Recommended Pregnancy & Birth Books
Go ahead, put your feet up and enjoy a cup of herbal tea. The accumulated experience and wisdom of generations of women is waiting for you.
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Comprehensive, natural guide to pregnancy and birth from the folks who know it best.
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The book that really helps you avoid interventions you don't want during birth. I can't recommend it highly enough.
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Ina May Gaskin is a personal hero of mine. I read her first birthing book over and over during my first pregnancy sixteen years ago, and was ready to take off for her farm so she could deliver my baby!
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Deepak Chopra teams up with childbirth educator Vicki Abrams and physician David Simon to put the sacred back into birthing. Yoga, meditation, healing herbs and conscious communication with your partner.
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The subtitle says it all.
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"This is a fantastic book for any expectant mom. A friend of mine told me about it when I was about 32 weeks pregnant. She spoke so enthusiastically about it, I went ahead and bought it, despite the fact that I was so near my due date and had already read so many pregnancy-related books. I read this book cover to cover as soon as I received it, and IT CHANGED MY LIFE. I had spent a majority of my pregnancy resenting the treatment I received from my OBs and feeling frustrated that no one was behind my initial (and instinctual) desire to home-birth my baby, in a bathtub, with a midwife. Reading this book helped give me the strength to stand up for myself and for what I wanted for myself and my baby, in terms of labor and birthing. Because of the restraints of our insurance company, I couldn't do a home-birth, but it still worked out fine. I switched to a midwife at 34 weeks, and while I gave birth in a hospital, I labored almost entirely at home (except for the 30 minute car ride to the hospital), and I didn't feel trapped anymore! I LOVE THIS BOOK!!" --Gloria Signes
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