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🌿 Organizations & Networks
- WOMB – Women of the Mountains Birth Initiative – Non-profit serving Coos and Grafton counties of NH, offering support, education, and community to mothers and maternal health care workers.
- Be Her Village – A prenatal registry for parents seeking birth and postpartum services instead of traditional baby items.
- Vermont Birth Network – Comprehensive database of birth workers across Vermont.
- Evidence Based Birth – Putting current evidence based information into the hands of communities, so they can make empowered choices.
🎙 Podcasts
- The Great Birth Rebellion Podcast – Hosted by Australian research midwife Melanie, exploring stories, research, and knowledge about all aspects of birth for both expectant parents and birthworkers.
- Evidence Based Birth Podcast – In the Evidence Based Birth® Podcast, we cover the research evidence on hot topics about pregnancy and childbirth! Our mission is to raise the quality of childbirth care globally, by putting accurate, evidence based research into the hands of families and communities, so they can make informed, empowered choices. This show is perfect for anyone interested in birth options, from expecting parents to experienced birth professionals.
🩺 Practitioners & Services
- Pelvic Floor Specialist – Erin Samel – Based in Berlin, NH, focusing on pelvic floor maintenance and restoration before and after birth.
- Flourish Chiropractic – Chiropractic care in Littleton, NH, specializing in maternal and infant adjustments.
- Center for Acupuncture – Gary Rexford – Family acupuncture services based in Lancaster, NH.
- Sacred Hearth Doula – Michaela Tomko – Postpartum doula offering postpartum meal support, pregnancy loss support, and postpartum photography.
- All Around Birth – Jalina – Documentary-style photographer offering birth photography, in-home family photography, and baby remembrance photography to the areas surrounding Plattsburgh, New York and Burlington, Vermont, as well bereavement support calls.
- Empty Arms Vermont – Empty Arms Vermont provides peer support to individuals and families whose babies have died through miscarriage, stillbirth, early infant death (within the first year of infancy), or termination for medical reasons. By cultivating personal connections, creating a compassionate community, and fostering professional collaborations, we provide grieving parents with valuable resources and validation as they navigate the murky days, weeks, and lifetime without their baby.
- Monadnock Perinatal – Through Ashley’s birthing and breastfeeding journeys as a mom of 2 singletons and a set of twins, she has channeled that passion into helping others. Ashley has personal experience with singleton and multiple (twins) births, birthing vaginaly & cesarean births, birth center & hospital births as well as exclusively breastfeeding & pumping. Ashley specializes in birthing and breastfeeding multiples, and placenta encapsulation. Ashley is currently certified as an IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant), Birth Doula, Placenta Preparation Specialist, Postpartum Doula, VBAC Doula, Trained Babywearing Consultant, PAILAdvocate (Pregnancy and Infant Loss) and Cloth Diaper Advocate. Offering virtual and in-person childbirth education classes, and lactation education as well as comprehensive infant feeding consultations at my office space in Keene, NH. Services are offered to those in the Monadnock Region, New Hampshire and surrounding communities in Massachusetts, Vermont and beyond!
🖨 Free Downloadables
- When Loss Touches Your Heart – Easy resources for Pregnancy and Infant Loss
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