Please feel free to visit the following sites that fully support massage, pregnancy and infant massage, and mother-friendly services:
Buffalo Midwifery Services: a local midwifery practice specializing in home birth, and embracing the midwifery model of care. www.buffalomidwiferyservices.com
Midwifery Model of Care: www.cfmidwifery.org
CIMS Coalition for Maternity Services and the Mother Friendly Initiative: A mother-friendly maternity care philosophy: www.motherfriendly.org
Buffalo Birth Network: www.buffalobirth.com
Life Cycles Center: a local non-profit organization established to provide positive, educational workshops and programs on natural cycles of life. Their programs are designed to promote education, awareness and wellness–in our lives and in our community–throughout life. Life Cycles Center offers the Girl Talk Program, Fertility Awareness, and supports natural childbirth education, pregnancy and infant massage. www.lifecyclescenter.orgThe Care Connection: a local Amherst business offering lactation support and consultation, breastfeeding, childbirth education, infant CPR and other classes, and products for sale (breast pumps, nursing wear, accessories and gifts). I also offer pregnancy massage and infant massage instruction classes at this location. Please visit their website: www.careconnectiononline.comInternational Association of Infant Massage www.iaim.netInfant Massage USA www.infantmassageusa.orgMotherMassage ® www.mothermassage.net
Resources
The Birth Survey, a project of the Grassroots Advocates Committee, through CIMS, The Coalition for Improving Maternity Services, invites mothers to take a survey to bring TRANSPARENCY to maternity care. Log on and take the survey to provide your feedback to hospitals and medical providers, and help to create a database of information for mothers, like you, to read before making decisions about their birth and maternal care.