Wholistic Midwifery School of Southern California

Site Map

Credits

Information about who created this site: Credits.html
Our main homepage includes a site search engine: Index.html.
What the “Labor of Love” logo represents: Meaning.html.

Archive

These are old articles we’ve archived.
An article in memorial to Terence Freitas, son of LA childbirth educator Julie Freitas,who gave his life for the liberation of the U’wa people of Columbia. Terence.html

Currents

Birth currents contains articles pertaining to women’s health, midwifery, breastfeeding and a calendar of local events, classes, trainings, lectures, film screenings and volunteer opportunities in the Southern California region. Currents.html

Stories of amazing births by mothers, midwives, apprentices and Doulas Birthtales.html

More Birth Stories (contribute yours!) Birthtales2.html

Articles on midwifery, childbirth, pregnancy and women and infants health from peer reviewed journals and popular media. Currents.html

Childbirth, breastfeeding and infant care- related classes, workshops, trainings, events, lectures and volunteer opportunities Midwifery_events.html

Pathways

Go here if you are an aspiring midwife. Learn about schools, training programs, certification, licensure, midwifery laws, and other resources of interest to the midwifery student.

Pathways (Pathways into Midwifery)
How to become a midwife becoming.html
A featured Nurse-Midwife cnmspotlight.html
Tips for how the aspiring midwife can get started on her journey getstarted.html

Take this quiz to find out if you are a midwife howtoknow.html
Go here to find midwifery and childbirth related organizations and websites. links.html

The California laws for nurse and licensed midwifery midwiferylaw.html
Confused about how to become a midwife? This page will let you know the routes into the profession and how to get there. pathways.html
Go here to find a midwifery organization outside California, in order to find a homebirth midwife, resources.html

A featured Licensed direct –entry midwife, Shelly Girard, shelly.html
Go here to find a midwifery training program both for nurse and direct-entry midwifery, study.html

A brief history of midwifery in the U.S. tworoads.html

PDFs
Would you like to become a breastfeeding peer counselor? Take this training bfpc_training.pdf
More about the breastfeeding peer counselor training letter_bfpc.pdf
Are you a new Doula looking for births? Volunteer with this organization and help disadvantaged women get labor support volunteer.pdf

Providers

Go here if you’re seeking a birth attendant (midwife, doctor) or birth center, or are looking for a childbirth preparation class or Doula, or want a hypnobirthing class, a pregnancy massage, a chiropractor specializing in pregnancy or a birth photographer in Southern California.

Nurse-Midwives in the hospital cnmhosp.html
Licensed midwives offering homebirth homebirth-midwives.html
Childbirth education classes childbirth-education.html
Birthing Centers centers.html
Nurse-Midwives offering hospital birth cnmhosp.html
Well woman gynecology services gyno.html
Acupuncturists, chiropractors, massage therapists, hypnobirthing instructors, birth photographers, acupuncturists, and more…complimentary-birth-services.html
Parenting education and support parenting.html
Breastfeeding support and postpartum care providers postpartum.html
Labor assistants and Doulas doula-support.html

Resources

This section is full of important information for expectant parents such as choosing the place of birth, interviewing a birth attendant, writing a birth plan, and childbirth related organizations for support

Books and videos of interest and where to buy them Books.html
If you’ re seeking a midwife outside of California, go here to find midwifery orgamnizations in each state contacts.html
Understanding your options for care providers, place of birth, types of childbirth education available and more options.html
Questions to ask when inyterviewing a potential doctor or midwife or to take on your hospital tour questions.html
Find childbirth education and Doula organizations here and more resource.html
All about the support available to you: midwives, Doulas, postpartum Doulas, childbirth education and more support.html

Meet Midwife Shelly Girard

Go here if you are wanting to learn more about Childbirth at Home a Labor of Love and Shelly Girard and Seannie Gibson’s homebirth midwifery practice in Los Angeles, as well as how alternative therapies can help you during pregnancy and childbirth.

Acupuncture acu.html
Chiropractic chiro.html
Exercise During Pregnancy exercise.html
Homepathy homeopathy.html
Childbirth Hypnosis hypnosis.html
Pregnancy Massage massage.html
About Seannie Gibson LM, CPM, LLC SeanieGibson.html
Serivices offered by Shelly and Seannie services.html
About Shelly Girard, LM, CPM, MPH
About the apprentices Shelly Girard and Seannie Gibson studentmidwives.html
Why choose midwifery? whymidw.html
Why have natural childbirth? whynat.html
Yoga for pregnancy- you can do at home yoga.html
more yoga exercises yoga2.html

For answers to your childbirth related questions, email us at:

Or, call 626-388-2191