Resources

Pre-conception

• Fertility Friend
• Babyzone

Pregnancy and Birth

• Childbirth Solutions
• Baby Center
• Mothering Magazine
• pregnancy.org

Twin, Triplets and More

• Santa Barbara Parents of Multiples

Optimal Fetal Positioning

• Spinning Babies
• Optimal Positioning

Prenatal and Birth Therapy

• About Connections
• CALM Santa Barbara

Pregnancy education and exercise classes in Santa Barbara

• Virgina Bobro - Birthing From Within, motherways.org
• Jen Gibian - Mindfulness Based Birth Preparation
• Choices in Childbirth with Sydney Lipsky R.N. 805-569-1830
• Cottage Hospital Childbirth Education Classes
• Fredda Spirka, freddaspirka@cox.net, 805-570-1247
• Tracy Schmidt - 805-962-0871

Various prenatal/postpartum yoga classes in Santa Barbara

• Yoga Soup
• SB Yoga Center
• Source Yoga

Doula Resources

• Central Coast Doulas
• Childbirth International
• Doula Association of North America
• Birthing From Within

Alternative Therapies

Chiropractors

• Hohn Family Chiropractic
• Dr. Marsha, 805-680-3110
• Crystal Chiropractic

Acupunture

• Lori Guynes, (805) 681-6225
• Pamela Grant

Breastfeeding

• La Leche League of Santa Barbara 805-270-3321
• La Leche League International
• KellyMom
• Dr. Jack Newman's Website
• Breastfeeding Videos

Lactation Consultants

• Jessica Barton, IBCLC Lactation Consultant, 805-636-0871
• Virginia Bobro, IBCLC Lactation Consultant, 805-729-6670
• Kitty Maxwell, RN, Lactation Consultant, 805-682-5606
• Cottage Hospital, Charity Lawton and Sandra Jansen IBCLCs, Bath at Pueblo, Santa Barbara, CA 93105, 805-682-7111 ext. 3499, (Answers to breastfeeding questions, education and support, weekly mothering circle)

Pump Rental, Supplies and Sales

• Santa Barbara Healthcare, 36 S. Calle Cesar Chavez, Ste B, Santa Barbara, CA 93103, (805) 892-4501 (Pump rental station, breastfeeding supplies and accessories.)
• Caldwell Pharmacy, 235 W Pueblo St., Santa Barbara, CA 93105, 805-682-7353, (Pump rental station.)
• Chicken Little, 22 E Victoria St., Santa Barbara, CA 93103, 805-962-7771, (Pump rental station, breastfeeding supplies and accessories.)

New Parent Support

• La Leche League of Santa Barbara
• Post Partum Education for Parents (PEP)
• Mamatoto of Santa Barbara
• Mothers of Preschoolers

Babywearing

• The Baby Wearer

Diapering

• Adore Diaper Service
• Mother-ease Diapers
• G-Diapers
• Cotton Babies
• Fuzzi Bunz
• Diaper Pin
• Punkin-Butt

Food delivery services

• Restaurant Connection
• Plow to Porch

Social services

• Welcome Every Baby, 805-965-0309
• 211 Help Line, dial 211
• Women Infants & Children (WIC), 877-275-8805

Things to do/classes

• SBParent
• Parenting Classes and Parent and Child Classes through City College
• Swim with Phyn

Post Partum Depression

• Santa Barbara PEP Warmline 805-564-3888

Pregnancy loss, infant loss, bereavement

• Hospice of Santa Barbara 805-563-8820
• Terra Wise 805-275-1803

Books

Pregnancy and Birth

• Spiritual Midwifery
• Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
• The Pregnancy Book
• The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
• Birthing from Within
• Pushed
• Born in the USA

Life with Baby

• The Baby Book
• Happiest Baby on the Block

Breastfeeding

• The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
• Making More Milk
• Mothering Your Nursing Toddler
• Adventures in Tandem Nursing
• Hirkani's Daughters (a must-read for nursing, working mothers!)

Sibling Preparation (for kids)

• What Baby Needs
• Baby on the Way
• My New Baby

Movies

• The Business of Being Born
• Organic Birth
• Orgasmic Birth
• What Babies Want

Videos

• Santa Barbara Birth Center Montage
• VBAC Montage

(I receive no contributions from any of these...they are just resources, books and movies I have found helpful and/or interesting and I hope they will be of use to you!)