Women's Resources

MeadowBorn Midwifery Services Serving Los Angeles, Ventura, and Orange Counties, MeadowBorn offers well-woman gynecology, menarche counseling & workshops, menstrual health workshops, pap smears, cervical caps, home gynecology visits, pre-conception counseling, midwifery serives & home birth, menopause counseling, and rites of passage. Contact Lani Rose Jeansdottir at meadowborn@geocities.com or call (818) 347-1493.

Midwives Alliance of North America The Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA) is an organization of North American midwives and their advocates. MANA's central mission is to promote midwifery as a quality health care option for North American families. This site provides information on the midwifery profession and is a good resource, both for those who are curious about midwives and for those who may wish to become one.

Wholistic Midwifery School Birth Resources Center This site, maintained by Shelly Girard of the Wholistic Midwifery School, has information on the School, on becoming a midwife, and on childbirth in general. It also has an extensive listing of midwives in the Southern California area.

Online Birth Center This is an online resource for information on midwives, birth, breastfeeding, nutrition, alternative health resources and general health information.

An informal online resource for information on numerous motherood topics, such as pregnancy, birth, miscarriage, preemies, breastfeeding, mothering, parenting, etc.

Family Q -- Starting a Family A brief tretise on several alternatives to the traditional methods of starting a family, with links.

Growing Generations An organization of professionals dedicated to the vision of building families of choice. The first Professional Surrogacy Program exclusively working with the gay and lesbian community.

Lesbian Mothers Support Society a Canadian, non-profit group which strives to provide peer support for lesbian parents and their children, as well as those lesbians considering parenthood. Also provides legal/medical/psychosocial referrals as needed. Some of the issues of interest to LMSS are the rights of non-biological parents, access to insemination for lesbians seeking to become parents, custody issues in lesbian family breakups, and equal treatment of lesbian families in society.

Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund

For information on insemination, surrogacy, co-parenting agreements, custody, second parent adoption and other legal issues about gay parents raising kids.

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