Breastfeeding Links and Books

Nursing Mothers Counsel
African American Breastfeeding Alliance
Office of Women's Health
Breastfeeding Facts Over Fiction: Implications for the African American Community, by Mishawn Purnell-O'Neal, MPH
Mishawn Purnell O'Neal's web site

African American Health Links

New! State of New Jersey--Black Infants, Better Survival Program
Witness Project of Harlem
Black Biomedical Research Movement
Minority Health Professions Foundation:
National Women's Health Information Center
Black Women's Health Newsletter
Sisters Supporting Sisters
World Pulse Magazine
Birth in the Tradition--Atlanta, GA Pregnancy and Childbirth Education Organization

Midwifery Links

New! Health6.com--Directory of Health
San Francisco Center for Traditional Midwifery
Oregon Midwifery Educational Resource
Diversity Midwives Canadian Midwifery Practice
MidwifeInfo.com
Action Alliance for Children
American College of Nurse Midwives
Black Nurse Midwives
Project Concern International
The Skanner article on ICTC
Midwives Alliance of North America
Midwifery Today
Jamaica Birth
Birthingway
PregnancySculpture.com
Pregancy Information - listings of pregnancy sites

Recommended Web Sites

Afrocentric Homeschoolers Association
African American Women on Tour
Association for the Study of African American Life & History
Association of African American Role Models
Women of Color/ Women of Words
Seeing Black Newsletter
Madrina Women's Community (English and Spanish)

ICTC Recommended Reading

Focus on African Traditions

!!NEW!! My Bag was Always Packed: The Life and Times of a Virginia Midwife, by Claudine Curry Smith and Mildred H.B Roberson

!!NEW!! Black Midwives and Prenatal Providers Directory: Essential Recipes and Words of Wisdom for Expecting and New Parents, by Shafia M. Monroe. www.sistahmidwife.com

African American Midwifery in the South, by Gertrude Jacinta Fraser
Beyond the Storm, by Gladys Milton with Christine B.J. Fulwylie
Breastfeeding Facts Over Fiction: Implications for the African American Community, by Mishawn Purnell-O'Neal, MPH
Folks Do Get Born, by Marie Campbell
Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers, by Valerie Lee
Listen To Me Good, by Margaret Charles Smith & Linda Janet Holmes
Mother Wit, by Onnie Lee Logan as told to Katherine Clark
Reaching Out, by Shafia Monroe
Roots of Time--A Portrait of African Life and Culture, by Margo Jefferson & Elliott P. Skinner

Black Women's Health
Black Women for Beginners, by Beverly Hawkins Hall
The Black Women's Health Book, by Evelyn C. White
Body & Soul, by Linda Villarosa, Editor, With a Foreword by Angela Y. Davis and June Jordan
Carnival of the Spirit, by Luisah Teish
For Black Women Only, by Dr. Ingrid D. Hicks
The Healing Drum, by Yaya Diallo and Mitchell Hall
It Just Ain't Fair, by Annette Dula and Sara Goering
Mabel One Midwife, by Elizabeth Redditt-Lyon
Mama Knows Best, by Chrisena Coleman
The Measure of Our Success, by Marian Wright Edelman
A Path to Healing, by Dr. Andrea D. Sullivan
Rocking the Babies, by Linda Raymond
Tapping the Power Within, by Iyanla Vanzant
The Way of the Orisa, by Philip John Neimark
Why Not Me, by Gladys Milton & Wendy Bovard

General Midwifery Study
Childbearing Year, by Susun S. Weed
New Pregnancy and Birth Book, by Dr. Miriam Stoppard
Naturopathic Handbook of Herbal Formulas, by Richard Scalzo
Varney's Midwifery, Third Edition, by Helen Varney
Holistic Midwifery, by Anne Frye
Birthsong Midwifery Workbook, by Daphne Singingtree

If you would like to see a book listed, please send a review and we will consider it if it fits our mission of African centered health promotion and midwife training.

 

Contact ICTC

International Center for Traditional Childbearing
2823 N. Portland Blvd.
Portland, Oregon 97217
Phone: 503-460-9324
Email ICTC: ictc@comcast.net
Email Shafia Monroe: sistahmidwife@msn.com

Donations

ICTC accepts donations all year long. We rely on your donations to provide the many services to help stop the premature deaths of babies, for midwives and those aspiring to become midwives, and much more. Please make checks payable to ICTC, PO Box 11923, Portland, OR 97211.

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