Resources
Midwives of the Gorge
Highland Midwife Birth Services
Local Perinatal Pros
Feed Them Well - Postpartum healing, nutrition and wellness with Jerica Beckman
Healing Pathway - Holistic physical therapy and massage with Holly Hamilton, DPT LMT
Dr. Michelle Gerbi, DC IBCLC - Mother-infant chiropractor; IBCLC lactation consultant; cert. prenatal & postpartum health coach
Confluence Wellness - Preconception, fertility, pregnancy and postpartum support through personalized Functional Medicine programs with Amber Valenti Armstrong, PA-C
Shelly Peterson Photography - Maternity, family and newborn photography
Pelvic Floor therapists - Please contact us for personalized recommendations
The Intentional Birth Course
The quality of your childbirth education matters. The Intentional Birth Parent Course is our highest regarded pregnancy, birth and postpartum preparation course out there. Complements our birth doula support and our one-on-one preparation work greatly. Our clients receive a generous discount for 9 month course access.
Be Body Ready for Pregnancy and Birth
The Body Ready Method is an excellent, self-guided program to support your body & mind in pregnancy, week by week, and to prepare for birth. Camille is a certified Body Ready Method practitioner, and she offers a complementary physiology session to all birthing clients, and a generous discount on the course.
Be Informed
The Birthful Podcast - Interviews with birth professionals on all topics pregnancy and birth, as well as birth stories, with Doula Adriana Lozada.
Evidence Based Birth - Unbiased, accessible, evidence-based information on subjects related to decision-making for pregnancy, birth and postpartum.
Support Your Relationships
Six Rivers Dispute Resolution Center - Mediation and Parenting Planning in Hood River, OR.
Rose City Nonviolent Communication - Individual, partnered, and family coaching, mediation and courses in effective communication - in service of calm, peace and joy in your relationships.
Baby Blues
Ups and downs are normal, but if you or your partner feel something isn’t right - during pregnancy or after - reach out for help. We can recommend mental wellness therapists, as well.
dancyperinatal - online groups, birth trauma resources, and therapist directories
postpartumdepression - PPD resources
postpartum - 24-hr hotline, provider directories
pattch - birth trauma resources
On Pregnancy Loss
Samantha Zipporah’s digital hearth: Books, courses and community on fertility, contraception, reproductive herbalism, and holistic healing after miscarriage & abortion
Resources on every type of pregnancy loss, from midwife, advocate and educator Molly Dutton-Kenny
Miscarriage at home: general considerations of physiological miscarriage at home
On miscarriage: an informative, 5-part series on miscarriage
Workbooks on pregnancy options and abortion resolution (these are cool, and free)
Recommended Reading
Childbirth preparation
Baby Catcher by Peggy Vincent, MW
Peggy tells powerful tales from her years as a labor and delivery nurse, home birth midwife and eventually, hospital based midwife. This book changes people.
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin, MW
Birth stories, education and real talk by the revolutionary midwife.
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering, A doctor’s guide to natural childbirth and gentle early parenting choices, by Dr. Sarah Buckley, PhD, MD
An accessible guide toward making evidence based, informed decisions throughout pregnancy and parenting. Understand and trust the natural process of birth and bonding. Reflects that women are the experts of their bodies and babies.
Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage, Weaving ancient wisdom with modern knowledge, by Dr. Rachel Reed, MW
An immensely important look into physiologic birth, birth history, and modern birth culture, and a re-framing (or reclaiming) of birth as an important spiritual+social process, and not simply a mechanical one.
Give Birth like a Feminist, Your body, your baby, your choices, by Milli Hill
A well-researched piece of opinion journalism that considers why modern women are still so dis-empowered in the birth room, and offers both global and individual solutions.
Birth Reborn by Michel Odent, MD
Birth Reborn takes the reader through Michel’s journey from surgeon to OB-midwife, and tells how he transformed his hospital into a birth haven.
Real Food For Pregnancy by Lily Nichols, CD
The definitive guide to perinatal nutrition. Packed with research citations, yet very readable. Lily busts a lot of myths surrounding the “dos and don’ts” of pregnancy nutrition, while explaining clearly why each nutrient is beneficial, and which foods provide it. Many wonderful recipes included.
Postpartum empowerment
Dr. Jack Newman’s Guide to Breastfeeding by Dr. Jack Newman and Teresa Pitman
Definitive, practical guidance and information on resolving breastfeeding challenges. Recommended for both mothers AND lactation professionals. Update and Up-level your breastfeeding expertise. On breastfeeding, a discussion with Dr. Newman, on the Birthful podcast.
The First Forty Days by Heng Ou
On the art of nourishing the new mother. Filled with essential advice and recipes for the early postpartum weeks.
The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson
A postpartum preparation guide to healing the postpartum body, balancing emotions and restoring vitality.
Go Diaper Free by Andrea Olsen
Have you ever wondered what the story is BEHIND diapers, what the story was BEFORE diapers, and what the alternative could be?
Film
Resources for Obstetricians, Nurses, and hospital policy makers
Dancy Perinatal - A professional support service exclusively offered for birth and medical professionals. This structured one-on-one support program is meant to address the symptoms of acute work-related stress quickly and effectively so that care providers can get back to doing what they love - and feeling well while they do it.
For L&D Nurses: Shift the standard of care from system-centered to patient-centered. Become the patient advocate you went into healthcare to be, and the self advocate that has you love nursing again!
For Hospital Partners: Drop cesarean rates, improve quality of care, and reduce turnover by offering nurses a supportive and safe work culture. Give your nurses the tools to avoid vicarious trauma and to improve birth outcomes.
Evidence Based Birth - Compare your policy & practice with the current evidence
Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews - Facilitate evidence-based choices and policy concerning health interventions
Entering The World, by Michel Odent, MD - In this book, Michel Odent, a leading figure in the natural childbirth movement, explains the techniques used at his Pithiviers hospital, and the philosophy behind his remarkable achievement: a gentle, intimate trauma-free birth method. Odent’s 21st-century books - The Scientification of Love, The Farmer and the Obstetrician and The Caesarean - may be regarded as a trilogy.