Links
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Associations Our Practitioners
Belong To
Breast Feeding
Baby Wearing - Slings Wraps &
other Devices
Beauty
Childrens Toys, Projects
& Lovely Things
Diet
Emotional & Mental Health
Exercise & Relaxation Classes
Green Living
Infertility
Magazines
Mens Health (see also fathering)
Multiple Birth
Nappy Needs
Natural Parenting (fathering)
Post Natal Mental Health
Preconception Care
Pregnancy & Birth
• Birth Attendants
• Birth Preperation
• General International
Pregnancy & Birth
• Links & Resources
• Midwifes in Private Practice
• Pregnancy
• Resources, Networks & Forums
• VBAC
(Vaginal Birth After Ceasarean)
Research
Single Parenting
Vaccination
Womens Health
Associations Our Practitioners Belong To
Australian Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine Association - www.acupuncture.org.au
Australian Association of Massage Therapists - www.aamt.com.au
Australian Natural Therapists Association - www.anta.com.au
Australian Osteopathic Association - www.osteopathic.com.au
Australian Traditional Medicine Society - www.atms.com.au
Chinese Medicine Registration Board - www.cmrb.vic.gov.au
DONA International Doula Association - www.dona.org
The Fertility Society of Australia - www.fertilitysociety.com.au/
National Herbalists Association Australia - www.nhaa.org.au
Breast Feeding
Australian Breast Feeding Association - www.breastfeeding.asn.au
Australian Lactation Consultants Association - www.alca.asn.au
Breastfeeding.com - www.breastfeeding.com
La Leche League - www.lalecheleague.org
Mothering your nursing toddler - www.myntoddler.com
Network of Australian Lactation Colleges - www.lactation.org.au
Pro Mom 101 reasons to breast feed your child - www.promom.org
Baby Wearing - Slings Wraps & Other Devices
Baby wearing options - www.carryingaway.net
Hug-a-bub - www.hugabub.com
The lana baby sling - www.babaroo.com
Beauty
Slinky Pinkies Home Visit Service - www.slinkypinkies.com.au
Children’s Toys - Projects & Lovely Things
Australian Sites
AK Traditions - www.aktraditions.com
Buxton Baby - www.buxtonbaby.com
The Fairy Ring - www.fairyring.com.au
Good Ol’ Toys - www.goodoltoys.com.au
Morning Star Crafts - www.morningstarcrafts.com.au
Reflective Rhythms - www.reflectiverhythms.com.au
Sam’s Handcrafts - www.samscrafts.com.au
Sarah’s Dolls - www.sarahs-dolls.com
Spiral Garden - www.spiralgarden.com.au
Sunshine Markets - www.sunshinemarkets.com.au
The Friendship Tree - http://www.thefriendshiptree.com.au/
Toy Libraries Victoria - www.toylibraries.org.au
International Sites
Nancy Blakey.com - www.nancyblakey.com
Toys for Life - www.nienhuis.com
Diet
Glycemic Index Diet - www.glycemicindex.com
Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia - www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Lunch Matters - lunchmatters.blogspot.com
Laptop Lunches - www.laptoplunches.com
Lucy Burney Children's Diets - www.lucyburney.co.uk
Taste.com.au: www.taste.com.au
Vegan Lunch Box Blog - veganlunchbox.blogspot.com
Emotional & Mental Health
Black Dog Institute - Depression and Bipolar Disorder - www.blackdoginstitute.org.au
Child and Youth Health Services - www.cyh.com.au
DepNet - www.depnet.com.au
Depression Net - www.depressionservices.org.au
Erika Munton (NLP Practitoner- www.birthworks.info
Just-A-Minute Meditation - www.just-a-minute.org
Maya Abdominal Therapy - www.mamoz.com.au
Overeaters Anonymous - www.oaregion10.org
Reach Out - www.reachout.com.au
Relationships Australia - www.relationships.com.au
The Work of Byron Katie - www.thework.com
Tricia Ong: Creative Arts Therapist - www.innovativesupportforwomen.wordpress.com
Exercise & Relaxation Classes
Be Yoga: Northcote - www.beyoga.net.au/index.htm
Clifton Hill Iyengar Yoga Classes - www.iyoga.com.au
DK Yoga Centre: Brighton East - www.dkyogacentre.com
Feminine Spirit: Yoga For Fertility - http://www.femininespirit.com.au/
Find Yoga - Australia-wide yoga directory - www.findyoga.com.au
Fitwise Physiotherapy – www.fitwise.com.au
Hawthorn Yoga - www.hawthornyoga.com
Just-A-Minute Meditation - www.just-a-minute.org
Mamashanti Yoga For Birth: Birth Support - www.mamashanti.com.au
Yoga Path: Newport - www.yoga-path.com.au
Green Living
Ceres centre for education and research in environmental strategies - www.ceres.org.au
Eco Shop - www.ecoshop.com.au
Green Canary Shop - www.greencanary.com
Green Harvest Organic Gardening Supplies - www.greenharvest.com.au
Green Line Organic Home Delivery - www.greenlinedelivery.com.au
The Gaia Exchange - www.gaia-exchange.sunmaia.net
Wellness Water - www.wellnessaffiliate.com
Infertility
Andrology Australia: information on male reproductive health www.andrologyaustralia.org
Australia’s National Infertility Network - www.access.org.au
City Fertility Centre - www.cityfertility.com.au
Dr Marilyn Glenville: Natural Solutions to Infertility: www.marilynglenville.com
Infertility Treatment Authority established by the Victorian Parliament for regulation of infertility research and services - www.ita.org.au
Maya Abdominal Therapy - www.mamoz.com.au
Melbourne IVF - www.mivf.com.au
Monash IVF - www.monashivf.com
The Fertility Society of Australia - www.fsa.au.com
The Melbourne Assisted Conception Centre - www.assistedconception.com.au
One At a Time - www.oneatatime.org.uk
Magazines
Byron Child - www.byronchild.com
Mothering Magazine - www.mothering.com
Natural Parenting Magazine - www.naturalparenting.com.au
Mens Health (see also Fathering)
Andrology Australia: information on male reproductive health - www.andrologyaustralia.org.au
Maya Abdominal Therapy - www.mamoz.com.au
Mens Health and Wellbeing - www.menshealthandwellbeing.org.au
Mens Line - www.menslineaus.org.au
Multiple Birth
The Australian Multiple Birth Association - www.amba.org.au
Nappy Needs
Eenee Eco Napies - www.eenee.com
My Planet Recycling - www.myplanet.com.au
Natures Child Nappy tips & folds - www.natureschild.com.au
Natural Parenting
Alternative Baby - www.alternativebaby.net
Child and Youth Health Services - www.cyh.com.aut
Dr. Sarah J. Buckley - www.sarahjbuckley.com
Infant Massage Australia - www.infantmassage.org.au
Maternal Child Health Line - www.education.vic.gov.au
Natural Parenting Melbourne - www.naturalparentingmelbourne.com.au
Natures Child - www.natureschild.com.au
Online guide to Pregnancy and Birth - www.natural-birth.com.au
Pinky McKay - www.pinky-mychild.com
Pregnancy Birth and Beyond - www.pregnancy.com.au
The Aware Parenting Institute - www.awareparenting.com
The Natural Child Project - www.naturalchild.org
Fatherhood Foundation - www.fathersonline.org
Fathers.com - www.fathers.com
The National Information Centre on fatherhood - www.fathersdirect.com
Post Natal Mental Health
Post and Antenatal Depression Association - www.panda.org.au
The Beyondblue National Postnatal Depression Program - www.beyondblue.org.au
Preconception Care
Dr Jonas Method - www.drjonasmethod.com
www.fertility.com.au - www.fertility.com.au
Foresight Association – www.foresight-preconception.org.uk
Maya Abdominal Therapy - www.mamoz.com.au
Prospective Lesbian Parents - www.home.vicnet.net.au
Pregnancy & Birth
Resources, Networks and Forums
Belly Belly - www.bellybelly.com.au
Bub Hub - www.bubhub.com.au
Essential Baby - www.essentialbaby.com.au
Joyous Birth - Australian Home Birth Network - www.joyousbirth.info
Sea Bands – morning sickness remedy - www.morningsicknesshelp.com
Birth Confidence - Ingrid Holmes & Annie Fogarty - www.birthconfidence.com.au
Birth Ready (active birthing) - www.birthready.com.au
Choices for Childbirth - www.maternitycoalition.org.au
Deep Thoughts Hypnotherapy - www.deepthoughtshypnotherapy.com.au
Di Diddle - www.birtheducation.com.au
Home Birth Australia - www.homebirthaustralia.org
Lael Stone and Jules Brooks - www.aboutbirth.com.au
Lena Clerke - www.wonderfulbirth.com
The Pink Kit: www.birthingbetter.com
Pregnancy Birth and Beyond - www.pregnancy.com.au
Rhea Dempsey Birthing Wisdom - www.birthingwisdom.com.au
Vaginal Birth After Caesarean - www.birthworks.info
Di Diddle - www.birtheducation.com.au
Doula and Birth Attendant Directory Australia - www.douladirectory.joyousbirth.info
Doulas Australia - www.australiandoulas.com.au
Doulas of North America - www.dona.org
Home Birth Midwife – Sharon Licqurish - www.midwife.net.au
Ingrid Holmes & Annie Fogarty - www.birthconfidence.com.au
Melbourne Birth Attendants group - www.birthattendants.info
Rhea Dempsey Birthing Wisdom - www.birthingwisdom.com.au
Source of Support - www.sourceofsupport.com.au/
Australian college of midwives – www.midwives.org.au
Home Birth Midwife – Sharon Licqurish - www.midwife.net.au
International College of Spiritual Midwifery - www.womenofspirit.asn.au
Jan Ireland – Tel 0417 379 175 email jireland@bigpond.net.au
Joy Johnson - www.aitex.com.au
Maternity Coalition - www.maternitycoalition.org.au
Midwives Naturally: Jennie Teskey, Nicola Dutton, Clare Lane, Helen Brown - www.midwivesnaturally.com.au
Robyn Thompson - www.melbmidwifery.com.au
VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Caesarean)
Birth Rites – Healing after Caesarian - www.birthrites.org
Caesarean Awareness Recovery Education Support - www.cares-sa.org.au
VBAC.com - www.vbac.com
General International Pregnancy and Birth Links and Resources
Birth in 100 pictures - www.nandu.hu/english/childbirth/csenge100/csbirth01.htm
Birth Story Diaries - real, unedited information about pregnancy and birth - www.birthdiaries.com
Birthways.net American Home Birth Site - www.birthways.net
Childbirth Connection - www.childbirthconnection.org
Creative Birth and Birth Choices - www.withwoman.co.uk
Cord Clamping - www.cordclamp.com
Easier birth through foetal positioning - www.spinningbabies.com
Henci Goer - an expert on evidence-based maternity care - www.hencigoer.com
Ina May Gaskin - www.inamay.com
International Caesarean Awareness Network - http://www.ican-online.org/
Janet Balaskas - active birth - www.activebirthcentre.com
Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth- www.normalbirth.lamaze.org
Penny Simkin Child Birth Educator - www.pennysimkin.com
Sterile Water Injections for Pain Relief in labour - www.radmid.demon.co.uk
Water Birth Website - www.waterbirthinfo.com
Water birth International - http://www.waterbirth.org
Research
A guide to the Cochrane Library - research which looks at the effectiveness of different health care treatments and interventions - www.nicsl.com.au
Fertility and Sterility &ndas Journal of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine www.asrm.org
Foresight Association – www.foresight-preconception.org.uk
Pubmed database of medical research - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The General Medical Journal Website - www.bmj.bmjjournals.com
The Journal of the American Medical Association - www.jama.ama-assn.org
The Lancet - www.thelancet.com
The Medical Journal of Australia - www.mja.com.au
The New England Journal of Medicine - www.content.nejm.org
The US National Library of Medicine - www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Single Parenting (see also Natural Parenting; Fathering)
Parent Link – Parenting on your own - www.parentlink.act.gov.au
Parents Without Partners Victoria - www.pwpvic.com
Single Parenting - www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au
Single Parent Family Association - www.users.bigpond.com
The Council of Single Mothers and their Children - www.csmc.org.au
The Lone Fathers Association of Australia - www.lonefathers.com.au
Vaccination
A flyer on Homoeopathic immunisation or prophylaxis - www.h-e-c.com.au
Global Vaccine Institute - www.thinktwice.com
Raising a Vaccine Free Child - www.vaccinefreechild.com
The Australian Childhood Immunisation register - www1.hic.gov.au
The Australia Vaccination Network - www.avn.org.au
The Immunisation Awareness Society - www.ias.org.nz
The Immunise Australia Program - www.immunise.health.gov.au
The Vaccination Debate - www.vaccinationdebate.com
The Victorian Government Health Information - www.health.vic.gov.au
Women’s Health
Continence Foundation of Australia - www.continence.org.au
Dr Marilyn Glenville: Women’s General Health Problems: www.marilynglenville.com
Endometriosis.org - www.endometriosis.org
Maya Abdominal Therapy - www.mamoz.com.au
Prospective Lesbian Parents - www.home.vicnet.net.au
The Jean Hailes Foundation - www.jeanhailes.org.au
The Museum of Menstruation and Women’s Health - www.mum.org
The Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome Association of Australia - www.posaa.asn.au
The Royal Woman’s Hospital Well Women’s Website - www.rwh.org.au
Wire – Women’s Information and Referral Exchange - www.wire.org.au
Women’s Health Victoria - www.whv.org.au