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Click here, or on the picture, to feel
warm and fuzzy!
"I like Mike!" Gravel '08...
End the Corruption!
End the
war!
Save the planet!
http://www.allthingsgravel.us/
A
few of our designs available on various products at cafepress:
Do you like organic stuff? Is your baby a fan too? Get
this cute organic, hand-painted tee for your little sprout (or choose a custom
slogan of your own). Click on the pictures for more information.
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Does your business have
a policy that welcomes and / or promotes breastfeeding and baby-friendly
practices? If you would like a FREE listing or ad on this site, simply contact
us. See the
section on ProMoM.org called "For Businesses"
and consider posting a
sign at your place of business that says BREASTFEEDING WELCOME HERE, or a
sticker with the
UNIVERSAL BREASTFEEDING SYMBOL
( ) to get on your way to
"BECOMING BABYWHYS"
You can also support
breastfeeding at your place of business with
this fun design, available on hats, shirts, posters, and
stickers:
Becoming
a Breastfeeding-Friendly Business
For
Customers/Clients/Patrons
- Mother should
be able to sit anywhere and enjoy a welcoming attitude from the staff and
management while she breastfeeds her child.
- Staff/Employees
should be trained to handle complaints that may arise.
For Employees
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Time-Breastfeeding mothers are given adequate time to express milk or nurse.
- Space-An
accessible, safe, clean, private space to express milk or nurse (privacy
needs and preferences should be accommodating to the mother, not forcing her
to feel like she must nurse in a secluded place, though most moms do prefer
pumping in private).
- Support-A
written breastfeeding policy that is included in personnel policies and
communicated with a welcoming attitude.
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Flexibility-Flexibility in accommodating each breastfeeding mother's unique
situation.
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Baby-Friendly resources:
Babywearing
Dr. Blois
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NINO ◦◦◦
The Sling Station ◦◦◦
Quirky Baby
Dr. Maria Blois
Dr. Blois is the author
of Babywearing and also a public speaker.
 "Babywearing
benefits parents! It enhances parent-baby bonding, is practical, facilitates
breastfeeding, helps working parents reconnect, and makes transitions from one
caregiver to another easier."
WearYourBaby.com (The Mamatoto Project)
 Learn to wear your
baby using a simple piece of cloth. This is an excellent site with instructional
videos and links to free babywearing classes. You can also order the
instructional
Tummy 2 Tummy DVD from this site.
NINO
- Nine In Nine Out - The
Babywearing Organization
"It is especially necessary
for the parental generation of the human species to fully understand what the
immaturity of its infants really signifies: that the infant is still continuing
its gestation period, passing from uterogestation to exterogestation. Among the
most important of the newborn infant's needs are the signals it receives through
the skin, the first medium of communication with the outside world." - Ashley
Montagu
Peppermint.com /
The Sling Station
"Sling Station
is experienced in slings and
wraps. We have tested all the
baby carriers that we sell for comfort and function. We have a wide
range of carriers from trusted manufacturers. We have hundreds of slings in
stock, ready to ship. Please see articles on
how to choose a baby carrier for more information."
Quirky
Baby
Quirky
Baby
sells carriers and accessories.
Special thanks to Jane McClintock of Quirky Baby for her help with our Babywhys
Letter Campaigns.
quirkybaby.com
Babies are born to be worn!
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Birth Photography
Lynsey Stone Birth Photography Blog: dfwbirthphotographer.com/blog/
The Milk of Human Kindness, The
Kindness of Human Milk
by Amy
Philo
Wife,
Mother,
Citizen
by Tracy Dower
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Books
Unbreak
Your
Health:
The Complete Guide to Complementary & Alternative Therapies
This
book offers information about proven healing techniques from
5,000 years ago to the most modern innovations. With over 300
listings in 136 categories this is the most complete book ever
published on complementary and alternative therapies. There is
only one short paragraph on diets and supplements however since
there are so many books already published on the subject. This
new book focuses on therapies, systems and devices.
Also check out
Alan Smith's blog!
Send us a
link to your recommended books! We will post it here... Email
amy@babywhys.org
or post to the
babywhys yahoo group.
You can also add a database to the yahoo group site.
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Breastfeeding
Check out
our babywhys breastfeeding page for information, links, and more:
MMU - Mom's Milk University
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Clothing
motherwear ◦◦◦
undercover mother ◦◦◦
milkwise ◦◦◦
la leche league clothing
line
Motherwear.com
 Breastfeed your baby in style with beautiful nursing clothes from Motherwear. Shop Motherwear's Weekly Web Specials! Visit often for special web-only
savings on Motherwear's garments! Shop online. Free catalog!
At Motherwear you'll find a complete selection of nursing clothes, nursing bras, pumps, and accessories - everything for a nursing mom! A swimsuit you can nurse your baby in? Yes! Find yours at Motherwear.
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 Undercover
Mother
Because We're Still
Mothers Even Under the Covers
cafepress.com/undercovermom
The official "Spread The Word" Cafe Press Store for
babywhys.org and
uniteforlife.org. This shop sells products that promote attachment parenting, saving the planet (such as with grocery totes like the
design shown here), health, and compliance with the WHO Code for Marketing of
Breast Milk Substitutes. If you'd like to purchase any of the products as part
of an outreach project, email me at
amy@babywhys.org
about getting them at cost.
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Milkwise: Your Body Knows
I felt a special need to show you this shop,
because it has designs including "Liberate Your Milk," "Not Milk," and "Oxytocin
High." Incidentally the name of the site has a certain familiarity. Super
cute... Check them out at
milkwise.com!
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 La
Leche League International Clothing
Line
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The Compleat Mother
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Mothering.com ◦◦◦
The Village
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FirstRight ◦◦◦
Birth Without Boundaries ◦◦◦
WOMB
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Ideas For Conscious Parenting
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The Birth Source
 The
Compleat Mother - The Magazine of Pregnancy, Birth, and Breastfeeding
"Compleat
Mother is dedicated to the support, promotion and protection of breastfeeding
and natural childbirth. We strive to honour mothers, babies and families by
providing a trusted and accessible forum for contributors and readers to
celebrate the art and alchemy of pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and parenting.
We are committed to telling the truth about the transformative power of
birth."
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 The Village:
TheirBirthRight Community, Classes, Store & More
(among other things you can order supplemental nursing systems
and feeding aids on this site)
Our culture has been a
hindrance to breastfeeding and self-sustaining health and social models with few
opportunities to support a paradigm shift toward a better family-centered model
of care. At TheirBirthRight we are dedicating our knowledge, skills, experiences
and resources in an effort to assist families in becoming self sufficient and
learn to optimize the emotional and physical development of their children
within the context of a supportive, loving environment.
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FirstRight
To
address FirstRight’s goals of finding and
supporting breastfeeding mothers who have faced
discrimination, educating corporations and the
public about breastfeeding rights, and
facilitating legislative change when indicated,
FirstRight has formed three committees.
FirstRight's Breastfeeding Discrimination Task
Force will collect and respond to cases of
discrimination, assisting or advocating for the
mother as needed, and organizing national events
when appropriate.
Click here to join the
Task Force.
FirstRight's Breastfeeding Rights Education
Committee will work to spread the word among
individuals and businesses about existing
breastfeeding rights. We encourage businesses to
adopt breastfeeding policies/practices and
assist them in doing so.
Click Here to join the
Education Committee
FirstRight's Breastfeeding Legislative Action
Committee is working to determine the current
status of state and national breastfeeding
legislation in order to encourage/support
efforts to improve legal protection for
breastfeeding mothers.
Click here to join the
Legislative Action Committee
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Birt h
Without
Boundaries
"Birth Without Boundaries is a non profit
organization that exists to eliminate
restrictions imposed on birthing women and their
babies. Birth Without Boundaries works with
other organizations to form a global network to
connect mothers and babies to supportive care."
In
addition to connecting with others through this
site for activism purposes, and using the
listings to find midwives and other caregivers,
the Birth Without Boundaries website is a great
source for educating yourself about pregnancy,
birth, breastfeeding, health care decisions you
will make for your child, and much more.
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WOMB:
Women's Options
in Maternity Care & Birth
WOMB's
vision is for every woman to have the knowledge
they need to
make the right choices to ensure the best
possible birth experience for them. WOMB
acknowledges that every woman is different and
every birth is different.
WOMB - Informed choice for every woman's birth!
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Ideas For
Conscious
Parenting
 "...My
deepest desire is that children are brought into
this world with more love, gentleness, and
respect than they are now, and that this gentle
treatment continues on throughout their
childhood.
...This site is for parents-to-be and parents of
young children who want to do their very best
each day to love, cherish and respect their
child, and who want to learn and grow from their
role as a parent."
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The
Birth
Source
 "We
are now discovering the long-term effect on
families of treating women as if they were
merely containers to be opened and relieved
of their contents; and of concentrating on a
bag of muscle and birth canal, rather than
relating to and caring for the person to
whom they belong." -Sheila
Kitzinger
This website connects families with services
and educational opportunities to help them
in their quest for an informed and
satisfying birth. There are articles, links
to providers, doula services and childbirth
classes. Also check out the interesting
videos and web polls! Contact email:
amy@thebirthsource.org
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Fun Links
Hathor The Cow Goddess and
the Evolution Revolution
 So
who is Hathor anyway?
"Hathor the
Cowgoddess is a character created by me (Heather
Cushman-Dowdee), an artist living in Los
Angeles, California. She is a superhero who
wants to save humanity through the combination
of nurture, sustainability and bonding inherent
in the practice of attachment parenting. Her
movement is called the Evolution Revolution, her
breasts are her superpower and her sidekick is
her baby, always carried in a sling and
prominently (politically) suckling at her
exposed breast."
Subscribe to the feed (no pun intended), and
Heather Cushman-Dowdee's art will come your
way... Her almost daily blog & comics are sure
to either make you smile or tick you off (not at
the her). Peruse the website and enjoy even more
than just the comics. You just might learn
something!
Natural Beginnings
Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas USA
 "Our
belief is that pregnancy, birth & breastfeeding are all normal, healthy
processes that have potential for being peak experiences of a lifetime. Our
first responsibility is to you - the expectant parent, to give you the
information and techniques based on the latest research that will help you have
the best possible birth experience and ease the transition from pregnancy to new
parenthood."
(This page on the website has many
local and international links to birthing centers, articles, health care
providers, and many other types of important resources:
http://www.naturalbeginningsonline.com/links.html)
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Midwives
Lovers Lane Birth Center
Dinah Warranch,
CNM
Dallas, Texas USA
 Lovers
Lane Birth Center is a midwifery practice offering home and birth center births
and well woman gynecological care attended by Dinah Waranch, certified nurse
midwife. The center is also home to a variety of other providers, a prenatal
yoga teacher, a childbirth instructor, and an additional midwife.
"I believe
that women and their babies are too important to be left to the mercy of an
insensitive, expensive and interventive medical system. I think that you'll
agree with me."
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Support Groups
HAND - Home Birth Association of North Dallas
 "This
list is for anyone interested in the Homebirth Association of North Dallas
(HAND). Our goals are to promote midwifery, to educate the public about the
safety and benefits of homebirth, and to provide resources and support to those
planning to birth at home. This list will be used to help keep members informed
of upcoming HAND events as well as to provide a forum for questions and support
between meetings. A wide variety of topics relating to pregnancy, labor, and
birth may be discussed."
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