The Ultimate Birth Research Index

This menu index and list of common terms contains links to our articles (UHBA), or other articles we feel best covers pregnancy, unassisted home birth, and postpartum topics.
As such, there is an obvious bias towards home birth in the selection of articles.
However, if you have found this page and are planning a different type of birth, we believe this list can still be helpful!

It's been designed with a dual purpose - it provides a list of ideas for things to research on your birthing journey.

Published 15th February 2021, Updated Dec 2023

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For brevity, hyperlinked articles are named after the site it will take you to.

At the bottom of most UBHA articles are extra links to great articles on that topic as there isn't room here.

We are adding articles as fast as possible, but I wanted to get this list up for a start. Thank you for your patience!

Birth

• Affirmations - UBHA

• Breech - UBHA

• Cervical Checks - UBHA

• Cervix dilation

• Complications, non transfer

• Complications, transfer

• Cord care - UBHA

• Cord Clamping - UBHA

• Cord Cutting - UBHA

• Cord burning

• Counter pressure

• Doulas

• Encaul

• Fetal distress

• Fetal Ejection Reflex (FER) - UBHA

• Hormones in birth

• Hormones in labour

• Infection

• Labouring

• Meconium - Midwife Thinking - Indie Birth - Karen Strange

• Natural pain relief - UBHA

• Not breathing - UBHA

• Nuchal cord - Midwife Thinking

• Placenta

• Placenta, birthing - UBHA

• Precipitous - UBHA

• Positioning of baby - Spinning Babies

• Positions to labour or birth in - UBHA - Evidence Based Birth

• Postpartum hemorrhage, (PPH) - UBHA

• Prolapsed cord - UBHA

• Pushing - UBHA

• Shoulder dystocia - UBHA

• Stages of labour - Whapio

• Stillborn

• Supplies - UBHA

• Tearing (perineum, labia, cervix) - UBHA

• Transition -UBHA

• Umbilical non-severance (lotus birth)

• VBAC info - UBHA

• Waters breaking - UBHA

Postpartum care

• Anxiety

• Birth Control (FAM) - UBHA

• Breastfeeding

• Breastfeeding Affirmations - UBHA

• Diastis recti (abdominal separation)

• Fundal massage

• Hormones, balance

• Infant CPR

• Lochia

• Nutrition - Lily Nichols

• Pain management

• Pelvic floor

• Postnatal Depression/PPD

• Postpartum affirmations - UBHA

• Resuming safe exercise

• Safe sleeping

• Secondary infertility

• Sex after birth - UBHA

• Tears, healing - UBHA

• TTA - UBHA

• What to expect, first week

Baby

• AGPAR score

• Breastfeeding

• Circumcision

• Colic

• Congenital disorders

• Genitals, normal

• Hormone effects on baby

• Mastitis - UBHA

• Measuring baby

• Meconium, first poop

• Microbiome in encaul or c section babies

• MTHR gene

• Newborn behaviour

• Newborn/neonatal resuscitation (NRP) - UBHA

• Not breathing at birth

• Postpartum care/assessment

• Premature/pre term birth

• Pros/cons newborn interventions

• Reflux

• Suctioning

• Tongue ties

• Vaccines

• Vernix

• Vit K

• Weighing baby

• What to expect first week

Pregnancy

• Affirmations - UBHA

• Amniotic fluid levels

• Baby space taking moving organs

• Baby's heart rate

• Belly mapping - Spinning Babies

• Belly size

• Bloody show

• Braxton Hicks

• Brewer's Diet - DR BREWER

• Broken waters( PROM/AROM) -UBHA

• Calculating your estimated due date

• Chiropractor

• Complications

• Conception (TTC) -UBHA

• Do you need a birth plan?

• Doppler use

• Exercise

• Fatigue

• Fear

• Fundal height

• Fundal height, measuring

• Gestational diabetes - Lily Nichols

• Gestational Hypertension, High blood pressure

• Group B Strep (GBS)

• Headaches

• Heartburn

• Hemorrhoids

• Herbal use - Susun Weed

• Hormones in pregnancy

• Hyperemesis Gravidum

• Hyperthyroidism

• IGUR

• Iron deficiency, anemia

• Lab work

• Lightening crotch

• Low fluid

• Massage 

• Miscarriage - UBHA

• Morning sickness

• OP Baby, occiput posterior - MidwifeThinking

• Overdue

• Placenta age, calcification - Sophie Messager

• Placenta, location, 

• Placenta previa

• Placenta, marginal previa - Wise Woman Way of Birth

• Preeclampsia (Pre E)

• Pregnancy nutrition - Brewer

• Prodromal labour - UBHA

• Rhesus Negative (RH- / Anti D) - Sara Wickham

• Round ligament pain

• Safe medication

• Supplements

• Symphysis Pubis Disorder (SPD) -UBHA

• Teas

• Transverse

• Trimesters, each

• Ultrasound - Inge Fleur - Sarah Buckley

• Vaccines

• Varicose veins

• Worry - The Joy Of This

General birth

• Age of the Mother, advanced maternal age

• Age of the mother, teenager

• Birth Plan

• Birth Registering and Birth certificate - UBHA

• Birth tools and instruments

• BRAINS acronym - UBHA 

• C section

• C Section, gentle - Sarah Buckley

• Car birth

• Cascade of intervention

• Choosing to be checked out at the hospital after

• Cleaning up after birth

• Dealing with CPS

• Death

• Essential oils

• Explaining your birth choice

• Fetoscope

• First time mother (Prima gravida) -UBHA

• Foods to avoid

• Getting your husband on board - Home - UBHA 

• Herbal remedies -UBHA

• Holding the mother

• Hospital vs homebirth

• Husbands/dad info - UBHA

• Induction, natural - UBHA

• Induction, postdates - Midwife Thinking

• Induction, necessary 

• Irish twins

• Legalities Midwife assisted

• Legalities of UC

• Making decisions in labour

• Many times mother (Multi gravida)

• Medical pain relief at hospital/home

• Ob vs midwife

• Preparing a birth space

• Siblings/kids present at birth

• Support people at birth - UBHA

• Tinctures - UBHA

• TMI of birth (poop, vomit, blood clots, breastfeeding…)

• Transfer

• Twins -UBHA

• Vitamin C

• Waterbirth - UBHA - Evidence Based Birth

• Where to buy supplies

• White coat syndrome
  
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