Birth Work and Energy Work

• Audra Nelson - Audra is your source for all your placenta needs, including encapsulation, tincture, and umbilical cord keepsakes. Audra also rents several different sizes of pools. Agape Blooming clients will receive their pool at about 36 weeks of pregnancy. Audra will deliver pools to all other clients. - 402-850-7644

• Thrive Chiropractic - Shana Gorman-Dunn - 602-390-0917

• Got Kundalini Healing Services - Seva Simran Khalsa - 415-375-0813

• Latisa Ratliff –P.S. Love Mommy – Birth doula team, photographers, placenta encapsulators, birth pool rental

• Crys Melton – Doula, childbirth educator, placenta processing – 480-215-0018

• Gila Shire – Yogila – Doula, yoga, massage, and other energy work - 602-672-1319

• Roxanne Barnes – Bodytalk, craniosacral therapy, CNM - realignwithroxanne@gmail.com - 623-688-3818

• Benjamin Lewis IV – MAA Wellness Center, Inc – Phoenix - 602-305-4719

IBCLC/Lactation Consultants/Tongue Tie

• Dr. Cara Riek – Arizona Breastfeeding Medicine - 7730 E. Greenway Rd, St. 101, Scottsdale – Cell-480-508-0861 Office-480-208-1490

• Michelle Hottya, IBCLC – Agave Pediatrics, Chandler - 480-585-5200

• AZ Breastfed Babies – North Phoenix and Goodyear offices – 623-526-0673

• Mama Bird Lactation – Queen Creek – 480-459-1196 - **Home visits

Local Support Resources

• Arizona Birth Network-Promotes awareness of evidence-based care and informed decision-making through advocacy, education, and support

• La Leche League: Your local breastfeeding experts. A huge lending library, lots of like-minded women, and the best advice you’ll find

• International Caesarean Awareness Network AZ- The local chapter of the International Caesarean Awareness Network (ICAN) meets monthly in AZ

National Support Resources

• Evidence-Based Birth -Rebecca Dekker Ph.D., RN, Founder – Evidence-based information on all things birth. Not opinion-based, fact-based. Along with resources, books, and childbirth classes

• Spinning Babies – Teaches the physical relationship between the bodies of the mother and baby, for the easing of childbirth. Along with access to classes, positioning, techniques, etc.

• The Childbirth Connection is a source of trustworthy, up-to-date, evidence-based information and resources on planning for pregnancy, labor & birth, and the postpartum period

Information on Homebirth and Midwives

• The Big Push for Midwives is working to legalize out-of-hospital birth and midwifery in all 50 states

• Citizens for Midwifery

• Improving Birth Coalition: Organizations, professionals, advocates, and families, that share a commitment to making Mother-Friendly Care a reality

• MANA: An organization of North American Midwives and their advocates

• The North American Registry of Midwives: The international certifying and credentialing agency for Certified Professional Midwives (CPM)