I'd never heard of this until a dear friend told me about her sister's death from one pill of prescribed methadone ... please read!

A blog about postpartum mood disorders and also a place for mothers to tell their story about PPD

Shaping US Policies that help women lift themselves and their families out of poverty

Helping women make informed maternity care decisions

Dedicated to providing people with information and services for a Conscious approach to Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth, enabling every person the ability to acheive the most in life.

Helping women and families make decisions for pregnancy, childbirth, labor pain relief, the post partum period, and other maternity care issues

Working to improve the health status of women, babies and families by increasing awareness of and access to the midwifery model of care.

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A natural approach to safer, easier, more comfortable birthing

Birthing without doctors or midwives ... thoughts from a 'birth philosopher'

Provides childbearing women and maternity care professionals access to research-based information, resources, continuing education and support for VBAC* (vaginal birth after cesarean).

Easier birth through fetal positioning

Birth: it’s a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to exa