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
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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 Sugery, 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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Natural Baby and Childcare, Lauren Feder, MD
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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 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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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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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