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Resources

Books to Prepare You for Birth:

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Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way (2017 Revised Edition)

   Susan McCutcheon

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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth,

   Ina May Gaskin

 

Natural Hospital Birth: The Best of Both Worlds,

   Cynthia Gabriel

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The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth,

   Henci Goer

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Books to Prepare You for Breastfeeding:

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The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

   La Leche League

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Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Breastfeeding

   Kathleen A. Kendall-Tackett and Nancy Mohrbacher

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Defining Your Own Success: Breastfeeding After Breast Reduction Surgery

   Diana West

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Working Without Weaning, A Working Mother's Guide to Breastfeeding

   Kirsten Berggren, PhD, CLC

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Books to Prepare You for Baby:

 

Amazing Babies Moving: Essential Movement to Enhance Your Baby's Development in the First Year

   Beverly Stokes

 

Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters

   Erica Komisar, LCSW

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Our Babies, Ourselves: How Culture and Biology Shape the Way We Parent

   Meredith Small

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Parenting from the Inside Out

   Daniel J. Siegel, MD and Mary Hartzell M.Ed

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The Baby Book

   William Sears, MD and Martha Sears, RN

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The Nurture Revolution: Grow Your Baby's Brain and Transform their Mental Health through the Art of Nurtured Parenting

   Greer Kirshenbaum, PhD

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The Vaccine Friendly Plan

   Paul Thomas, MD and Jennifer Margulis, PhD

Films and Documentaries:

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The Business of Being Born

   Abby Epstein & Ricki Lake

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Laboring Under an Illusion: Mass Media Childbirth vs. the Real Thing

   Vicki Elson, MA, CCE

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Why Not Home?  

   Jessica More

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These Are My Hours

   Scott Kirschbaum & Emily Graham

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What Babies Want

   Debby Takikawa

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Books on Caring For Your Feminine Self 

and Fertility

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Taking Charge of Your Fertility

   Toni Weschler

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Period Repair Manual

   Lauren Briden ND

  

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Books to Motivate You into Action:

Note: These are incredible books with invaluable information for parents and birth professionals. However, they may be upsetting for sensitive pregnant mamas and may be best suited to reading before or after pregnancy for some individuals.

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Pushed: The Painful Truth about Childbirth and    Modern Maternity Care

   Jennifer Block

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Over-diagnosed: Making People Sick in the Pursuit   of Health

   Dr. H. Gilbert Welch, Dr. Lisa M.  Schwartz and Dr. Stephen Woloshin

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A Compromised Generation: The Epidemic of     Chronic Illness in America's Children

   Beth Lambert

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Birth as an American Rite of Passage

   Robbie E. Davis-Floyd

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 ACOG's Position Paper to Limit Interventions
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ACOG

  Use of Technology in Birth:

Safety and Concerns

 

Marsden Wagner, MD

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Spontaneous labor in a normal woman is an event marked by a number of processes so complicated and so perfectly attuned to each other that any interference will only detract from the optimal couse. The only thing required from the bystanders is that they show respect for this awe-inspiring process by complying with the first rule of medicine - nil nocene (Do No Harm.)"

 

  ~ G. Kloostermen, MD

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