Acupuncture/Chinese Medicine for pregnancy and labor preparation

• Kindreth Hamilton (413) 535-9930, www.myintegritywomenshealth.com
• Courtney Hill Wulsin, www.windowofheavenacupuncture.com
• Amy Mager 413.222.8616. www.MagerHealing.com
  
• Kate Cadwgan - 413-727-3220 www.radiantpointacupuncture.com
• Verena Johanna Smith - www.giftofhealth.com

Ayurvedic Practitioners

• Christine Eck, www.redspringayurveda.com

Bereavement Support

• Empty Arms: www.emptyarmsbereavement.org (Supporting families during miscarriage, stillbirth and infant loss in and around Western MA)
• Amy Wright Glenn/Birth, Breath and Death: Book, Online and Live Trainings, Local Support for Florida residents: www.birthbreathanddeath.com
• Grief Support Network:(local support for residents in and around Bolder CO) www.griefsupportnet.org

Birthing Mama® Prenatal and Postnatal Yoga Classes

• Prenatal, Postnatal, Private Sessions and Coaching (for fertility & conception, pregnancy/birth/postpartum, loss & grief support, birth story processing and an ONLINE Program. (Check websites for full class schedule and services in Amherst):  www.birthingmama.org, www.yogacenteramherst.com, https://www.facebook.com/supportingbirthingmamas
• Pregnancy Yoga Therapy and Arden Pierce: 413-585-8990 www.yogaforwellbeing.com (Highly recommended for those in Northampton, MA)

Breastfeeding Support/Lactation Consultant

• CDH -Kate Sacco, Questions & Classes on breastfeeding: 413-582-2096
  
• Megan at Dancing Hands, 28 High Street Greenfield 413-772-0078. (Cranial Sacral Therapist, helpful in conjunction with babies with poor latch and tongue ties)
  
• Pioneer Valley Breastfeeding Coalition - http://www.valleybreastfeeding.org/home/breastfeeding-help.html
  
• Vital Milk –Dawn Kennedy, www.vitalmilk.com (breastfeeding support and breast pumps)

Chiropractors

• Dr Brenna Werme, www.embodiedchiropractic.com  

Disability Support - Cerebral Palsy

For support and taking action with a cerebral palsy lawsuit 
cerebral palsy lawsuit

Doulas – Labor support

• Green River Doula Network listing, www.greenriverdoulas.org
  
• Michele L’Esperance, www.warmwelcomebirth.com
• Helen Korczak, celestialrootsdoulacare.com, birth and postpartum support, lactation supportcelestialrootsdoulacare@gmail.com phone: 413.777.8753 ~  facebook: https://www.facebook.com/CelestialRootsDoulaCare/
  
  Herbalists

• Brittany Wood Nickerson – Thyme Herbal, 549-1415, brittany@thymeherbal.com
  
• Kristen Avonti – Tree of Dreams Sanctuary, www.windyroots.com, kavonti@yahoo.com (herbal consults, pre-conception planning, energy healing, birth trauma healing, workshops and educational services)
  
• Jade Alicandro Mace – Milk & Honey Herbs, www.ripplemeadfarm.com and milkandhoneyherbs@gmail.com (herbal consultations and locally-grown herbal products for pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond)

Homebirth Midwives

• River Valley Midwives: 413-256-6166, www.rivervalleymidwives.com
  
• Sacred Birth Midwifery: 413-238-5595, www.sacredbirthmidwifery.com (birth tub rentals available)
  
• Michelle L’Esperance: 413-586-3648, www.warmwelcomebirthservices.com
  

Infant Developmental Movement Therapy

Non-drug therapies for inconsolable babies, for successful nursing with adequate weight gain, sleeping without intense crying, digestion, colic, reflux, low (floppy) and high tone (stiff, tightness, arching back), cranial sacral adjustment, post-surgery and more.

• Lenore Grubinger RMT, IDME 584-5193 www.wellbabywellfamily.com
  
• Alisa Wright Tanny: 413-695-6950. alias@embodimentstudio.com. 

Menstruation

Eco Femme - Cloth pads, menstrual education and empowerment for girls and women  https://ecofemme.org

Naturopathic Doctor

Photography

• Sarah Prall, www.sarahprall.com (Pregnancy, Postpartum/Baby, Family Photography and fine art prints)

Parent and Baby Groups, Support Groups

• MotherWoman, www.motherwoman.org, info@motherwoman.org (413) 387-0703 

Prenatal & Postnatal Massage

• Joyce Braunhut LMT, BCST, 413-320-6849 (Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy, Therapeutic, Maternity)
  
• Chaya Leia Aronson, Mayan Abdominal Massage, www.purpleroseabdominalmassage.com
  
• Bernadette Della Bitta Nicholson

Placenta Encapsulation

• Kristen Avonti, www.sacred-earth-wisdom.com/placentamedicine.html

Valuable Websites and Listservs

• Baby Mapping & Baby Turning, www.spinningbabies.com
  
• International Cesarean Awareness Network of Western Mass www.ican-online.org (Information on ways to lower the chances of having a cesarean, support for cesarean recovery, VBAC, and information on planning for a necessary cesarean/CBAC.) 

Recommended Books

• Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful: Experience the Natural Power of Pregnancy and Birth with Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, by Gurmukh Kaur Khalsa
  
• Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, by Ina May Gaskin
  
• Spiritual Midwifery, by Ina May Gaskin
  
• Baby Catcher, Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, by Peggy Vincent
  
• Birthing from Within, by Pam England
  
• Sacred Birthing ~ Birthing A New Humanity, by Sunni Karll
  
• The Sacred Nature Of Birth: Natural Wisdom For Conscious Birthing, byKara Maria Ananda
  
• Labyrinth of Birth, by Pam England
  
• The Birth Book, by William and Martha Sears
  
• Our Bodies, Ourselves Pregnancy and Birth, by The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
  
• The Complete Book of Pregnancy & Childbirth, by Shelia Kitzinger
  
• Inner Beauty, Inner Light ~ Yoga for Pregnant Women, by Frederick Leboye
  
• Gentle Birth Choices, by Barbara Harper
  
• Thinking Women’s Guide to Better Birthing, by Henci Goer
  
• Active Birth, by Janet Balaskas
  
• The Natural Pregnancy Book, by Aviva Jill Romm
  
• Birth, The Surprising History of How We Are Born, by Tina Cassidy
  
• Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year, by Susan Weed
  
• HynoBirthing ~ The Mongan Method, by Marie F Mongan
  
• The Good Mother Myth: Redefining Motherhood to Fit Reality, Edited by Avital Norman Nathman, Foreward by Christy Turlington Burns
  
• Misadventures of a Parenting Yogi: Cloth Diapers, Cosleeping, and My (Sometimes Successful) Quest for Conscious Parenting, by Brian Leaf
  
• Birth, Breath and Death, by Amy Wright Glenn
  
• Immaculate Deception ll: Myth, Magic and Birth, by Suzanne Arms
  
• Enligtened Pregnancy: Connecting you’re your Baby Spiritually, by Luisa Margarian 

Recommended Movies

• Birth Into Being, Eleni Tonetti
  
• Organic Birth (revised new version of Orgasmic Birth)
  
• Birth Day (a short, beautiful waterbirth at home in Mexico)
  
• It's My Body, My Baby, My Birth (one of the very few birth movies that includes queer families)
  
• The Big Stretch
  
• Special Women (shows what a doula does)
  
• Laboring Under an Illusion by Vicki Niquette Elson
  
• Business of Being Born and More About the Business of Being Born, Ricki Lake