Links

Acupuncture

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.

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

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

Midwifery Education

Naturopathy

Over 40 Moms

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

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.

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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