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Active Birth
Centre
UK business providing information and products to help parents
make informed choices. Specialists in waterbirth and Active Birth classes.
AIMS Ireland
www.aimsireland.com
Alliance for the Improvement
of Maternity Services - AIMS USA
www.aimsusa.org
Association of Radical Midwives
'Radical' in the sense of returning to the origins of
midwifery. For midwives and parents who want to see midwives practising as
independent professionals in the NHS.
www.radmid.demon.co.uk
BirthChoiceUK
Independent website helping women in the UK to choose where to give birth.
Provides comparative statistics on interventions and outcomes in different
hospitals.
www.birthchoiceuk.com
Birth Resource Centre, Edinburgh
A registered charity that provides classes,
information and support for women and their partners before and after childbirth.
Caesarean Birth and VBAC Information
Information about caesarean birth and VBAC. Articles, reading list, birth stories, scar pictures and more.
www.caesarean.org.uk
Doula UK
A volunteer organisation run by Doulas, provides information about Doula and contact details of practicing Doulas
www.doula.co.uk
Home Birth Reference Site
Research supporting the home birth choice, birth stories, and how to book a home birth in the UK.
www.homebirth.org.uk
National Childbirth Trust
Antenatal education and postnatal support for UK
parents.
www.nctpregnancyandbabycare.com
One Mother, One Midwife Campaign
Campaign group for the implementation of the Independent Midwives Association's
NHS Community midwife Model
www.onemotheronemidwife.org.uk
Sheila Kitzinger's Homepage
Articles and photographs on waterbirth, home birth, and other
aspects of motherhood.
www.sheilakitzinger.com
Your Baby Your Body
Independent website with the aim of providing factual information about pregnancy and birth,
information the medical profession may be slow in offering, aiding women's informed choices
about maternity care. Offers a weekly round up of maternity news stories from across the world.
www.yourbabyyourbody.co.uk
Midwife archives at Gentlebirth.org
Information and forums for midwives. Has an
"alternative" health content.
www.gentlebirth.org/archives/
MIDIRS - Midwives'
Information and Resource Service
www.midirs.org
Independent Midwives Association
www.independentmidwives.org.uk
Maternity and the Newborn
A forum of the Royal Society of Medicine, for the discussion of
issues at the cutting edge of pregnancy, birth, and care of the
newborn.
www.motherhood.org.uk
Birth in Angus
The web site of the North Angus Community Maternity Unit.
www.birthinangus.org.uk
British Medical Journal
www.bmj.com
The Lancet
www.thelancet.com
Medscape
Plenty of information and a good searchable database
with links to Medline, but articles tend to be very conservative,
with little support for 'alternative' approaches.
www.medscape.com
The Cochrane Pregnancy and Childbirth Index
Teams of subject specialists review research in an effort to support
evidence-based healthcare. Again, tends to be very conservative.
www.nelh.nhs.uk/cochrane.asp
The Healthcare Commission
Promotes improvement in the quality of NHS and
independent healthcare in England, and is known as the health watchdog.
www.healthcarecommission.org.uk
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