The following resource list is merely that: a recommended list of resources for pregnancy, breastfeeding, parenting and beyond for individuals or providers. These are the resources I tell my patients and colleagues about on a daily basis. This list has been a decade in the making and was created through many years of nursing school. I hope you find this list as useful as I do. My personal comments are in italics and handouts, PDFs and apps area highlight throughout the list.
Have a recommended resource, update or comment? Please send me a comment here!
- Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine
- AfterThird
- A website aimed at support for new parents! Check out their blog too!
- American Association of Birth Centers
- American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
- Handout (PDF): Bright Futures (4th Ed.)
- Healthy Children (English, Spanish)
- Neonatal Resuscitation Program
- Are you a NRP instructor?
- American Association of Women’s Health and Neonatal Nurses (AWHONN)
- American College of Nurse Midwives (ACNM)
- Share with Women Handouts
- Patient education handouts on a variety of topics; I use these in my practice every day!
- Share with Women Handouts
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- Committee Opinions
- Infographic: 21 Reasons to See a Gynecologist Before You Are 21
- Infographic: The Well Woman Exam
- Position Statements
- Webinar (FREE!): Contraception and Breastfeeding (approx 1 hour)
- American Nurses Credentialing Center
- FREE brochure: How to Display your Credentials?
- A must for nurse practitioner students and new practitioners!
- American Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology
- App: ASCCP Mobile Consensus Guidelines on Management of Women with Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Tests and Cancer Precursors ($9.99)
- Highly recommended! I use this app in clinic every week.
- A must for nurse practitioner students.
- App: ASCCP Mobile Consensus Guidelines on Management of Women with Abnormal Cervical Cancer Screening Tests and Cancer Precursors ($9.99)
- Ask Me 3 Campaign
- Ask Me 3® is an educational program that encourages patients and families to ask three specific questions of their providers to better understand their health conditions and what they need to do to stay healthy.
- Baby education
- Baby’s First Test
- Back Pain in Pregnancy
- Belly Casting
- Birth Works International
- Birthing from Within
- Birthing the Future
- Breastfeeding
- Association of Women’s Health Obstetric and Neonatal Nurses Position Statement on Breastfeeding
- Baby Care Centers at Disneyland
- Traveling to Disneyland with a baby or toddler? Need a quiet place stocked with changing tables, rocking chairs, toddler toilets and more? Check these centers out on your next vacation. They proved a lovely break from the bustle of Disney for our nursing baby during our last vacation.
- Breastmilk Banking
- Breast pump bags
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Healthy Children’s Center for Breastfeeding
- Healthy Mom and Baby
- Kellymom.com
- Hands down my personal favorite and most recommended website for patients on all things breastfeeding.
- Recommended books on breastfeeding
- FREE handouts
- National Breastfeeding Center
- Determines report cards of insurance companies related to breastfeeding
- Examines types of services, types of providers, types of pumps and accessibility
- Proper Handling and Storage of Breastmilk
- Surgeon General’s Call to Breastfeeding
- Breech
- See “Spinning Babies”
- British Journal of Midwifery
- Car Seat Safety
- Phone number: 1-866-SEATCHECK
- Centering Healthcare Institute
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
- National Infant Immunization Week
- National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP)
- A program to help low-income, uninsured, and underinsured women gain access to breast and cervical cancer screening, diagnostic testing, and treatment services.
- Preconception
- Childbirth Connection
- Choosing Wisely Campaign (a website promoting conversation between patients and clinicians)
- American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists: Ten Things Patients and Physicians Should Question
- Downloadable resources to bring to your visit, put in your waiting room (if you’re a provider or work in a clinic) or to give out to patients during their visit!
- Scheduling early delivery of your baby [PDF available: here]
- Cleveland Clinic
- Coalition for Improving Maternity Services
- FREE documents and downloads here
- Colorado Department of Public Health
- Commonwealth Fund
- Affordable, quality healthcare for everyone
- Contraception
- Coronavirus (COVID-19)
- ACNM: Responding to COVID-19
- ACOG: COVID-19 Questions for Obstetricians and Gynecologists
- CDC: COVID-19 and Pregnancy/Breastfeeding
- CDC: How to manage stress and anxiety related to COVID-19
- Google’s new website for all things COVID-19
- KellyMom’s recommendations for COVID-19
- Informational resources about COVID-19:
- Resources for those who may need assistance with mental health, food, PPE and housing:
- The President’s Coronavirus Guidelines for America: 15 Days to Slow the Spread
- The PRIORITY Study from University of California San Francisco.
- This study is looking specifically at pregnant women that were with COVID-19 of PUI (persons under investigation). The study currently has 180 women involved. If you or someone you know qualifies, please contact the researchers!
- World Health Organization: Coronavirus Pandemic
- World Health Organization: COVID-19 Myths
- World Health Organization Q+A: COVID-19, Pregnancy, Childbirth, & Breastfeeding
- Co-Sleeping
- Articles on Co-Sleeping
- Diversity
- Muslim Religion
- DONA International
- Doulas
- Reading recommendations from a doula instagram: @doulalibrary
- ECRI Institute
- A free database to view clinical guidelines (you do have to make an account, but again… it’s FREE!)
- Equity in Midwifery Education
- Every Mother Counts
- Family and Medical Leave
- Paid Leave for All campaign
- Global Health Media – FREE videos on labor, postpartum, and breastfeeding!
- VIDEO: Positions for birth
- VIDEO: What to expect in labor
- VIDEO: What to expect in birth
- Greater Good Science Center
- Group B Strep Association
- Human Milk Banking Association of North America
- Learn more about establishing a milk bank in your community here!
- Hypnobirthing
- Infographics
- International Center for Traditional Childbearing
- A non-profit infant mortality prevention, breastfeeding support, and midwife training organization
- International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA)
- International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
- International Resources
- Global Health Delivery Online
- Hosts free, online, virtual, week-long events that bring together leading experts to share their knowledge and discuss key issues in the field
- Global Health Learning Center
- Free online courses
- International Confederation of Midwives (ICM)
- Maya Midwifery International
- Charity assisting Guatemalan midwives
- News Articles about International Midwifery
- Omnimed
- Promotes health volunteerism
- One Nurse at a Time
- Promotes nursing opportunities to volunteer’
- Global Health Delivery Online
- Joint Commission (TJC)
- Kaiser Family
- Great organization focusing on health policy research, analysis, polling, etc.
- Annual Health Benefits Reports
- 2016 Report or summary of findings here
- Lamaze International
- LactMed
- Resource to look up medications or substances that may effect breastfeeding women. The provider or the patient can look up individual medications or substances by using the search bar. I use this resource regularly in clinic to review the research available with women.
- Download the app here – an amazing FREE resource for women and providers!
- The Lancet
- British Medical Journal, FREE to subscribe!
- March of Dimes
- Mayo Clini
- MediHoney
- Medscape
- Men In Nursing!
- Midwifery Today
- Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
- National Association of Postpartum Care Services
- National Cancer Institute
- National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (NCCIH)
- Herbs at a Glance
- A series of brief fact sheets that provides basic information about specific herbs or botanicals
- Free APP: HerbList – more info here
- Herbs at a Glance
- National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management
- National Council of State Boards of Nursing
- National Institute for Health
- National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE)
- National Partnership for Women and Families
- National Vulvodynia Association
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Organ Donation
- Pelvic Floor Therapy/Physical Therapy
- APTA Pelvic Health
- MyPFM – My Pelvic Floor Muscle
- Article: Musculoskeletal Dysfunction During Pregnancy and After Childbirth
- Article: Pelvic Pain: Causes, Symptoms, Physical Therapy Treatment
- Article: Questions to ask your physical therapist
- Article: Tips for Improving Urge Incontinence and Bladder Health
- Article: Physical Pain with Sex
- Article: 10 Step Guide to Putting Your Pelvic Floor First
- YouTube channel: ChoosePT
- Podcasts
- Cochrane podcasts
- The latest evidence shared in audio format – great for to and from work, or while folding some laundry.
- Journey to Midwifery
- An excellent podcast about the journey to becoming a midwife – insightful, heartfelt, funny, and inspiring!
- What’s Up With Your Down There?
- Cochrane podcasts
- Poison Help
- Phone: 1-800-222-1222
- Postpartum depression/anxiety
- AfterThird
- A website aimed at support for new parents!
- The Blue Dot Project
- Postpartum Support International
- Handout: Perinatal Mental Health Discussion Tool
- A great tool for any mama or midwife looking to communicate better with their provider about their mood during the postpartum period. Resources are listed at the bottom for support groups and a free helpline.
- Handout: Perinatal Mental Health Discussion Tool
- AfterThird
- Physiologic Birth Resources
- Consensus Statement of ACNM/MANA/NACPM
- Science and Sensibility Blog
- A lamaze research blog about pregnancy, birth and beyond
- Preconception
- Show Your Love: Preconception Health
- Show your love is a national campaign designed to promote wellbeing and support young adults as they strive to achieve their goals and make healthy lifestyle choices today.
- Show Your Love: Preconception Health
- Secrets of Baby Behavior
- Shared Decision Making
- Icon Array
- Create your own infographic based on our SDM goals!
- Less is More Medicine
- TONS of SDM handouts, websites and tools
- Mayo Clinic SDM tools:Cardiovascular Primary Prevention Choice
- Depression Medication Choice
- Diabetes Medication Choice
- Osteoporosis Choice
- PCI (Percutaneous coronary intervention) Choice
- Smoking Cessation Around the Time of Surgery
- PDF: Ottawa Personal Decision Making Guide
- A basic SDM handout that could be used for almost any decision making!
- Shared Decision Making Fact Sheet
- Shared Decision Making Implementation Roadmap
- Published by Minnesota Shared Decision-Making Collaborative, it’s a how to implement SDM into your practice.
- PDF: Shared Decision Making Made Easy
- Great 1 page print out for you desk at work.
- PDF: Person Centered Decision Making (by Birth Place Lab)
- Icon Array
- Smoking Cessation Resources
- Phone resource: 1-800-QUIT NOW
- Spinning Babies
- Your Pregnancy Week by Week (love the affirmations at the end of each post!)
- Society for Maternal and Fetal Medicine
- Suicide
- The 4th Trimester Project
- Postpartum information on a variety of topics: healing, staying well, breasts, when to call for help, emotions, your bottom, sex…and more!
- Vaccinations
- World Health Organization
