Online / Book Resources

Finding a Midwife

• My health Alberta

Evidence Informed Information 

• Healthy Parents, Healthy Children - Alberta Health Services 

• Evidence Based Birth 

• Association of Ontario Midwives, Clinical Practice Guidelines 

Nutrition 

• Nutrition guidelines for pregnancy 

Oral health and pregnancy

• https://www.canada.ca/en/public-health/services/pregnancy/oral-health-pregnancy.html

Genetic Screening

• My Health Alberta

Due Date Calculator

• Baby Center’s Pregnancy Due Date Calculator 

How to Have a Better Birth

• https://mothersadvocate.org/index.htm

Waterbirth 

• Waterbirth International 

• Passages Pools 

• Five Elements Birth Services  

Homebirth 

• Outcomes of Planned Homebirth (Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2009) 

• Outcomes of Planned Homebirth (British Medical Association Journal, 2005)  

• An Annotated Guide to the Literature - University of British Columbia 

• Canadian Association of Midwives Homebirth Statement 

• TEDx Talk on Homebirth 

• Outcomes of Care for 16,924 Planned Home Births in the United States: The Midwives Alliance of North America Statistics Project, 2004 to 2009. (Journal of Midwifery, 2014) 

Doulas / Labor Support

• https://www.edmontondoula.org/

Local Resources

• https://www.edmontonbreastfeeding.com/

• https://albertafindadoctor.ca/pcn/edmonton-zone

3 Principals in Pregnancy

• Spinning Babies® Three Principles: Balance, Gravity, and Movement

Breastfeeding 

• Breastfeeding Online 

• La Leche League Canada 

• Edmonton Milk Bank

Cord Blood Banking 

• My Health Alberta

Newborn Issues 

• Canadian Pediatric Society 

• Co-Sleeping 

Midwifery Education

• Canadian Midwifery Regulators Consortium 

• Alberta Association of Midwives 

• Mount Royal University

Books

• Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Gaskin

• The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth, Kitzinger

• Birthing From Within, England/Horowitz

• Gentle Birth Choices, Harper

• Dr. Jack Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding

• The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, La Leche League