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• - Promotes informed and empowered birthing. Includes information on choosing a birth attendant and birthing place, creating an effective birth plan, the importance of labor support and the basics of breastfeeding.
  
• - Get the information you need to make informed choices; avoid unnecessary procedures, drugs, and restrictions; and determine whether you are receiving quality care.
  
• - Information regarding side effects and complications. Site includes personal stories.
  
• - Guide to pregnancy, childbirth and raising children in this area.
  
• - Information regarding pregnancy and feeding baby, as well as charting tools.
  
• - A tutorial which answers many questions involving water birth. Includes a Water Birth Photo gallery.
  
• - Information about fitness after delivery, breastfeeding, infant care, and other postpartum topics.
  
• - Find out how to prepare for childbirth, what your birthing options are and complications that may arise. Plus, make your own birth plan for a smooth delivery.
  
• - This site provides information about the benefits and side effects of epidurals and regional anesthesia.
  
• - Pregnancy resources from the first online parenting website.
  
• - Dad's side of birth and the early days, from the FatherWork site.
  
• - Information and related links regarding the use of a midwife, home or water birth, VBAC and health department regulations.
  
• - Organization dedicated to providing natural childbirth education, midwifery, and pregnancy resources.
  
• - Information on natural childbirth, training courses, and relaxation techniques.
  
• - Pregnancy articles, message boards, birth stories, and childbirth search engine.
  
• - Information about water birth and the benefits it can provide.
  
• - Various articles about pregnancy and childbirth preparation.
  
• - Offering information regarding pregnancy, labor and childbirth, and other relevant topics. Information is provided by the Maternity Center Association (MCA).
  
• - How the Alexander Technique can help natural birthing.
  
• - Organization dedicated to research and education regarding preterm problems and delivery.
  
• - Offering information providing a general review of pregnancy, labor, birth, and the postpartum period. Sources are listed at the end of each article to enable further research.
  
• - Childbirth information plus month-by-month pregnancy guide, tests during pregnancy and many links.
  
• - A virtual pregnancy and childbirth education center.
  
• - List of resources for pregnancy and childbirth.
  
• - Information about one woman's experience with a late onset of an epidural complication.
  
• - Large selection of pregnancy resources.
  
• - Home of the Worldwide Fund for Mothers Injured in Childbirth.
  
• - Information on having a water birth. Personal story and links to other resources.
  
• - An article discussing eating and nourishment before and during the early parts of labor.
  
• - Learn about birth plans and save a birth plan online.
  
• - A community for expectant parents, offering many unique features to guide you through pregnancy.
  
• - A tutorial about fetal monitoring during labour including example CTG's and test MCQ's.
  
• - Things to consider when preparing a birth plan.
  
• - Offers animated pictures explaining pain free birth options, including childbirth plans and anesthesia.
  
• - Organization focused on natural birthing and midwifery. Also offers a nice weekly newsletter.
  
• - Article explaining use of enemas to speed labor, provide hydration, and stimulate contractions.
  
• - In-depth information on the newest innovation in safe, gentle, joyous, empowering childbirth. Includes a tutorial, photo gallery, dozens of firsthand stories, details on the preparations for and benefits of.
  
• - Comprehensive information about labor monitoring and fetal monitoring showing graphs, nomograms and partograms.
  
• - Informative articles about the advantages of birthing in water.
  
  

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