Pregnancy, Birth and Midwifery Media Center

Bibliographies, Collections, and Book Stores

Birth Resources with Gayle Peterson focuses on the personal reality of the pregnant couple, offering valuable approaches to explore and resolve emotional issues prior to birth.
MCN, The American Journal of Maternal/Child Nursing
Good Medicine Magazine, the online version of this preventative medicine publication, carries a variety of topics.
Hygeia...An Online Journal of Pregnancy and Neonatal Loss
MedWeb: Electronic Newsletters and Journals is a great resource with a wide variety of medical newletters and journals, including:
- Journal of nursing jocularity: Stories and cartoons by real health care professionals. Warning: They often poke fun at life and death situations and may be offensive to the layperson or the squeamish.
- Women's health weekly
Information from and about Midwifery Today, a small company that produces three midwifery publications.
Read Transition Midwifery Education Update and the Newsletter of the National Coalition of Midwifery Educators. For your free sample copy, just mail two 32 cent stamps to P.O. Box 40591 Eugene, Or 97404.
NurseWeek: Where nurses find the latest news, resources, and opportunities

Two Books by Henci Goer

Pregnancy and Birth Guide--Book Reviews
Abuse of pregnant woman and adverse birth outcome, a journal abstract from Midwifery Today
Read about Back Labor No More!! What every woman should know BEFORE labor, new book by Janie McCoy King
Review of Birth as an American Rite of Passage, by Robbie Davis-Floyd
Information about Birth-Tech: Tests and Technology in Pregnancy and Birth by Anne Charlish
Information about Midwifery Today's Breastfeeding Book

The Childbirth Kit, a book for parents-to-be, or aspiring parents-to-be!
Read about Paths to Becoming a Midwife: Getting an Education, a book from Midwifery Today with information about the various paths to midwifery, and listings of schools in the United States and Canada.
Review of Life Before Birth and Time To Be Born
Information about Life of a Midwife, a book that will show you the heart and soul of midwifery. For practicing and aspiring midwives, and for anyone who wants to know more about midwives!
Mother-To-Be: A Guide to Pregnancy and Birth for Women With Disabilities
A review of Trials of Labour: The Re-emergence of Midwifery. This is a detailed study of the available social science literature on childbirth and midwifery.
Review of Waterbirth: A Midwife's Perspective

Audio tapes from Midwifery Today
Read about the award winning videotape, WATER BABY: EXPERIENCES OF WATER BIRTH, at Karil's water birth website.
Loving Pregnancy with Partner Massage: An article and information about a video
The Parent's Owner's Manual is a video designed to guide parents in their new role.
Transitions Womb Sound Music has CD's and and cassettes for babies, to soothe and help them sleep.

New Baby Greeting Cards
Heartbeat Designs has created a unique fine pendant for all mothers,adoption, midwives, doula's, pro-life, infant nurses and those who hold a baby in their heart. You have never seen a more heartfelt design than the "You Grew In My Heart" pendant. It is sure to become a treasured family heirloom.
Harriette Hartigan produces beautiful birth photography that is often used in Midwifery Today magazine
The Interactive Pregnancy Calendar is a great site! It takes the the relevant dates and generates a calendar that explains what is happening in a pregnancy from day-to-day
Pregnant Bellymasks: A creative, fun, and unique way to make a memo of your pregnancy!
For midwives: A list of useful forms and other material from Windsong Midwifery