• Black Mamas Matter: Advancing the Human Right to Safe and Respectful Maternal Health Care

• Afterschock - Documentary on Hulu Following the deaths of two young women due to childbirth complications, two bereaved families galvanize activists, birth-workers and physicians to reckon with one of the most pressing American crises today: the US maternal health crisis. Directed by Paula Eiselt and Tonya Lewis Lee

• Birth Justice Podcast NYC, takes a close, comprehensive and creative look at how folks in New York City experience and navigate reproductive oppression and create resilience strategies for their health and their families

• Taproot Doula Project, Why Fund BIPOC in birth?

• National Partnership for Women & Families Maternity Care Reports

• Reproductive Injustice: Racial and Gender Discrimination in U.S. Health Care via the Center for Reproductive Justice, SisterSong, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health

Resources for white parents to raise anti-racist children

• Books: Coretta Scott King Book Award Winners: books for children and young adults

• Podcast: Raising Free People

• Article: Teaching your child about black history

• Evidence Based Birth, website with evidence based articles

• Reducing Unnecessary Cesarean Birth With Dr. Neel Shah , Podcast that sheds light on why New York’s cesarean birth rate is so high and what you can do, as a birthing person, to feel informed and to choose the right care-provider that aligns with your vision for birth.

• How contractions work on the uterus, video

• How to do a Psoas Release Exercise - a crucial muscle to release leading up to birth

• Very retro (but awesome!) video of births in squatting positions

• The Business of Being Born, The Business of Being Born explores the history of obstetrics, the history and function of midwives, and how many common medical practices may be doing new mothers more harm than good.

• Birth Monopoly - includes info on human rights in birth, obstetric violence & birth trauma

• Birth Rights - learn about your human rights during labor & birth

• Professional Recommendations to Limit Birth Interventions

• Spinning Babies, website - “You and your baby are working together! Your job is to dilate, baby’s job is to rotate. Empower yourselves with our daily activities, body balancing techniques, and smart birth positions for a more comfortable, confident birth.”

• Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (VBAC)

• Pelvic Floor Exercise, diaphragmatic breathing that re-engages your pelvic floor/core together

• Nourished Postpartum, Podcast by Birdsong, Brooklyn

• Show Up For Postpartum, Podcast by Birdsong, Brooklyn. Dos and Don’ts to send to a family member or friend for ideas of how to help and show-up for the family in postpartum

• Co-Sleeping With Infants: Science, Public Policy, and Parents Civil Rights, with James McKenna, PhD

• Safe Sleep Seven, bedsharing to get more sleep - seven tips that make it safer

• Cesarean Birth Recovery, Blog

• Sitz Bath benefits and instructions

• Kellymom.com

• Bodywork: Gentle Exercises, Tummy Time And Massage For Babies to help improve digestion and latching

• Learn how to hand express

• Creating a deeper latch

• Benefits of skin-to-skin to help increase supply

• Benefits and how to of slow-paced bottle feeding

• 7 Tips for Making Tummy Time Less Miserable, from a pediatric Occupational Therapist

• Playing with Your Newborn Baby

• How to Roll Your Newborn Into & Out of Tummy Time. Start tummy time as soon as you can! Consider not “sitting” your baby up — let them discover it on their own! Read more about it here.

• The Whole Brain Child, Book

• Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke

• Birth Without Fear, January Harshe

• Birthing From Within, Pam England & Rob Horwitz

• First 40 Days, Heng Ou

• Sweet Sleep, La Leche League International

• The Birth Partner, Penny Simpkin

• Becoming Us, Elly Taylor

• Expecting Better, Emily Oster

• Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood—and Trusting Yourself and Your Body, Erica Chidi Cohen

• The Fourth Trimester, Kimberly Ann Johnson