Freebies + Online Resources
Here you’ll find a mix of resources, some are specifically for parents, some for professionals, and some both.
Video Downloads
This is a free class for birth professionals, offering easy ways to get your clients doing more postpartum planning.
This is a free class and info session on the postpartum navigator concept and training.
Are you a midwife or doula? Wondering how to include the workbook in your care? Here you’ll get lots of ideas.
PDF Downloads
The following resource pages can be shared freely, copied without credit given, and suggestions are always welcome.
Resources shared here in support of cultural congruent care and information.
These resources are Postpartum Traditions taught by folks of those lineages.
These are Anti-Racism for Perinatal Health resources. (more resources needed!)
Recommended Links
Postpartum Support International is dedicated to helping women suffering from perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, including postpartum depression, the most common complication of childbirth. They offer free support and resources. psioffice@postpartum.net or 1-800-944-4PPD.
La Leche League International is a wonderful site in many languages. La Leche League offers free breastfeeding information and support through monthly meetings and on-call support.
KellyMom.com informative site on evidence-based breastfeeding and parenting.
Global Health Media has excellent lactation videos.
Fourth Trimester Project is a comprehensive site covering all aspects of postpartum.
Mothering.com pregnancy, babies, natural family living, and more.
M2Mpostpartum.org is a postpartum justice project preserving multicultural postpartum wisdom.
ICAN (International Cesarean Awareness Network) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to improve maternal-child health by preventing unnecessary cesareans through education, providing support for cesarean recovery, and promoting Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC).
Homebirth Cesarean Org provides support and awareness around planned out-of-hospital births that end in cesareans, referred to as Homebirth Cesareans (HBCs). The Facebook group is active and available to parents and care providers.
TakeThemaMeal.com is a meal delivery organizing site because it does not require participants to create their own accounts.
Book Recommendations
Multiples
Mothering Multiples by Karen Kerkhoff Gromada
Health
Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child by Janet Zand
Mental Health / Trauma
The Mother-to-Mother Postpartum Depression Support Book by Sandra Poulin,
Waking the Tiger by Peter A. Levine
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
Parenting
Becoming the Parent You Want to Be by Laura Davis and Janis Keyser
Siblings Without Rivalry by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
How To Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
Simplicity Parenting by Kim John Payne
Playful Parenting by Lawrence J. Cohen
Unconditional Parenting by Alfie Kohn
Positive Discipline by Rebecca Eanes
Birth
Birthing From Within by Pam England
Pregnancy, Birth and the Newborn by Simkin, Whalley, and Keppler
A Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering by Sarah Buckley
Postpartum - Newborns
Mothering the New Mother by Sally Placksin
Natural Health After Birth by Avivia Jill Romm
After the Baby’s Birth by Robin Lim
Lockdown by Guang Ming
The First Forty Days by Heng Ou
The Fourth Trimester by Kimberly Ann Johnson
Breastfeeding
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding from La Leche League
Mother Food by Hilary Jacobson
Breastfeeding Grief by Hilary Jacobson
Cesarean
Homebirth Cesarean by Courtney Jarecki