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Links

Acupuncture

• Acupuncture Center of Ann Arbor: providing treatment for support of pregnancy and postpartum.
• Michael Allan Guilpain: traditional Chinese acupuncture services.

Breastfeeding

• Breastfeeding.com: breastfeeding information, support, and attitude.

Business Services

• Pilcrow Text & Design: Desktop publishing and web design services with a focus on woman-owned businesses and non-profit organizations.
• 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 Injury News:The Consumer Justice Group’s web page. Includes articles on the benefits of natural chidbirth and a birth plan outline.
• 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.
• Birthing With Joy provides birth and postpartum doula services and Bradley Method Childbirth Preparation classes.
• Citizens for Midwifery: a national consumer-based group promoting the Midwives Model of Care and providing midwifery information and resources.
• Dawn of Life Birth Services: offering birth and postpartum doula services as well as Birthing From Within Extra-ordinary Childbirth Preparation Classes.
• 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.
• Experience Birth! Natural Childbirth Classes cover what you need to know for a drug-free natural birth at home, hospital, or birth center.
• 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 Directory: A web-based directory of online resources for pregnancy, including forums and articles. Canadian and American resources.
• Symptoms of Pregnancy: A comprehensive guide to your symptoms.
• VBAC for Doulas Information.
• VBAC for Moms Information.

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.

Doulas

• Ann Arbor Doulas: offering birth doula services as well as private, individualized childbirth education sessions.
• Artemesia: offering birth doula services and herbal products.
• Babymoon Doulas: postpartum doula services.
• Birth’s Journey Doula Services: birth doula services.
• Cradle of Birth: birth doula services.
• Jodi Graves Roberts: birth and postpartum doula services.

Find a Midwife

• 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.
• Greenhouse Birth Center: a freestanding, independent birthing center in Okemos, MI.
• Providence Nurse Midwives: providing health care to women across the lifespan and attending births at the Alternative Birthing Center at Providence Hospital in Southfield as well as the New Life Center.
• Trillium Birth Services: homebirth and doula services, pre-conception counseling, fertility services.
• Woven In Love Maternity Services: providing experienced, individual-based prenatal and postpartum care, including waterbirth, land birth and home VBACS, and specializing in postpartum, newborn care and breastfeeding concerns; located in Macomb, Oakland, Lapeer and St. Clair counties.

For Parents

• Hearth in the Hills: offering childcare and parent support groups.
• The Whole Baby: offering an array of services to support parents and professionals, including doula services, parent guidance, infant massage, play groups, professional training, supervision and consultation.
• 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.
• Mothering Naturally: offers information on midwives and homebirth.

Midwifery Education

• American College of Nurse-Midwives: news and information along with a national directory of midwives.
• Creative Health and Birthing Arts: a Michigan home-based business offering homebirth midwifery services, massage therapy and herbal consults, as well as an array of classes for aspiring midwives and others interested in natural health care.
• 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).
• Nurse-Midwifery Program at the University of Michigan: news and information for prospective nurse-midwives.

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

• Advanced Yoga Therapy Certification and Service.
• Ann Arbor Y: offers prenatal yoga and water aerobics.
• The Center for Women’s Fitness: helping women maintain healthy bodies through every stage of life, including childbearing, perimenopause, and menopause; located in Ann Arbor.
• Inward Bound Yoga: an Ann Arbor yoga studio offering a variety of classes and workshops including prenatal and postnatal yoga.
• Meditation Teacher Training and Services.
• Stroller Strides: Ann Arbor/Canton area exercise classes for new mothers and their babies.
• Yoga Focus: an Ann Arbor yoga studio teaching yoga in the tradition of Mr. B.K.S. Iyengar, including prenatal yoga classes.

Products

• Down to Earth Home: Provider of natural and organic products for the home, including infant bedding and crib mattresses.
• Middle Earth Diaper: providing cloth diapers and other natural products for families.

Resources

• AnnArborHolistic.com: Online resource guide of practitioners of the healing arts, developed by Crazy Wisdom Bookstore & Tea Room in downtown Ann Arbor.
• BodyMindSpiritGuide: Michigan’s source for expanding health, wisdom and joy.

Sources for Books and Teaching Aids

• Cascade HealthCare Products: a medical supply company serving the midwifery community.
• Childbirth Graphics: providing childbirth education materials to childbirth educators, lactation consultants, and other healthcare providers.
• DONA International: the “Publications & Resources” section of their website offers a wide variety of educational materials.
• International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA): offers a variety of educational programs and materials.
• La Leche League International: offers a variety of educational materials, conferences and workshops.
• The Perinatal Education Associates: Web page providing articles and an online store for pregnancy and birth-related items.

Support Groups

• Postpartum Depression Support Group: Free to women experiencing prenatal or postpartum depression. Partners, family members, friends, and babies/children welcome.

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.

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