Links
In the Community
Greenhouse Birth Center Village This forum is for families who share the same values as the women who founded the Greenhouse Birth Center in Michigan. Topics may include attachment parenting, the midwifery model of care, unmedicated birth, on-demand and extended breastfeeding, resources for natural parenting, and other subjects related to natural parenting. We look forward to meeting you and hope this group is helpful to you and your family. If you are interested in finding out more about this group, please e-mail one of the moderators using the link above.
Abiding by the Community Agreement is required in order to become a member and maintain membership. For information regarding the guidelines, please see here.
Lansing Babywearers is a nonprofit babywearing organization. In his book "Touching" (HarperCollins, 1986)renowned anthropologist, Ashley Montagu proposed that the first nine months of an infant's life be called "exterogestation", a period that is the same length of time spent in utero. This group is a way to teach caregivers that all babies would benefit from being worn. That is the group's primary goal: to promote babywearing by educating the general public about its benefits.
Regional Childbirth Choices
The Center for the Childbearing Year Ann Arbor, Michigan’s Center for the Childbearing Year is a thriving community of childbearing families and professionals who serve them. They provide contemporary birth preparation, comprehensive breastfeeding support, DONA International birth and postpartum doula workshops, cutting-edge continuing education programs for professionals, MotherBaby support groups, and a lending library with community resources.
Alternative Birth Care A holistic green oriented birth center located in Southfield, Michigan.
About Natural Childbirth
Gentlebirth
is dedicated to providing information that
will help families have the best birth possible - a safe, gentle,
positive birth experience that supports happy, healthy families.
This site was created and is maintained by
Ronnie Falcao, LM MS, a homebirth
midwife in Mountain View, California.
Natural
Childbirth was created to help fill a need on the Internet for a
single large resource for people interested in natural childbirth education
and midwifery.
Why
Have A Natural Childbirth? An excellent essay written by
Shelly Girard,
B.S.,L.M.,C.P.M..
She is a Certified Massage Therapist, Licensed Midwife, and Certified
Professional Midwife with 30 years experience in body/mind medicine. She has
a homebirth practice in Los Angeles, is a co- founder of
The
Wholistic Midwifery School of Southern California, and earned a
Masters in Public Health in Maternal-Child Health from U.C.L.A.
Sheila Kitzinger
Here you can explore aspects of birth, drawing on things that Sheila has
learned from women around the world and her research as a social
anthropologist into women's experiences of pregnancy, birth and
breastfeeding.
Breastfeeding
Kellymom's
AP Site.
This website was developed to
provide
evidence-based information on breastfeeding, sleep and parenting.
Her goal is that her articles are helpful and encouraging.
La Leche League Int'l.
The La Leche League International mission
is: To help mothers worldwide to breastfeed through mother-to-mother
support, encouragement, information, and education and to promote a
better understanding of breastfeeding as an important element in the
healthy development of the baby and mother.
GotMom.org
was created by the American
College of Nurse-Midwives to provide breastfeeding information and resources
for mothers and families.
Cloth Diapers
Jillian's Drawers. Jillian's Drawers is a cloth diaper business started and run by a Greenhouse Birth Center family. You will be able to compare colors, prints, and sizes, and see how wonderful their diapers, covers, inserts, and accessories are. They even carry some slings. They add new products frequently, so check their website often. You will be amazed at how far cloth diapers have come!
Z. Bear Diapers. An eco-friendly cloth
diapering, nursing support, colic relief, and baby wearing store. Located
just south of Lansing, MI, and well known for our outstanding customer
attention, we are here to make your journey in baby care eco-conscience and
worry free!
Come take a look at their cloth diaper display at The Greenhouse Birth
Center in Okemos.
Photography
Wings & Roots Photography. At Wings & Roots, we celebrate the beauty in the big events and the little moments that make our lives so special. From maternity and birth to weddings and anniversaries we will be there to record your family's milestones on film. Owned by a GBC mom who has birthed three babies under the midwives' care. Contact her through the website or at 248-761-3393.
Attachment Parenting
Elizabeth Pantley. Excellent advice on raising children from parent educator and author of The No-Cry Sleep Solution and Perfect Parenting. Avoid Cry-It-Out and help your children welcome sleep.
Natural Family Living
Mothering magazine. Mothering celebrates the experience of parenthood as worthy of one's best efforts and fosters awareness of the immense importance and value of parenthood and family life in the development of the full human potential.
Natural Family Online.
Your
"how-to" resource for natural family living, natural beauty, natural home,
health & wellness, and natural parenting. No matter what your personal or
parenting style, we offer tips, tools and information everyone can use!
Midwifery
Citizens for Midwifery. Citizens for Midwifery – the only national consumer-based group promoting the Midwives Model of Care! CfM works to provide information and resources that promote the local midwife, as well as midwives and midwifery care across the country!