BIRTH
Apps
There’s an app for that…literally, there’s an app for everything. Here’s a few to consider trying:
Frey: The Positive Birth Company App- this is going to appeal to you are a meditative person and like British accents. Apple.
Childbirth Education
Penny Simkin is amazing for anyone, has also focused on women with a history of trauma in her later years
Sharon Muza is a Seattle-based Lamaze Certified Childbirth Educator who offers a variety of online classes
Birth Boot Camp offers online childbirth classes
Island Hospital offers 2 day and 6 week childbirth classes (not during a pandemic). Teri Shilling, the childbirth educator and lactation consultant is offering online express classes at this time.
Want to sit at home and watch a fantastic, free, 584-part (sarcasm) childbirth education series? Try YouTube: Faith’s Childbirth Education Hospital Class. User Wagonbird. The class is filmed at a hospital in Colorado.
Doulas
If you’re interested and you can afford one, please consider hiring one. In a perfect world, they would be included in insurance coverage because they truly improve outcomes! While I’ve worked with dozens of doulas, I have minimal experience with local doulas and will not recommend anyone in particular. Here’s a few options:
Lori Mortimer @ Labor with Love
Anita Ortega (now out of Arlington, but continuing to serve our area)
Sarah Costas-Lo @ Odyssey Birth
Erica Coulter @ Badass Birthing
North Cascade Doulas- doula collective
Multiple birth topics
https://evidencebasedbirth.com/blog/
Perineal tearing
Physiologic Birth
What is physiologic birth?
ACOG (the governing organization for Obstetricians) recommends less intervention for birth: ACOG Approaches to Limit Intervention During Labor and Birth
Vitamin K
Vitamin K is an injection strongly recommended for your newborn. Evidence Based Birth has a great information page on this topic. Please read it of you have concerns about Vitamin K!