Birth & Bonding Family Services

Birth Support Referral Directory

Pregnancy and Labor Support
Fathers Support Services
Birth Centers

The following community practitioners and services have completed the Birth Institute's Birth Support Practitioner - Doula training.

This page offers only a few of the many practitioners and services we will have listed at this site by July 30 2003. We are currently in the process of revising and expanding the referral directory for Birth Support Practitioner as well as OBGYN, Pediatricians, and other sensitive practitioners whom women and men have recommended.

Pregnancy and Labor Support

• USA
  

  • Davis and Sacramento, California
    Pam Rex
    916 351-0359
    
    
  • Stockton, California
    Trish Salvatore
    209-931-0429
    
    

• England

  • Maisha Davis
    081-6731081
    
    
  • Jayne Deeks
    01273-513107
    

Fathers Support Services

The Fathers Forum

Provides programs to help expectant and new fathers make the transition to parenthood.
A unique 2 hr. class "Becoming a Father" offered monthly.
On-going fathers groups for dads with children under six.

Bruce Linton, PhD
(510) 644-0300

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Birth Centers

• The Birth Home - Pleasanton

  (Free Standing Birth Center - Liscensed by the State of California)

  • A safe alternative
  • Family friendly atmosphere
  • Whirpool tub fo labor and birth

  1393 Santa Rita Rd., Ste C
  Pleasanton, California

  If you wish your primary caregiver to be a midwife, phone
  Beah Harber, CNM: (925) 449-7666

  If you wish your primary caregiver to be a doctor, phone
  Micheal Bleecker, M.D.: (925) 447-1010

• San Francisco Birth Center - Sage Femme Midwifery Service and Educational Center

  877 Bryant Street, Suite 210
  San Francisco, CA 94103
  800-841-9525

  Judith Loebensteen-Tinkelenberg, RN, CNM, CCE

• Women's Health and Birth Center - Santa Rosa

  583 Summerfield Road
  Santa Rosa, CA 95405
  707-539-1544