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Resource Library for Mindful Birthing Students

Here, you'll find a complete collection of all our course handouts, plus some extras -- as well as links to helpful websites, apps, and podcasts. If there's something you would like me to add to this list, please get in touch! 

  

Getting Started
  • Course workbook (PDF)
  • Self Reflection Exercise: Beliefs About Birthing (PDF)

​Module 1: Foundations
  • Embracing the Unknown (PDF)

Module 2: Anatomy & Physiology
  • Anatomy of pregnancy (PDF)
  • Your Body Throughout Pregnancy Slideshow (Web)
  • Belly Mapping (PDF)

Module 3: Labor Process
  • Hormonal Physiology of Childbearing (PDF)

Module 4: Coping & Comfort
  • Self-Reflection Exercise: Coping (PDF)
  • Comfort in Labor (PDF)
  • Birth Partner's Checklist of Comfort Measures (PDF)
  • Debra Betts - Acupuncture and Acupressure for labor (PDF)
  • Tried & True Tips for Transition (PDF)

Module 5: Breath & Body
  • Positions for Labor and Birth (PDF)

Module 7: Decision-Making & Communication 
  • BRAIN -Tool for decision-making (PDF)
  • Guide for Interviewing Doulas (PDF)
  • Choosing a Care Provider (PDF)
  • What to ask a Physician (PDF)
  • What to ask a Birth Center (PDF)
  • What to ask a Midwife (PDF)
  • Self-Reflection Exercise: Birth Priorities (PDF)
  • Antiracist Birth Preferences Guide (PDF)
  • Packing List for Hospital Birth (PDF)
  • Sample Birth Plan: Hospital birth (PDF)
  • Sample Birth Plan: Very Simple Hospital Birth Plan (PDF)
  • Sample Birth Plan: Twin Birth (PDF)
  • Sample Birth Plan: Home Birth (PDF)
  • Birth Plan Template: Home Birth Preferences (PDF)
  • Transfer Plan for Planned Home Birth (PDF)

Module 8: Information is Power
  • Healthy Birth Your Way: Six Steps to a Safer Birth (PDF)
  • Perineal Massage in Pregnancy (PDF)
  • Pain Management Preference Scale (PDF)
  • The Six Medical Intervention Questions (PDF)
  • Communicating with a Caregiver (PDF)
  • What Every Pregnant Woman Needs to Know About Cesarean Birth (PDF)
  • Creating a Family-Centered Cesarean (PDF)
  • Recovering from a Cesarean: Tips on Healing (PDF)
  • Things to Know about Preterm Labor (PDF)
  • When your Baby is in the NICU (PDF)
  • Dealing with Perinatal Loss (PDF)
  • Up-to-date Research on Pregnancy and COVID-19 (Web)

Module 10: After the Birth 
  • You and Your Newborn: The Relationship Begins (PDF)
  • Preparation for Breastfeeding (PDF)
  • Position and Latch (PDF)
  • Signs that Baby is Getting Enough Milk (PDF)
  • Overcoming Nursing Hurdles (PDF)
  • Pumping, Storing, and Bottle feeding (PDF)
  • Breastfeeding Past the First Six Weeks (PDF)
  • Fourth Trimester Vaginal Steam Study (Web)
  • Edinburgh Postpartum Depression Self-Assessment (PDF)
  • Self-Assessment of Distress After a Difficult Birth (PDF)

Iowa City Area
  • Click here for resources local to Iowa City

​Websites and Apps
  • Spinning Babies
Comprehensive information and instruction on encouraging easier birth through optimal fetal positioning 
  • ​Plus-Size Birth
Positive resources for plus-size pregnancy support
  • Evidence-Based Birth
Unbiased research made accessible for empowered decision-making
  • Irth App
The only app where you can find prenatal, birthing, postpartum and pediatric reviews of care from other Black and brown women. The #1 “Yelp-like” platform for the pregnancy and new motherhood journey, made by and for people of color.
  • Maia Midwifery
Resources for LGBTQ+ family-building
  • Birth Becomes You - Birth Videos
A collection of empowering, professionally produced birth videos in home, birth center, and hospital settings
  • ​The Wonder Weeks 
An app that explains your baby's developmental leaps, and shows you how you can support and stimulate your baby’s development.
  • Kellymom
An abundance of easily-searchable information about infant feeding and parenting.
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Podcasts
  • Birthful 
  • Birth Kweens
  • The Birth Hour
  • The Black Doula
  • Doing it at Home
  • Natal
  • Homecoming 
  • Evidence-Based Birth


Mapleseed Birth & Bodywork
Monica Basile, PhD
Certified Professional Midwife
Licensed Massage Therapist
Childbirth Educator
Placenta Specialist
Reiki Master/Teacher


Iowa City, IA
monica@mapleseedbirth.com
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