BIRTH
Apps
There’s an app for that…literally, there’s an app for everything. Here’s a few to consider trying:
Frey: The Positive Birth Company App- this is going to appeal to you are a meditative person and like British accents. Apple.
Childbirth Education
Birth Boot Camp offers online childbirth classes
Built to Birth- Learn more, fear less. Online class comes with lifetime access
Evidence Based Birth Childbirth Classes are offered virtually in longer and accelerated formats
Intelligent Birthing offers a self paced, online birthing course. You can purchase the book ad a discount with code: friend30
Island Hospital offers 2 day and 6 week childbirth classes (not during a pandemic). Teri Shilling, the childbirth educator and lactation consultant is offering online express classes at this time.
Sharon Muza is a Seattle-based Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator who offers a variety of online classes
Miranda teaches a four hour Weekend Childbirth Education Class once every 2 months for The Holding Space
Want to sit at home and watch a fantastic, free, 584-part (sarcasm) childbirth education series? Try YouTube: Faith’s Childbirth Education Hospital Class. User Wagonbird. The class is filmed at a hospital in Colorado.
For Dads: Check out the Conscious Fathering class taught at Swedish (available on-line).
Doulas
If you’re interested and you can afford one, please consider hiring one. In a perfect world, they would be included in insurance coverage because they truly improve outcomes! While I’ve worked with dozens of doulas, I have minimal experience with local doulas and will not recommend anyone in particular. Here’s a few options:
Ann Julene @ Earthside Birth Doula and Lactation Co- 360-982-1371
Erica Coulter @ Badass Birthing
Liz Lefebvre- 801-413-6340
Lori Mortimer @ Labor with Love
North Cascade Doulas- doula collective
Multiple birth topics
Evidence Based Birth offers videos, blogs, podcasts, articles and one-page handouts on a variety of birth related topics. They do a great job of compiling all of the evidence.
Perineal tearing
Physiologic Birth
What is physiologic birth?
ACOG (the governing organization for Obstetricians) recommends less intervention for birth: ACOG Approaches to Limit Intervention During Labor and Birth
Vitamin K
Vitamin K is an injection strongly recommended for your newborn. Evidence Based Birth has a great information page on this topic. Please read it of you have concerns about Vitamin K.