Currents
Birth currents contains articles pertaining to women’s health, midwifery, breastfeeding
and a calendar of local events, classes, trainings, lectures, film screenings and volunteer opportunities in the Southern
California region. Currents.html
Stories of amazing births by mothers, midwives, apprentices and Doulas Birthtales.html
More Birth Stories (contribute yours!) Birthtales2.html
Articles on midwifery, childbirth, pregnancy and women and infants health from peer reviewed
journals and popular media. Currents.html
Childbirth, breastfeeding
and infant care- related classes, workshops, trainings, events, lectures and volunteer opportunities Midwifery_events.html
Pathways
If you are an aspiring midwife and want to learn about schools, training programs, certification, licensure,
midwifery laws, and other resources of interest to the midwifery student.
Pathways (Pathways into Midwifery)
How to become a midwife becoming.html
A featured Nurse-Midwife cnmspotlight.html
Tips for how the aspiring midwife can get started on her journey getstarted.html
Take this quiz to find out if you are a midwife howtoknow.html
Go here to find midwifery and childbirth related organizations and websites. links.html
The California laws for nurse and licensed midwifery midwiferylaw.html
Confused about how to become a midwife? This page will let you know the routes into the profession
and how to get there. pathways.html
Go here to find a midwifery organization outside California, in order to find a homebirth midwife, resources.html
A featured Licensed direct –entry midwife, Shelly Girard, shelly.html
Go here to find a midwifery training program both for nurse and direct-entry midwifery, study.html
A brief history of midwifery in the U.S. tworoads.html
PDFs
Would you like to
become a breastfeeding peer counselor? Take this training bfpc_training.pdf
More about the breastfeeding peer counselor training letter_bfpc.pdf
Are you a new Doula looking for births? Volunteer with this organization and help disadvantaged women
get labor support volunteer.pdf
Providers
If you’re
seeking a birth attendant (midwife, doctor) or birth center, and or you are looking for a childbirth preparation class or
Doula, or want a hypnobirthing class, a pregnancy massage, a chiropractor specializing in pregnancy or a birth photographer
in Southern California.
Nurse-Midwives in the hospital cnmhosp.html
Licensed midwives offering homebirth homebirth-midwives.html
Childbirth education classes childbirth-education.html
Birthing Centers centers.html
Nurse-Midwives offering hospital birth cnmhosp.html
Well woman gynecology services gyno.html
Acupuncturists, chiropractors, massage therapists, hypnobirthing instructors, birth photographers, acupuncturists,
and more…complimentary-birth-services.html
Parenting education and support parenting.html
Breastfeeding support and postpartum care providers postpartum.html
Labor assistants and Doulas doula-support.html
Resources
This
section is full of important information for expectant parents such as choosing the place of birth, interviewing a birth attendant,
writing a birth plan, and childbirth related organizations for support
Books and videos
of interest and where to buy them Books.html
If you’ re seeking a midwife outside of California, go here to find midwifery orgamnizations
in each state contacts.html
Understanding your options for care providers, place of birth, types of childbirth education
available and more options.html
Questions to ask when inyterviewing a potential doctor or midwife or to take on your hospital
tour questions.html
Find childbirth education and Doula organizations here and more resource.html
All about the support available to you: midwives, Doulas, postpartum Doulas, childbirth education
and more support.html
Meet Midwife Shelly Girard
Go here if you are wanting to learn more about Childbirth at Home a Labor of Love and Shelly
Girard and Seannie Gibson’s homebirth midwifery practice in Los Angeles, as well as how alternative therapy can help
you during pregnancy and childbirth.
Acupuncture acu.html
Chiropractic chiro.html
Exercise During Pregnancy exercise.html
Homepathy homeopathy.html
Childbirth Hypnosis hypnosis.html
Pregnancy Massage massage.html
About Seannie Gibson LM, CPM, LLC SeanieGibson.html
Serivices offered by Shelly and Seannie services.html
About Shelly Girard, LM, CPM, MPH
About the apprentices Shelly Girard and Seannie Gibson studentmidwives.html
Why choose midwifery? whymidw.html
Why have natural childbirth? whynat.html
Yoga for pregnancy- you can do at home yoga.html
more yoga exercises yoga2.html
For
answers to your childbirth related questions, email us at: support@socalbirth.com
Or, call 626-388-2191 Or, join our moderated discussion
group: pregnant with questions
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