Pregnancy Resources
- Spinning Babies - Exercises you can do daily to make space for baby. Check out the Three Sisters
- Hormones of labor
- How to safely wear a seatbelt when you're pregnant
- How to choose a birth ball
- Stages of labor video
Postpartum Resources
- WA Paid Family Medical Leave - If you work in WA state, you may be entitled to PFMLA. This site tells you how to apply.
- Placenta Encapsulation in Seattle
- Postpartum Doulas - in Seattle - scroll down
- Postpartum Doulas - Outside Seattle
- Cesarean rates at Seattle hospitals
- Postpartum Mood Disorders questionnaire - Fill this out weekly from now onwards
- Perinatal Support Washington - An excellent resource for postpartum mental health. They have a free phone line that you can call for resources, support groups, therapists, advice etc.
Newborn Resources
- Baby gear - what do you actually need?
- Infant Cues video
- Vitamin K shot - Evidence Based Birth article
- Hepatitis B shot - CDC
- Erythromycin Eye Ointment - Evidence Based Birth article
- Delayed Cord Clamping after birth - ACOG guidance
- Baby Tracker app
- Period of purple crying
- Bathing your baby video
- Bathing your baby in a swaddle- Ignore the product. Any swaddle or towel will do
- How to swaddle using a muslin swaddle
Hospital Tours
- Swedish hospital tour
- Evergreen hospital tour
- Virginia Mason hospital tour
- Overlake hospital tour
- UW Montlake hospital tour
- UW Northwest hospital tour
- Valley Medical Center hospital tour
Labor Resources
- Positions for each stage of labor cheat sheet
- ACOG's own practice guidelines - Approaches to limit intervention during labor and birth
- Hospital Birth Packing List
- Swedish hospital birth preferences form
- Birth Doulas - Outside Seattle.
- Miles Circuit
- Evidence on inducing for due dates - Evidence Based Birth article
- Third Stage Pitocin - Evidence Based Birth article
- Fetal Monitoring - Evidence Based birth article
- IV Fluids in Labor - Evidence Based Birth article
- Possible positions with an epidural
- Playdough cesarean birth video
- Evidence for skin to skin with baby after a cesarean birth - Evidence Based Birth article
- Ideas for the best planned cesarean possible by Penny Simkin
Feeding Resources
- Baby doing the breast-crawl right after birth video
- Getting a good latch breast/body feeding video
- How to hand express
- KellyMom - Great website for all things evidence based feeding
- Catherine Fenner - Excellent Seattle lactation consultant
- Betsy Hoffmeister- Excellent Seattle lactation consultant
- Paced bottle feeding