Birth & Midwifery in the United Kingdom
RESOURCES FOR PARENTS AND PRACTITIONERS

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Verona Hall, Diana Boskma and Sarah Montagu

Verona Hall has been a midwife since 1996 and has had an independent midwifery practice since 2002. She is also a nurse and became a certified lactation consultant in 2005. Verona teaches preparation for birth and workshops on breastfeeding, homebirth, first aid and resuscitation. She devised a training manual for midwifery assistants and in 1997 received the Bounty Midwives Professional Development Award. Her goal in work is using research-based information and her extensive knowledge to help clients and other midwives, thereby raising standards. She may be contacted through her Web site: http://www.veronahall.co.uk/

Diana Boskma is an aspiring midwife who lives south of London in Surrey. She is an Attachment Parenting Europe (AP EU) leader and a La Leche League (LLL) leader, in addition to being a trained homeopath, herbologist, hydrotherapist, reflexologist (including Shaitsu), aromatherapist, Reiki practitioner and Bach flower remedies therapist. Diana is also a doula.

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Birth/Midwifery

• MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service)—an educational charity set up in 1985, providing information and practical resources to maternity healthcare professionals.
• Midwives Online
• Association of Radical Midwives
• WombEcology.com—information on intrauterine life from Michel Odent and Pascal Odent
• Birth Centre Network UK e-group
• The Birth Centre (London)
• With Woman—Sara Wickham (Midwife)
• Biological Nurturing—Web site of Suzanne Colson
• Virginia Howes—Independent Midwife
• Sheila Kitzinger—Author
• Active Birth—Ruth Armes
• Active Birth Centre
• Home Birth Reference
• BirthLight —Françoise Barbira Freedman
• History of Nursing & Midwifery UK
• BirthChoice UK
• eumom.com—Pregnancy information
• Bristol Hypnotherapy Clinic Childbirth
• Premature Babies
• The Doula Association UK—Find an independent doula in the UK, including Scotland, Wales, Ireland and more!
• Fairy God Mother Doulas
• Millennia Doulas—London
• Mary Cronk Midwifery Services—independent midwife
• Aida Kaman Stephens—independent midwife
• The London Birth Practice—Independent Midwives

Parenting/Breastfeeding

• Attachment Parenting Europe
• Attachment Parenting International
• Natural Parenting
• Baby Milk Action
• La Leche League—Great Britain Chapter
• ABM—Association of Breastfeeding Mothers
• Breastfeeding
• National Childbirth Trust
• The Natural Nurturing Network

More resources may be found within this article on our Web site: Homebirth in the UK—by Brighton Homebirth Support Group