Flagstaff Family Resources ~
Mountain
View Pediatrics
77 West Forest Avenue Suite 304
Flagstaff, AZ 86001
928-214-3600
Flagstaff Medical Center Women
and Infants' Center
Northern Arizona's facility for women desiring or requiring a hospital
birth. Take a virtual tour of labor, delivery and recovery or get information
on childbirth education classes and pre-registration.
Coconino County Health Department Health
Services - Healthy Babies
Information on childbirth education classes, pregnancy fitness, boot
camp for new dads, newborn care workshops, and couples skills for new
parents.
Naturopathic
Medicine - The
Flagstaff Clinic of Naturopathic Medicine
WIC
WIC is a Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children
(WIC).
Arizona
Health Care Cost Containment System (AHCCCS)
How to apply, income requirements and printable application forms.
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Northern Arizona Breastfeeding Support ~
Breastfeeding.com
The #1 site for breastfeeding information and support.
Breastfeeding
Center at the Women and Infants' Center
Lactation consultants with expertise to solve breastfeeding problems,
breast pump rentals, breast feeding supplies and prenatal breastfeeding
classes.
Flagstaff
La Leche League
Contact information and location for local La Leche League meetings.
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Recommended Parenting Resources ~
AskDrSears.com
Information on all aspects of parenting with information on attachment
parenting and co-sleeping.
Elizabeth
Pantley, Author and Parent Educator
Advice, hints, tips, links, videos, audiotapes and book on raising children
with love, compassion, respect, and consistency.
PSI:
Postpartum Support International
Resources for women with depression or those who just want more information.
Mothering
Magazine
The magazine of natural family living.
Earthy
Family
Dedicated to bringing you articles on natural living, weekly natural household
tips, healthy recipes, and a fun family playtime activity, along with
exceptional products for a healthy lifestyle.
Baby
Diapers
Advice on choosing cloth and disposable diapers, laundering cloth diapers
and potty training.
Search
Institute and MVParents.com
Search Institute has wonderful guidelines for parenting
based on 40 developmental assets that families and communities can help
develop in infants, toddlers, children and teenagers. This is one of
the most positive programs on parenting we have ever seen. There are
local teachers in Flagstaff - contact Womancare for more information.
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National Midwifery / Homebirth Information ~
Midwives
Alliance of North America
An organization of North American Midwives and their advocates.
Citizens
for Midwifery
The only national consumer-based group promoting the Midwives Model
of Care. CfM works to provide information and resources that promote
the local midwife, as well as midwives and midwifery care across the
country.
Midwifery
Today
A quarterly journal for midwives, nurses, doulas, childbirth educators,
doctors, parents, parents-to-be, and anyone who wants to learn more
about pregnancy, labor, and birth.
The
American College of Nurse-Midwives
Promotes the health and well-being of women and infants within their
families and communities through the support of the profession of midwifery
as practiced by certified nurse-midwives, and certified midwives.
National
Association of Childbearing Centers
The complete birth center resource.
The
Compleat Mother Magazine
Magazine supporting midwifery and homebirth.
Mothers
Naturally
This website has a lot of information about homebirth
and midwifery care including
statistics and resources.
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Empowering Birth Support and Information ~
The
Bradley Method® Home Page
Childbirth education classes that stress the importance of Healthy Baby,
Healthy Mother and Healthy Families.
HypnoBirthing
The HypnoBirthing childbirth method is as much a philosophy of birth
as it is a technique for achieving a satisfying, relaxing, and stress-free
method of birthing.
Birthworks
Childbirth classes, doula services and postpartum support that seek
to facilitate a woman's personal process in childbearing, and not to
impart a preconceived method of labor and birth.
DONA.org
Doulas of North America is an international association of doulas who
are trained to provide emotional, physical and educational support to
women and their families during childbirth and postpartum.
International
Cesarean Awareness Network
Information includes how to prevent an unnecessary cesarean, vaginal
birth after cesarean (VBAC), how to find resources in your community,
information about ICAN, and how to become a part of ICAN.
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Waterbirth Information ~
Waterbirth
International
Information and resources on waterbirth.
The
Water Birth Website
Provides in-depth information on the use of water for labor, childbirth,
and early childhood development. It includes fascinating information
from the world's leading waterbirth pioneers, product information, waterbirth
stories, and a waterbirth photo gallery.
AquaDoula
Sales and rentals of portable spas for labor and waterbirth. Clients
can also rent an Aqua Doula directly from the Womancare Midwifery Center.
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Products We Recommend ~
Arbonne
Premium skin care products for the entire family that are botanically-based,
pH correct, hypoallergenic and formulated without dyes or chemical fragrances.
KDI
Photography
Beautiful black and white photography of moms, babies, and families
created by Kristen Dacey Iwai.
Instinctive
Parenting
Wide variety of baby slings and carriers and information on babywearing,
attachment parenting, kangaroo care and premature babies, co-sleeping
and adoption.
Raising
Twins
Products for twins featuring breastfeeding pillows and baby carriers.
In
His Hands Birth Supply
Provider of birth supplies to midwives, birth centers and expectant
mothers all over the United States.
Motherwear
Outerwear, lingerie, bras and breastfeeding supplies for nursing moms.
Harriette
Hartigan - Insight Photography
Making visible the nature and art of pregnancy, birth, newborns throughout
life.
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Documents and Forms ~
Below
are some forms designed by Womancare that are commonly used in our practice.
Adobe Acrobat Reader Required
Home
Birth Supplies List
Iron
and Pregnancy
Release
of Records to Womancare
Options
for Your Newborn
Medical
History
Food
Recall
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