purpose!

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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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