Breastfeeding

  • Breastfeeding Online: helps to empower women to choose to breastfeed and to educate society at large about the importance and benefits of breastfeeding.
  • Getting Started with Breastfeeding from Stanford School of Medicine: Videos to assist with breastfeeding, especially if you are having any difficulties.

Events & Directories

Shopping & Planning

  • Armommy: A lifestyle company for moms who value style, quality and convenience. They sell some great, innovative products.
  • Babysteals.com: Offers one item per day at a drastically reduced price (steal!).
  • Birth Plan Generator: create a personal birth plan for free by checking boxes for your preferences, or specifying items that don't appear. The birth plan can then be printed.
  • Interactive Birth Plan: Similar to the Birth Plan Generator above.
  • Lila Guide: "The word-of-mouth survival guide for parents"
  • Lotsa Helping Hands: Allows family, friends, neighbors, and colleagues to create community and assist with the many daily tasks that become a challenge for new parents, parents with multiples, or parents in a temporary crisis.
  • MealTrain.com, TakeThemAMeal.com: Websites to organize meals to be brought after the baby is born.
  • Pregnancy Corner: Articles on conceiving, being pregnant, giving birth, pregnancy loss, and pregnancy support.
  • What's your Birthing Personality? Pregnancy Today has a quiz to help you determine what your perfect birth looks like.

Articles & Research

  • The Birth Survey: share birth experiences, view consumer feedback on hospitals, birth centers, and care providers, and view hospital intervention rates
  • Bringing Baby Home: combines scientific research and service product delivery in order to improve the quality of life for babies and children by strengthening their families
  • Childbirth Connection: a source for trustworthy, up-to-date, evidence-based information and resources on planning for pregnancy, labor and birth, and the postpartum period
  • Choices in Childbirth: a non-profit organization that strives to improve maternity care by helping women make informed decisions about where, how and with whom to birth.
  • The Cochrane Collaboration: An international, independent, not-for-profit organization dedicated to making up-to-date, accurate information about the effects of health care readily available worldwide.
  • Kelly Mom: provides evidence-based information on breastfeeding, sleep and parenting.
  • Midwifery Today: The heart and science of birth
  • Mother's Advocate: Free videos and print materials on How to Have a Better Birth
  • Share with Women: Health care articles from the Journal of Midwifery & Women's Health, written for patients.
  • Transition to Parenthood: Childbirth education on the internet
  • Washington Information Network 2-1-1: Community resources online

Miscellaneous

  • Green Works Photography: Ivy Green takes beautiful photos, from "belly" shots to baby pictures! Check our her gallery!
  • Grassroots Community Acupuncture: offered on a sliding scale.
  • iBirth: Great DVD and an iPhone app. The video includes positions for all stages of labor; the app includes the videos plus prenatal nutrition and tips and lists.
Areas served: all hospital, birth center and home births in King County and South Snohomish county including Kirkland, Juanita, Bothell, Woodinville, Kenmore, Bellevue, Redmond, Sammamish, Seattle, Queen Anne, Capitol Hill, Greenlake, Northgate, Ballard, Shoreline, Edmonds, Lynnwood, Mountlake Terrace, Mukilteo, Mill Creek, Monroe, Everett, and Snohomish.