Links

Organisations

• Doctoral Midwifery Sociery

• NCT Pregnancy and Babycare

• BirthChoiceUK

• La Leche League

• The Big Push for Midwives Campaign

• The Lamaze Institute for Normal Birth

• Association for Improvements in the Maternity Services website

• UNICEF UK Baby friendly Initiative

• Fatherhood Institute

• Disability, Pregnancy and Parenthood international (DPPi)
   

Resources

• Pregnancy, birth and early parenthood: a guide for physically disabled parents 

• Making normal birth a reality Consensus statement from the Maternity Care Working Party - our shared views about the need to recognise, facilitate and audit normal birth Normal Birth Consensus Statement - November 2007
• Help yourself to a straightforward birth by Jilly Rosser (first published in NCT's New Generation, 2002)
• Care in normal birth: A practical guide Report of a technical working group - WHO
• The All Wales Clinical Pathway for Normal Labour: What are the Experiences of Midwives, Doctors, Managers and Mothers?
• Midwife-led versus other models of care for childbearing women, 2008
• Vaginal birth after a caesarean - NCT
• Labour and birth in water:how and why you might use water   - NCT
• Positions for labour from Babycentre

Websites:

• Bump to Baby

• Hypnotherapy Directory