Suggested Reading List
Pregnancy and Childbirth:
- Arms, Suzanne, Immaculate Deception II, Myth, Magic & Birth, Celestial Arts, 1996.
- Armstrong, Penny and Feldman, Sheryl, A Midwife’s Story, Ballantine Books, 1986.
- Armstrong, Penny and Feldman, Sheryl, A Wise Birth, William Morrow and Company Inc., 1990.
- Balaskas, Janet, Active Birth: The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally, Harvard Common Press, 2000.
- Eisenstein, Mayer, The Home Birth Advantage, CMI Press, 2000.
- England, Pam and Horowitz, Rob, Birthing From Within, Partera Press, 1998.
- Gaskin, Ina May, Spiritual Midwifery, The Book Publishing Company, 1990.
- Gaskin, Ina May, Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, Bantam Dell, 2003.
- Goer, Henci, The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth, Berkley Publishing Group, 1999.
- Kitzinger, Sheila, The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc, 1989.
- Kitzinger, Sheila, Homebirth, Dorling Kindersley Inc., 1991.
- Kitzinger, Sheila, Rediscovering Birth, Pocket Books, Inc., 2000.
- Jones, Carl, Mind Over Labor, Penguin Books USA, Inc., 1987.
- Logan, Onnie Lee, Motherwit – An Alabama Midwife’s Story, Penguin Books USA, Inc., 1991.
- Odent, Michel, Birth Reborn, Birth Works Press, 1994.
- Sears, William A., and Sears, Martha, The Birth Book, Little Brown & Co., 1994.
- Sears, William A., and Sears, Martha, The Pregnancy Book, 1997.
- Taylor, Catherine, Giving Birth, Berkley Publishing Group, 2002.
17. Vincent, Peggy, Baby Catcher, Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, Scribner, 2002.
For Children:
- Ashbe, Jeanne, What’s Inside.
- Ashbe, Jeanne, And After That.
- Cole, Joanna, How You Were Born.
- Faber, Adele and Mazlish, Elaine, Siblings Without Rivalry (FOR PARENTS)
- Fatwell, Cathryn, We Have a Baby.
- Fraisier, Debra, On the Day You Were Born.
- Lansky, Vickie, New Baby at Cocoa Bear’s House.
- Kitzinger, Sheila, Being Born
- Lansky, Vickie, Welcoming Your Baby.
- Nilsson, Lennart, A Child is Born.
- Overend, Jenny, Welcome With Love.
- Sears, William, What to Do or Expect When Baby Comes.
- Sears, William, What to Expect When Mommy’s Expecting.
- Sears, William, and Sears, Martha, What Baby Needs
- Sears, William, and Sears, Martha, Baby on the Way
- Spillmann, U. & Kamieth, I. Runa’s Birth.
For Fathers:
- Heinowitz, Jack, Fathering: Right from the Start, New World Library, 2001.
- Heinowitz, Jack, Pregnant Fathers: Becoming the Father You Want to Be, Andrews & McMeel, 1997.
- Heinowitz, Jack, Pregnant Fathers: Entering Parenthood Together, Parents as Partners Press, 1995.
- Simkin, Penny, The Birth Partner, Harvard Common Press, 2001.
Breastfeeding/Baby Care:
- Abramov, Tehilla, Straight From the Heart.
- Gotsch, Gwen, and Torgus, Judy (La Leche League), The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, 1997.
- Huggins, Kathleen, The Nursing Mother’s Companion, 1999.
- Kitzinger, Sheila, Breastfeeding Your Baby, 1998.
- Sears, William A., and Sears, Martha, Baby Book, 1993.
- Sears, William A., and Sears, Martha, The Breastfeeding Book, 2000.
Women’s Health:
- Boston Women’s Health Collective, The New Our Bodies, Ourselves (Updated and Expanded for the ‘90s), Touchstone, 1984.
- Doress, Paula B. and Siegal, Diana Laskin, in cooperation with The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, Ourselves, Growing Older – Women Aging with Knowledge and Power, Touchstone, 1994.
- Northrup, Christiane, M.D., Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom, Bantam Books, 2000.
- Northrup, Christiane, M.D., The Wisdom of Menopause, Bantam Books, 2001.

