Birthing Spirit

BREASTFEEDING LINKS

• Australian Breastfeeding Association
• ABA Lactation Resource Centre
• La Leche League
• Common Sense Breastfeeding
• breastfeeding.com
• Mothering your nursing toddler
• Nursing Mother
• Patricia Hatherly: Lactation consultant & Homoeopath
• Biological Nurturing

BREASTFEEDING BOOKS

• The Natural way to Better Breastfeeding by Francesca Naish & Janette Roberts

BREASTFEEDING ARTICLES

• Am I making too much milk?
• Overactive Letdown: Consequences and treatment
• GERD and the breastfed baby

PARENTING LINKS

• Labour of Love
  
• Kindred Magazine (formerly Byron Child)
• Aware Parenting Institute
• Natural Parenting
• Hand in Hand Parenting
• Thomas Gordan – parenting resources
• Attachment Parenting International
• Australian Vaccination Network
• Mindd Foundation

PARENTING BOOKS

• Helping your baby to sleep: Why gentle techniques work best - Annie Gethan and Beth MacGregor
• Sleeping with Your Baby: A Parent’s Guide to Cosleeping – by James Mckenna
• Why love matters: How affection shapes a baby’s brain – Sue Gerhardt
• Sleeping like a baby: 100 ways to calm the crying and other books by Pinky McKay
• Nighttime parenting: How to get your Baby and Child to Sleep and other books by Dr William Sears
• No-cry sleep solutions for Babies & No-cry sleep solutions for Toddlers and other books by Elizabeth Pantly
• Heart to Heart Parenting – Robin Grille

PARENTING ARTICLES

• What your child remembers: new discoveries about early memory and how it effects us
• Good children at what price?: the secret cost of shame
• 15 ways to help your baby sleep – Pinky Mckay
• Parenting, Nighttime and Sleep – Kellymom
• Cluster Feedings and Fussy evenings – Kellymom
• FAQ about co-sleeping
• 10 reasons to sleep next to your child at night

RESEARCH

• Infant emotional and cortisol responses to goal blockage – Lewis M and Ramsay D
• Why babies should never sleep alone: a review of the co-sleeping controversy in relation to SIDS, bedsharing and breastfeeding – James J McKenna* and Thomas McDade
• James McKenna is the world’s number one sleep expert – University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, IN 46556, USA.  Mother-Baby Behavioural Sleep Laboratory

Autralian Association for Infant Mental Health Inc:

• Position Statement 1: Controlled Crying
• Position Statement 2: Responding to infant cues

SUPPORT NETWORKS

• Natural Parenting
• Alliance for Transforming the Lives of Children
• Sydney Natural Parenting – Playgroups link
• Natural Parenting Melbourne Inc – playgroups