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Suggested Reading

Behrmann, Barbara.  The Breastfeeding Café:  Mothers Share the Joys, Challenges, and Secrets of Nursing

Cassidy, Tina.   Birth:  the Surprising History of How We Are Born

England, Pam & Rob Horowitz.  Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation

Freedman, Lois.  Birth as a Healing Experience

Fields, Alan and Denise.  Baby Bargains

Gaskin, Ina May.  Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth

Goer, Henci.  The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth

Gordon, Jay & Maria Goodavage.  Good Nights: The Happy Parents’ Guide to the Family Bed (and a Peaceful Night’s Sleep. 

Harris, A. Christine.  The Pregnancy Journal: A Day to Day Guide to a Healthy and Happy Pregnancy

Huggins, Kathleen.  The Nursing Mother’s Companion

*Karp, Harvey.  The Happiest Baby on the Block : The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
*(If you only buy one thing related to calming babies and getting babies to sleep longer, buy the DVD of The Happiest Baby on the Block.  You then can learn along with it, and review it whenever you need it again.  Wonderful resource!)

Kitzinger, Sheila. The Year After Childbirth

Korte, Diana.  The VBAC Companion : The Expectant Mother's Guide to Vaginal Birth After Cesarean

Mohrbacher, Nancy & Kathleen Kendall-Tackett.  Breastfeeding Made Simple

Newman, Jack & Teresa Pitman.   The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers:  The Most Comprehensive Problem-Solution Guide to Breastfeeding from the Foremost Expert in North America 

O’Mara, Peggy.  Mothering Magazine’s Having a Baby, Naturally:   The Mothering Magazine Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth

Northrup, Christiane.  Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

Sears, William and Martha.  The Pregnancy Book:  Month-by-Month, Everything You Need to Know from America’s Baby Experts

Sears, William.  The Birth Book : Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth

Sears, William and Martha.  The Baby Book

Sichel, Deborah, & Jeanne Watson Driscoll.  Women’s Moods

Simkin, Penny. The Birth Partner

Simkin, Penny, Whalley & Keppler.   Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn

Small, Meredith. Our Babies, Ourselves

Somer, Elizabeth.   Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy

Tondat Ruggeri, Lynn and Costa, Laura.  Safer for Your Baby:  A Guide to Living Better with Fewer Chemical