Resources

Doulas: A doula provides non-medical support to a woman giving birth, and/or to the woman and family after the birth.

Dr. Claudia Gold's blog "speaks to parents, professionals who work with children, and policy makers. I aim to show how contemporary developmental science points us on a path to effective prevention, intervention, and treatment, with the aim of promoting healthy development and wellbeing of all children and families."

BirthWorks promotes safe and loving birth experiences through education, introspection and confident action. Birthworks offers classes for pregnant women and training for doulas and childbirth educators.

Promoting an evidence-based, wellness model of maternity care that will improve birth outcomes and substantially reduce costs. 

A listing of parent support groups.

A selection of expert advice about parent-child time together.

The Natural Child Project says:  Our vision is a world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding, and compassion.
In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust.

Research on co-sleeping.

Parenting Counts, a product of the Talaris Institute, offers parents research-based information about child development.

HUG Your Baby's mission: Based on child development, lactation and pediatric literature, HUG Your Baby’s trainings and resources help parents (and the professionals who care for them) understand a baby’s body language in order to prevent and solve problems around eating, sleeping, crying, and parent-child interaction and bonding.

See our information page (with citations) about children's needs for intimate, nurturing relationships and time together with their parents. 

CAPPA (Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association) offers "comprehensive, evidence-based education, certification, professional membership and training to childbirth educators, lactation educators, labor doulas, antepartum doulas and postpartum doulas worldwide." Parents can search for local providers in their online directory.