Resources and Learning
Nearly all available conception, pregnancy, birth, and parenting resources use language that presumes the gender of the birth person and often the presumed partner. Most resources assume a two-parent couple-based family structure. Due to lack of other options, this applies to all nearly all the resources we have included below. While we find their content useful, read them for what is useful to you and your gender, family structure, and body. If you have resources you love that you don’t see below, please send them our way.
COVID-19 Resources
Vermont Department of Health COVID-19 Guidelines
Aviva Romm’s COVID-19 Resources
Positive for COVID-19 during pregnancy FAQ — hospital based
Stephen Buhner COVID-19 Herbal Protocol
Covid Vaccine in Pregancy
CDC
Pandemic Pregnancy Guide
UK Recommendations
Evidence Based Birth
Covid and Preeclampsia
Emily Oster
National Geographic
Stephen Buhner's COVID-19 Herbal Protocol During Pregnancy
CONCEPTION AND FERTILITY
Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler
The Fifth Vital Sign by Lisa Hendrickson-Jack
The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conceptions, Pregnancy, & Birth by Stephanie Brill
Choosing Between and Known and Unknown Sperm Donor
Fertility Options for Transgender Persons
Rainbow Health Ontario Fact Sheet: Reproductive Options for Trans People
Maia Midwifery
BIRTH AND PREGNANCY
Evidence-Based Birth
Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation by Pam England and Rob Horowitz
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor’s Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices by Sarah Buckley
Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn by Penny Simkin, Janet Whalley, Ann Keppler, Janelle Durham and April Bolding
The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin
The Natural Pregnancy Book by Aviva Romm MD
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth by Henci Goer
When Survivors Give Birth by Penny Simkin and Phyllis Klaus
Real Food For Pregnancy by Lily Nichols
Real Food For Gestational Diabetes by Lily-Nichols
Childbirth Connection
The Little Known (But Crucial) Difference Between Folate and Folic Acid
It Starts With The Egg
Spinning Babies
Aviva Romm’s Article on Prenatal Vitamins
What is GBS and what do I need to know about it?
Vermont Birth Network
Birth in the Squatting Position
Peaceful Home Birth
The Business of Being Born
This is Birth with Lisa Ling
Why Not Home?
Postpartum and lactation
The First Fourty Days; The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother by Heng Ou
Breast/chest/nursing Crawl by Newborn Baby
Birth Day
Defining Your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery by Diana West, BA, IBCLC
Dr. Jack Newman’s Guide to Breastfeeding by Dr. Jack Newman and Teresa Pitman
The Nursing Mother’s Companion by Kathleen Huggins
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding published by the La Leche League International
Attaching Your Baby at the Breast by the Global Health Media Project
Birthing and Breast or Chestfeeding Trans People and Allies (Facebook group)
Breastfeeding Outside the Box podcast - many episodes on induced lactation and/or relactation
Kellymom
Milk Junkies - Breastfeeding and Parenting from a Transgender Perspective
Yes, Trans Women Can Breastfeed - Here’s How
Free Newborn Feeding Course from HiveCE
La Leche League
Lactation as Birth Control: Planned Parenthood - Centers for Disease Control
Secrets of Breastfeeding, NPR
NEWBORN CARE
Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn by Penny Simkin, Janet Whalley, Ann Keppler, Janelle Durham and April Bolding
The Baby Book by William Sears, MD
Your Amazing Newborn by Phyllis and Marshall Klaus
VBAC AND CESAREAN BIRTH
Cesarean Birth After Cesarean
International Cesarean Awareness Network
The VBAC Education Project
The Well-Rounded Mama - Cesarean information, resources, scientific studies, and experience from a fat-positive, health at any size approach
HOMEBIRTH SAFETY
Outcomes of planned home births with certified professional midwives: large prospective study in North America - The British Medical Journal
Midwife-led continuity models versus other models of care for childbearing women - Cochrane Library
Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician - Canadian Medical Association Journal
MEDICATION USE DURING PREGNANCY AND NURSING
InfantRisk Center
Lactmed
MotherToBaby
CANNABIS + other drugs IN PREGNANCY AND LACTATION
MENTAL HEALTH
Postpartum Progress
Postpartum Support International - Postpartum Depression Stressline - 1-800-944-4773. 9am - 9pm. Leave a message – calls returned within 24 hours.
National Perinatal Hotline - Postpartum Moms’ Line - 1-800-773-6667. 24 hrs/day, seven days a week. English and Spanish.
POSTPARTUM SEXUALITY
Postpartumsex.com
Voices Series: Stories of Sex in Pregnancy and Postpartum
Books for adults and kids
Hello Baby
What Baby Needs
You Were The First
Hello in There
Nine Months: Before a Baby is Born
Revolutionary Mothering
SEX: The All you need to know progressive guide
QUEER (LGBTQ+) PREGNANCY AND PARENTING
The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conceptions, Pregnancy, & Birth by Stephanie Brill
Pregnant Butch: Nine Long Months Spent in Drag by A.K. Summers
What Makes a Baby by Cory Silverberg
Where’s the Mother? Stories from a Transgender Dad by Trevor MacDonald
A Womb of Their Own (film)
Birthing and Breast or Chestfeeding Trans People and Allies (Facebook)
Choosing Between a Known and an Unknown Sperm Donor
Fertility Options for Transgender Persons
LGBTQ Family Building
Masculine Birth Ritual (podcast)
Milk Junkies - Breastfeeding and Parenting from a Transgender Perspective
My Mama Wears Timbs
Rainbow Health Ontario Fact Sheet: Reproductive Options for Trans People
Raising My Baby Gender Neutral: Max & River
Trans Family Building
Trans Couple Pause Transition to Become Parents
Yes, Trans Women Can Breastfeed - Here’s How
SPERM BANKS
Fairfax Cryobank
Midwest Sperm Bank
The Sperm Bank of California
Seattle Sperm Bank
Reproductive Loss
LGBTQ+ Reproductive Loss
RTZ Hope
LEGAL (DONOR AGREEMENTS, GESTATIONAL SURROGATES, RECIPROCAL IVF, ADOPTION, SECOND PARENT ADOPTION)
Emily Doskow (Oakland, CA)
Kauffman Law and Mediation (Boston, MA)
Creative Family Connections
Kurt Hughes (Burlington, VT)
A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples by Emily Doskow and Frederick Hertz
ReproductiVe JUSTICE
Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy and Childbirth edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte
Birth for Every Body
Birth Justice Fund
Birthing Beyond the Binary
Black Women Birthing Justice
Changing Woman Initiative
Elephant Circle
Radical Doula
SisterSong
Southern Birth Justice Network
DISABILITY AND PREGNANCY/PARENTING
Disability, Pregnancy & Parenthood
Disabled Parenting Project
Through the Looking Glass
We’ve Got This: Parenting with a Disability
BODY EMPOWERMENT AND SELF-LOVE
4th Trimester Bodies Project
The Body Is Not An Apology
HEALTH/WELLNESS/RADICAL CARE
Freeing Ourselves, A Guide to Health and Self Love for Brown Bois published by the Brown Boi Project
Our Bodies, Ourselves by the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective
Trans Bodies, Trans Selves edited by Laura Erickson-Schroth
Rose Core Collective
Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism
MIDWIFERY ORGANIZATIONS
Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
New Hampshire Midwives Association (NHMA)
North American Registry of Midwives (NARM)
Vermont Midwives Association (VMA)