Links

DONA International is an international association of doulas who are trained to provide the highest quality emotional, physical and educational support to women and their families during childbirth and postpartum.

CAPPA- Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association is a non-profit international organization that was founded in 1998 to offer the highest level of professional membership and training to childbirth educators, lactation educators, labor doulas, antepartum doulas and postpartum doulas.

ICEA - International Childbirth Education Association is an organization of over 4,000 members from throughout the United States and 42 countries who believe in freedom of choice based on knowledge of alternatives in family-centered maternity and newborn care.

ALACE - Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators believes in supporting women's choices in childbirth through knowledgeable childbirth educators and labor assistants/birth doulas who can do a great deal to provide pregnant women with information and practical alternatives so that they may give birth with confidence, strength and joy.

The International Cesarean Awareness Network, Inc. (ICAN) is a nonprofit organization founded by Esther Booth Zorn in 1982. ICAN's mission is to improve maternal-child health by preventing unnecessary cesareans through education, providing support for cesarean recovery, and promoting Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC).

VBAC.com - A woman-centered, evidence based, resource. This website provides childbearing women and maternity care professionals access to research-based information, resources, continuing education and support for VBAC* (vaginal birth after cesarean).

The Kempe Center - Postpartum depression intervention program.

A Mother's Wings - A Mother's Wings mission is to educate the local community on postpartum mood disorders and to provide information and support to those affected so that women and their loved ones may seek available services. WE ahve developed a list of resources available for women and their families. A Mother's Wings also holds a weekly mom-to-mom support group led by moms who have had postpartum depression. Email A Mother's Wings.