• Acupuncture Center of Ann Arbor: providing treatment for support of pregnancy and postpartum.
• Acupuncture Healthcare Associates of Michigan: specializing in infertility, pregnancy, and postpartum issues.

Breastfeeding

• The Breastfeeding Center of Ann Arbor: offers comprehensive breastfeeding support with a board-certified lactation consultant, classes, products, support group, and a Human Milk Bank Depot.
• Baby Beloved, Inc. aspires to support, honor and celebrate the ancient art of breastfeeding and its integration into the family system and the community. Passionately dedicated to helping you meet your breastfeeding goals. Offering classes, consultations, and a boutique for all of your nursing needs.
• Baby Love: offers a full range of the most trusted brands in breastfeeding supplies, including pumps and nursing bras, as well as mom & baby skin care, cloth diapers, and babywearing gear.

Business Services

• Ann Arbor Computer Home Service: On-site home and office complete PC services. Repairs, virus removal and prevention, computer set-up and configuration, wireless networking, data backup solutions, email and internet setup, hardware and software consultation, and program instruction. All services provided by owner Gerald Brennan. Call for help at 734-417-7163.
• Ann Arbor Office Rentals: Free service that helps companies find and negotiate the best deals for office space in Ann Arbor.

Childbirth Related

• Birth Network: a non-profit, consumer-advocacy group promoting awareness of the benefits and availability of healthy, normal pregnancy and childbirth through information and support.
• Citizens for Midwifery: a national consumer-based group promoting the Midwives Model of Care and providing midwifery information and resources.
• DONA International: an international, non-profit organization of doulas that promotes continuing education for doulas and provides a strong communication link among doulas and between doulas, families and the medical birthing community.
• Drug Watch provides up-to-date information about the side effects of common prescription and over-the-counter medications to help educate consumers and patients; Accutane lawsuit and legal options associated with this drug recall.
• Life Passages Publishing and Childbirth Consulting Services: Provider website with a directory of birth attendants.
• MANA (Midwives Alliance of North America): an organization of midwives and midwifery advocates.
• Midwifery Today: information about midwifery, pregnancy, birth, homebirth, natural birth, breastfeeding, and herbs from Midwifery Today magazine.
• Pregnancy Corner is designed to offer pregnancy information with more of a social networking feel and an editorial board of professionals.
• SpinningBabies: website of Gail Tully, author of The Belly Mapping Workbook. Fun site all about baby’s positioning in the womb and how to correct mal-positioning.

Child Care

• Child Care Network: helping families work by offering child care referrals, family support, child care scholarships, and professional development for child care professionals.

Children’s Programs

• Robinsongs for Kids presents Music Together classes, an internationally recognized music program for children from 0–5 years and the adults who love them, including a Babies Only class for babies 6 months and younger.

Chiropractors

• Andan Chiropractic: Chiropractic care for pregnant women and infants, as well as the entire family. Webster breech-turning technique.
• Touch of Life Chiropractic: Chiropractic care for families, children, and pregnant women. Webster breech-turning technique.

Counselor/Therapists

• Melisa Schuster offers therapy and supportive counseling to women and their families during the childbearing year.
• Valerie Taylor, Ann Arbor-based psychotherapist.

Diapers

• 29 Diapers: Cloth Diapers Explained offers new parents the only complete explanation of modern cloth diapers online, plus tips on how to save 70% off the cost of baby’s first year while going green. Frequent giveaways.
• Dirty Deeds Diaper Service delivers soft, clean, 100% cotton pre-fold diapers to your door every week.

Doulas

• Artemesia: offering birth doula services and herbal products.
• Birth’s Journey Doula Services: birth doula services.
• Cradle of Birth: birth doula services.
• Crowning Lotus Doula Service: West Michigan labor support for a better birthing experience.
• Dawn of Life Birth Services: offering birth and postpartum doula services as well as Birthing From Within Extra-ordinary Childbirth Preparation Classes.
• Metro Detroit Doulas & Childbirth Educators: offers listings for doulas, childbirth educators, and more.
• My Doula Dawn: Dawn Bussey offers birth doula services and free quarterly public lectures titled, “What is a Doula, Anyway?”
• Nanny on Wheels: providing exceptional birth and postpartum doula services, from exploring the mother’s birth plan priorities to guiding the parent(s) in newborn care.
• Pregnancy Arts Ann Arbor: Perinatal wellness services including Reiki, pregnancy coaching, family coaching and doula services.
• Sacred Roots Doula Services: Birth and postpartum doula services in Ann Arbor and surrounding communities.
• Support for Growing Families: Ann Arbor postpartum doula, Catherine Fischer.

Find a Midwife

• Born2BaBlessing: midwifery, doula, and childbirth education services with a Christian philosphy.
• Greenhouse Birth Center: a freestanding, independent birthing center in Okemos, MI.
• Michigan Midwives Association: an expanding network of midwives, apprentices and childbirth educators who represent a wide spectrum of philosophies; site includes a directory of midwives.
• New Moon Midwifery: a partnership of two experienced Ann Arbor midwives who provide prenatal, homebirth, and postpartum care to pregnant women and their families.

Home Safety/Baby Proofing

• D&M Toddler Safety, Inc. Child safety service consists of in-home evaluations, installation and sales of products. Michigan and northern Ohio.
• Mortgageloan.com/homehazards/ offers a comprehensive consumer guide to home hazards.

Midwifery Education

• American College of Nurse-Midwives: news and information along with a national directory of midwives.
• North American Registry of Midwives: NARM is an international certification agency whose mission is to establish and administer certification for the credential “Certified Professional Midwife” (CPM).
• PhD in Health Services: Get online degree from top Universities and Colleges in U.S. Contact The Degree Experts.

Naturopathy

• Center for Health, Yoga and Naturopathic Psychotherapy: Dr. Aurore Adamkiewicz is an ayurvedic naturopath and author of the book Beyond Natural Cures. After healing her own son from autism she has created bio-therapeutic yoga, naturopathic psychotherapy, the Aurorachrome color therapy machine, and a Waldorf-inspired music therapy program for children.
• Mary Light Natural Medicine, Ann Arbor, MI
• Naturopathic College of Ann Arbor

Over 40 Moms

• Flower Power Mom—The Truth About Motherhood After 40. An online resource offering information, tips, advice, book reviews, nostalgia, regular blog articles and a monthly newsletter for new moms over 40.

Pediatricians

• Turke and Thomashow Pediatrics. Suzanne Thomashow, MD and Paul Turke, MD provide pediatric care from birth to age 25 for children in Ann Arbor, Chelsea, and surrounding Michigan communities.

Photography

• InSight Photography: Photographs bringing to sight the exquisite experience of childbirth from pregnancy to newborns, breastfeeding and beyond. A Gallery of Art for the eye of your soul. Teaching resources on DVD for midwives, doulas, childbirth educators.

Prenatal Yoga and Exercise

• BalancePoint Fitness: offers personal training, pre- and post-natal fitness, exercise classes, and self defense.
• Gyrotonic Ann Arbor and The Movement Center: Experienced, certified trainers offer pre and post natal pilates, gyrotonic, and gyrokinesis training.
• The Yoga Space: Iyengar yoga teachers, extensively trained and certified to work with individual students and their specific issues so that pregnant women are included and accommodated in regular classes.

Products

• 500 Babies – Baby Clothing: Visit our online boutique for the highest quality self manufactured baby clothing accessories including headbands, hats, legwarmers, tutus, and more.
• Dexter Pharmacy 2 carries a wide variety of natural health and skincare items.
• Essential Oils & Herbal Healing & Cosmetic Skin Care
• Nursery — BabyAccessorize.com: Shop online for baby nursery furniture and products at low internet prices and fast home delivery service.

Resources

• AnnArborHolistic.com: Online resource guide of practitioners of the healing arts, developed by Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room in downtown Ann Arbor.
• Circumcision Decision-Maker: New website takes visitors through the decision-making process, helping them to make an informed choice.
• Elizabeth Pantley: Advice, solutions, links, and books about parenting. By the author of The No-Cry Solution series of parenting books.
• Michigan Travel Information: Tourism and travel information and other resources in the state.
• Mothering.com: from the publishers of Mothering Magazine, celebrating the experience of parenthood as worth of one’s best efforts and fostering awareness of the value of parenthood and family life in the development of the natural attachment parenting community.
• Baby Centre by Mummypages: Provides information, tips and advice about newborn and baby basics. It tells first time parents how to take care of the baby; also advises about what to do and what not to.

Support Groups

• Hearth in the Hills: offering childcare and parent support groups.

Other Services

• Belly Beautiful: Pregnancy henna is an ancient art form that uses an all-natural, safe paste on top of the skin, providing an excellent opportunity to relax, be pampered, and if you wish, talk about the transition you’re approaching.
• Yoga Insurance: NACAMS provides yoga liability insurance, public education programs, marketing resources, yoga teacher insurance and yoga instructor insurance; the perfect yoga teacher insurance policy, with excellent benefits, to protect your practice.

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