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
Evidence Based Birth Childbirth Classes are offered virtually in longer and accelerated formats
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.
Miranda teaches a four hour Weekend Childbirth Education Class once every 2 months for The Holding Space
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)
Erica Coulter @ Badass Birthing
North Cascade Doulas- doula collective
Multiple birth topics
Evidence Based Birth offers videos, blogs, podcasts, articles and one-page handouts on a variety of birth related topics. They do a great job of compiling all of the evidence.
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!