PRENATAL EXERCISE PROGRAMS
8 Limbs Yoga
– Capitol Hill, Wedgewood, and West Seattle
Vitality
Pilates & Fitness Studio – Mt. Baker
Seattle
Holistic Center – Greenlake
Lotus Yoga – Seward Park
& Columbia City
Sound Yoga –
West Seattle
The Yoga Barn -
Issaquah
Santasha Yoga
– Madison Valley
PRENATAL MASSAGE PROVIDERS
Stephanie Levine
-206-721-5042 - Seward Park
Queen Anne Chiropractic Center –
Queen Anne
POSTPARTUM DOULAS
NAPS (Northwest Association for Postpartum Support)
206-955-6155
DONA (Doulas of North
America)
BREASTFEEDING SUPPORT
Carrie Kenner, lactation specialist - 206-725-7758
Great Starts Breastfeeding Support - 206-615-8078
La Leche League
Healthy Mothers,
Healthy Babies
Breast Friends
Resource book
Lactation Consultants – look in the Yellow Pages
POSTPARTUM & PARENTING SUPPORT
First Weeks, drop-in support group for new parents at
the Community Birth & Family Center
Northwest Attachment
Parenting
PEPS (Program
for Early Parent Support)
Beyond the Baby Blues, a program designed to provide information,
education, support and clinical intervention for women and their families
who experience emotional difficulties during their pregnancy and the
postpartum period.
Listening Mothers, a small group program for new mothers and their
babies (up to one year old) that identifies and explores the emotional
needs, concerns, frustrations and joys of motherhood in a safe and intimate
environment
Postpartum Support
International - Information and support for postpartum mood disorders
MY FAVORITE WEBSITES
www.gentlebirth.org - Go to the
'Midwives Archives' for excellent information on pregnancy, birth,
breastfeeding, postpartum, and parenting issues.
www.birthpsychology.com - Home
page for the Association for Pre- and Perinatal Psychology and Health.
I am a member of this wonderful organization!
www.birthlove.com - A 'living
pregnancy, childbirth and parenting resource'.
An excellent source for
research articles is the Cochrane Collaboration. The Cochrane Collaboration
is an international non-profit and independent organization, dedicated to
making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of healthcare
readily available worldwide. It produces and disseminates systematic reviews
of healthcare interventions and promotes the search for evidence in the form
of clinical trials and other studies of interventions. You can search their
childbirth and pregnancy reviews at:
http://www.cochrane.org/cochrane/revabstr/PREGAbstractIndex.htm
