Resources
Websites
- Our web site’s inspiration from the UK: Home Birth Reference Site by Angela Horn
- The Midwife Archives is a collection of information about all aspects of pregnancy, birth and well-woman care from a midwifery perspective. Compiled and maintained by Ronnie Falcão, a homebirth midwife in Mountain View, California.
- Womansbirth - Homebirth info
- Conscious Woman: Women's health workshops and ebooks
- Pushed Birth: A blog chronicling the political climate for birth, kept by Jennifer Block
Books
- Born in the USA: How a Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed to Put Women and Children First, Marsden Wagner.
- Journey Into Motherhood by Sheri L. Menelli.
- The Reality of Breastfeeding: Reflections by Contemporary Women (Paperback) by Amy Benson Brown (Editor), Kathryn Read McPherson (Editor)
- Spontaneous Creation: 101 Reasons Not to Have Your Baby in a Hospital, Vol. 1 by Jock Doubleday
- Pushed: The Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care, by Jennifer Block
Videos
- A Natural Delivery of Vertex Twins
- Birth As We Know It
- Birth Day
- Home Birth: The Spirit, The Science and The Mother
- Homebirthrites...A Homebirth Documentary
- I Watched My Brother Being Born
- Psalm and Zoya
Support Groups (online/offline)
- Families for Natural Living chapters
- Search Yahoo’s Groups for homebirth
- Homebirth Meetups
- Attachment Parenting International
- Mothering.com message boards
- Birth Network
- Local support groups (by state)
Articles
- “The Assault on Normal Birth: The OB Disinformation Campaign,” by Henci Goer
- “Babies are Conscious,” by David B. Chamberlain, Ph.D.
- “The Homebirth Choice,” by Jill Cohen and Marti Dorsey
- “Home Birth Matters.” BIRTH - Issues in Perinatal Care. March 2000 Vol. 27.1 Sheila Kitzinger's Letter from Europe.
- “Homebirth Under Fire: What the Headlines Don't Say,” by Jill MacCorkle. Mothering. Issue 117, March/April 2003.
- “Homebirth: What Are the Issues?” by Sara Wickham, RM, BA (Hons) © 1999 Midwifery Today, Inc. All rights reserved.
- “There's no Place Like Home: The advantages and and joys and of giving birth where you live,” By Pam England.
Organizations
- American College of Nurse-Midwives
- Childbirth Connection
- Citizens for Midwifery
- The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services (CIMS)
- Foundation for the Advancement of Midwifery
- Holistic Pediatric Association
- International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN)
- Midwives Alliance of North America
- Waterbirth International
Publications/Magazines
Research/Studies
- "Home versus hospital deliveries: follow up study of matched pairs for procedures and outcome", Ackermann-Liebrich et al.
- Homebirth – Safety and Benefits
- "Is Homebirth with a Midwife Safe?," Overton (Association of Texas Midwives)
- Medical literature on the safety of Homebirth
- "Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America," Kenneth C Johnson and Betty-Anne Daviss, British Medical Journal 2005.
- "Outcomes of Planned Home Birth: An Integrative Review," Judith T. Fullerton, CNM, PhD, Ana M. Navarro, PhD, and Susan H. Young, MA. J Midwifery Women's Health 2007;52:323-333.
- "Safety of Alternative Approaches to Childbirth," Peter F. Schlenzka
- Learning to evaluate research:
- "Introduction To Research In Library And Information Science," R.E. Wyllys. UT - Austin.
- "Evaluating Research Quality: Guidelines for Scholarship," by Todd Litman, Victoria Transport Policy Institute.
- "When Research is Flawed: Critiques of Influential Research Studies," Henci Goer.