Links
Here is a collection of links to other websites and organizations that may be of interest to you. The presence of these links on Christian Adoptions does not serve as an endorsement nor validation of their content or services as Christian oriented.
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- Adoption Agencies:
- Bethany Christian Services: A not-for-profit, Christian adoption and family services agency with more than 75 locations in 31 states and ministries in 15 other countries. Our Christian care extends to people struggling with unplanned pregnancies, infertility, and a multitude of other challenges.
- BabyItems:
- Bee a Star Personalized Books and Gifts : Personalized books for all ages and occasions. Write your own story. We’ll make you book.
- The Classic Baby Store : Catering to those parents who share our passion for fine clothing, furniture, upscale decor, unique heirlooms and the classic baby style.
- Cora’s Baby Closet : At Cora’s Baby Closet, our mission is to continuously exceed your expectations, by maintaining superior online service and providing the highest quality baby products, for a fair price, while conducting our business with integrity and the highest ethical standards.
- Glenna jean Crib Bedding at Huckleberry Moon : We offer a fine selection of Glenna Jean baby crib bedding, toddler and child clothing, modern baby crib bedding, newborn and shower gifts, personalized artwork and nursery decor.
- BabyNames:
- 123-Baby-Names: Baby naming site to help new moms with selecting names.
- Baby Names World: Site for helping you find the best name for your new baby.
- BabyNamesUSA: Exclusive personality test can help you find the perfect name for our baby.
- Cool Baby Names: Find Baby Names by Sex, Ethnic Origin, Meaning and More! Choosing a baby name to be proud of is the most important gift you can give a child. The right baby name can contribute to personal and professional success. We have over 50,599 baby names and meanings to choose from plus a lot more, so take a good look around!
- Birth:
- The Waterbirth Website : All about waterbirth & water babies. In-depth information on the newest innovation in safe, gentle, joyous, empowering childbirth. Includes a photo gallery, tutorial, personal stories, and info on a Water Baby documentary.
- Birth Announcements:
- Little Angel Announcements and Invitations: traditional custom printed birth announcements, baby shower, christening, baptism, and first birthday party invitations. See our “verses” for wording ideas.
- Birth Announcements & Baby Shower Invitations by Baby Cachet: Baby Cachet offers beautiful birth announcements, baby shower invitations, personal baby websites, adoption announcements, pregnancy announcements, birthday party invitations, baptism & christening invitations.
- Holiday Personalized Photo Cards
Come to PhotoAffections.com for photo birth announcements, wedding & elopement announcement & christmas and holiday cards. - Little Fingers, Little Toes: birth announcements, photo birth announcements, Vellum birth announcements, Holiday Cards, thank you cards and baby shower invitations.
- First Memories Online Baby Announcements: Save yourself the printing costs, stamps, and expensive card stock. Instead, impress your friends and family with a fun web site to announce the birth of your new baby. Includes 10 pictures, link to email, music, baby statistics, personal message and password protection.
- 1000 Greeting-Cards: Send Free online cards.
- Photo Creations Birth Announcements: Unique and affordable photo birth announcements, birthday invitations, holiday cards, and graduation announcements. Introduce your baby with an announcement you can be proud off!
- Holiday Personalized Photo Cards
Come to PhotoAffections.com for photo birth announcements, wedding & elopement announcement & christmas and holiday cards. - InfantMail – Photo Birth Announcements
We specialize in unique photo birth announcements. Customize your birth announcement with your baby’s photo and birth stats!
- Birth Centers:
- American Association of Childbearing Centers: AACC explains the birth center concept and the midwifery model of care for expectant parents, birth center professionals, and health policy advocates. Links and referrals are also provided.
- Birth Defects:
- CHASK: Christian Homes and Special Kids is a non-profit organization that offers help, information, and support for people who have received an adverse prenatal diagnosis. CHASK also helps arrange adoptions for these special children if the birth family decides they can not provide for a special needs child, but they do not wish to terminate the pregnancy.
- March of Dimes: Provides information on pregnancy health, prematurity, birth defects, and low birthweight.
- Breastfeeding:
- Breastfeeding.Com: Supplies information,education, and product recommendations related to breastfeeding.
- La Leche League: LLL believes that breastfeeding, with its many important physical and psychological advantages, is best for baby and mother and is the ideal way to initiate good parent-child relationships. They provide education, support, and research information concerning breastfeeding.
- Miracle of Touch: Pre-natal classes for parents to learn breastfeeding. Post-natal classes for parents with their infant, aged 3 weeks to pre-crawling, to learn infant massage and discuss new parenting concerns.
- Cord Blood:
- Cord Blood Banking: Article on cord blood banking to help women and families determine if storing cord blood is relavent to them.
- Doulas:
- Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association: CAPPA is a non-profit international organization that was founded in 1998 to offer the highest level of professional membership and training to childbirth educators, lactation educators, labor doulas, antepartum doulas and postpartum doulas. They offer referrals for finding an educator or doula in your area.
- Childbirth International: Provides comprehensive training programs for doulas and childbirth educators all over the world.
- Childbirth.Org: Information on different types of childbirth, childbirth services, and doulas.
- Doula World: Information concerning doulas, childbirth, and breastfeeding, and referrals for locating a doula.
- Doulas of North America: DONA is an international association of doulas who are trained to provide the highest quality emotional, physical and educational support to women and their families during childbirth and postpartum. They offer education concerning doulas, doula training and certification, and referrals for finding a doula.
- Financial Resources:
- Ameriplan: Learn about ways to reduce your prenatal care expenses through Ameriplan.
- Fertility/Infertility:
- American Society for Reproductive Medicine: ASRM is an organization devoted to advancing knowledge and expertise in infertility, reproductive medicine and biology.
- Fetal Development:
- Just the Facts: Information and detailed ultrasound images to help you understand and see fetal development like never before.
- Stand Up Girl: Offers in utero pictures, 3 and 4-D ultrasound pictures, and contact embryoscopy pictures.
- Government-Sponsored:
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services: Find out more information about Medicaid and locate the Medicaid office in your area. Many pregnant women qualify for Medicaid to cover their medical expenses during pregnancy and delivery.
- Insure Kids Now: Find out if your children qualify for free or low cost health insurance.
- Women, Infants, and Children: This website is maintained by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), a Federal agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, responsible for administering the WIC Program at the national and regional levels.
- Home Study Agencies:
- Adoption Home Study: Adoption home study’s completed quickly and efficiently by state of Ohio certified professional Adoption Assessor for International, Domestic, Relative, and Step-Parent adoptions. We have been through the international adoption process and will help you be approved. We serve the Indiana and Ohio area.
- Infant/Newborn Care:
- Keep Kids Healthy.Com: A medical and parenting site designed as ‘a Pediatrician’s guide to your children’s health and safety.’ Offers free parenting advice, online forums, info product recalls and pediatric news updated daily, an immunization schedule, and many other interactive features.
- Midwives:
- American College of Nurse-Midwives: ACNM provides research, accredits midwifery education programs, administers and promotes continuing education programs, establishes clinical practice standards, creates liaisons with state and federal agencies and members of Congress.
- Midwives Alliance of North America: MANA provides a nurturing forum for support and cooperation among midwives. Through a collective strength, we can ensure midwifery care for all mothers and their babies throughout North America.
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- Sea Sickness Remedies: Biobands Relief Bands or Wristband for Motion sickness is an acute condition of medical distress that results in skin pallor, weakness, nausea and vomiting. It often starts as stomach discomfort, bodily warmth, headache, dizziness and/or drowsiness, and then proceeds to stomach distress, then nausea and vomiting.
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- Multiples:TwInsight
- : Helps individuals and families become aware of the specific issues regarding multiples, to experience the joys and confront the challenges of multiple births.
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- Paternity: (these sites provide information and services)Genelex
- : Genelex Paternity Testing offers a complete range of DNA tests available during and after pregnancy. AABB accredited.
- Pregnancy Related:
- Babies Online Free Pregnancy Blogs: Create a daily online pregnnacy journal, complete with pictures, instantly and for free! Tons of other great (and free!) stuff for expectant parents too, like weekly pregnancy calendars, baby names, and more so check it out.
- BabyJellyBeans :Fully customizable baby websites in just minutes. Share your precious photos and video with a creative and unique website.
It’s fun, easy and fast to create a website for your baby. Try us for a free month. - Fit For 2, Inc. : Get the latest information on staying fit throughout pregnancy and getting back into shape after childbirth.
- Mom’s View : List of pregnancy resources and sites for families.
- National Women’s Health Information Center: Created to provide free, reliable health information for women everywhere. Browse our database for great resources or take a look through our Special Sections on topic areas like heart disease, disabilities and pregnancy.
- Pregnancy Stories: Short stories about being pregnant.
- Pregnancy Weekly: On-line resource to support you through your pregnancy week-by-week.
- TotSites – Create an adorable baby website in minutes! Share photos, journals, video, polls and more. Keep your family & friends informed on the developments of your baby.
- Pregnancy Loss:
- Baby Loss: Provide information and support online for women and their partners who have experienced the loss of a baby.
- Healing Hearts Baby Loss Comfort: Miscarriage and pregnancy loss resources and gifts to help heal the hearts and bodies of grieving mamas.
- MEND: Mommies Enduring Neonatal Death is a Christian not-for-profit corporation whose purpose is to reach out to those who have lost a child due to miscarriage, stillbirth or early infant death and offer a way to share experiences and information through support groups, the quarterly newsletter, and our Internet web site.
- Pregnancy Testing:
- History of the Pregnancy Test Kit: History of the pregnancy test kit and explanation of how they work, provided by the National Institute of Health.
- Early Pregnancy Tests: Site for purchasing early pregnancy tests and other fertility related products.
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- Pregnancy Wellness:
- Having a Healthy Pregnancy: ABC’s of Pregnancy Health, provided by the National Center on Birth Defects & Developmental Disabilities
- Pregnancy Health at Keep Kids Healthy: Information about pregnancy health, pregnancy issues, birth options, and pregnancy tools.
- Prenatal Tests:
- MEDLine Health Information: Prenatal Testing section provides education and research article links.
- Products & Services:
- Dynamicdoppler Listen to your unborn baby’s heartbeat in the privacy of your own home.
- Nature’s Child Organic and natural products for pregnancy and children in Australia.
- Stork Radio Fetal Dopplers Rent/buy the fetal doppler trusted by more expecting parents and medical professionals world wide than any other. Listen to your unborn baby’s heartbeat in the privacy of your home.
- Sweetbeats Fetal doppler rentals for in home use. Enjoy the sound of your unborn baby’s heartbeat.
- Professional Organizations:
- American College of Nurse-Midwives: ACNM provides research, accredits midwifery education programs, administers and promotes continuing education programs, establishes clinical practice standards, creates liaisons with state and federal agencies and members of Congress.
- American Nurses Association: ANA is a full-service professional organization representing the nation’s 2.7 million Registered Nurses through its 54 constituent state associations. ANA advances the nursing profession by fostering high standards of nursing practice, promoting the economic and general welfare of nurses in the workplace, projecting a positive and realistic view of nursing, and by lobbying the Congress and regulatory agencies on health care issues affecting nurses and the public.
- When to Go: An educational organization helping moms and families know when to go for different destinations.
- Association of Labor Assistants & Childbirth Educators: ALACE supports women’s choices in childbirth by offering training and referrals. ALACE believes knowledgeable childbirth educators and labor assistants/birth doulas can do a great deal to provide pregnant women with information and practical alternatives so that they may give birth with confidenSce, strength and joy.
- ProLife Organizations:
- Baptists For LifeOrganization that equips churches and centers to defend the cause of life.
- Care Net: Pregnancy Center affiliate organization.
- Heartbeat International: International and national affiliate organization of pregnancy centers.
- Priests for LifeCatholic prolife organization that equips priests, churches, and individuals to defend the cause of life.
- Teen Pregnancy:
- Stand Up Girl: Becky’s personal story about being a teen facing an unplanned pregnancy. She also has great information on fetal development and a column where you can hear from other teens facing pregnancy.
- Teen Pregnancy: Helpful site that talks about pregnancy related things for teenagers and young adults; offers a toll-free helpline.
- Teratogen Services:
- Texas Teratogen Information Services: Statewide services for identifying substances that are harmful to the developing fetus.
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- Weight Management:
- A new big concern in the health community is childhood obesity. It has serious consequences on the child’s life and future
- Women’s Health:
- Women’s Health Guide: Your ultimate source for women’s health care.
- Bucket List Ideas: Use this handy iPhone app for creating and tracking your many bucket list ideas.
- Other Links:
- Endangered Species: It is important that we all invest in protecting the endangered species of the world or they will be gone forever.
- Natural Wonders of Europe: Learn about the wonders of nature from Europe.
- Natural Wonders of North America: Discover the many amazing wonders of nature from North America.
- Natural Wonders of South America: South America has many wonders of nature waiting for you to discover.
- Natural Wonders of Asia: Explore Asia and witness the spectacular wonders of nature from this continent.
- Natural Wonders of Africa: Africa is home to some of the most amazing natural wonders.
- Natural Wonders of Oceania: Oceania extends from Australia and New Zealand up to the pacific islands of Hawaii.
- Seven Wonders: Visiting the seven wonders makes for a great escape with your family or as you try and conceive..
- Travel Tracker: Build your bucket list, travel, and track your accomplishments while sharing with the world through Facebook and Twitter.
- Search Directories & Guides
- Directory Healthy : The comprhensive health web directory.
- Health Digest : A Drug and medication directory with over 10,000 drug and medication pages, health resources and medical information.