Pregnancy and Parenting Linklove

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Pregnancy and Parenting Linklove

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Here are some links and resources to get you started!

At Scarleteen:
Human Reproduction: A Seafarer's Guide
Can I Get Pregnant, or Get or Pass On an STI From That?
All About Abortion
To Jane & Sarah for Their 30th Birthday
I think I might be pregnant, and might have to choose an abortion.
Obtaining Abortion When You Need Funding and a Judicial Bypass
She's Under 18: How Can She Get an Abortion?
Birthmotherhood
Granny Panties
I'm pregnant: he's MIA, and my parents want me to abort. Help!
I'm 14 and Want a Baby. Is That Weird or Slutty?
The Reality of New Mommyhood
Hey, Boyfriend! Male Reproductive Choices
I Want It NOW!
Peeing on a Stick: All About Pregnancy Tests
How do I tell my Mom I might be pregnant?
I might be pregnant, and everyone wants me to do something different.
Dealing With Doctors: Taking Control of Your Health Care Destiny
Scarleteen volunteer Sarah's Pregnancy Liveblog
Self-Care a La Carte
Self-Care When It's Scary
She's pregnant: what now?
I got her pregnant, and I just can't deal.

Online Elsewhere:
Pregnancy information at Planned Parenthood
The Massachusetts Alliance on Teen Pregnancy
Exhale
FWHC's archive of first-person abortion stories
Girl-Mom

Some Books:
Choice: True Stories of Birth, Contraception, Infertility, Adoption, Single Parenthood, and Abortion, edited by Karen E. Bender and Nina de Gramont.
Our Bodies, Ourselves: Pregnancy and Birth, The Boston Women's Health Collective
You Look Too Young to be a Mom: Teen Mothers on Love, Learning, and Success, by Deborah Davis
Dreams to Reality: Help for Young Moms: Education, Career, and Life Choices, by Laura Haskins-Bookser
Your Pregnancy & Newborn Journey: A Guide for Pregnant Teens, by Jeanne Warren Lindsay

Feel free to add your own links to content you really like about pregnancy, any and all options with pregnancy, birth, human reproduction information, parenting (including teen parenting) or other related topics below!

Please do NOT post links to any anti-choice material here or anywhere else on the boards. Scarleteen is an organization and community that strongly supports the right to all reproductive options equally: to parenting, abortion or adoption. Additionally, please make sure any links you add support everyone's right to make choices about their own bodies, including the choice to become pregnant. Content which intentionally seeks to scare or shame teen parents or teens who are pregnant is not okay here or anywhere else on the boards.
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Re: Pregnancy and Parenting Linklove

Unread post by knowtucuerpo »

an enormous link list on pregnancy,childbirth, postpartum, and parenting resources. haven't looked through all of them and what works for this one person may not be what you're looking for, but i just thought i'd share here:

http://www.redmoonyoga.com/birth_parenting_links.html

also:
--squat birth journal, all available online
--ina may's guide to childbirth, ina may gaskin
--mothering the new mother: women's feelings & needs after childbirth, sally placksin
--the birth partner, penny simkin
--the doulas: radical care for pregnant people, mary mahoney & lauren mitchell
--the birth hour podcast
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