Resources

Recommended Websites

• Due Date calculator at BabyCenter
• Henci Goer, author of The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth
• American College of Nurse Midwives
• Pregnancy Calendar
• Circumcision
• Mothering magazine
• Childbirth Connection
• National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine
• Ask Dr. Sears
• The Bradley Method
• Baby names
• VBAC
• Breastfeeding- La Leche League
• March of Dimes
• Parent's Place
• Doulas of North America (DONA)
• International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA)

Recommended Online Articles

• "Are you really in labor? 7 questions to help you know for sure" by Henci Goer
• "The Pain of Labour: A Feminist Issue" by Andrea Robertson
• "What Kind of Baby Carrier Do I Need? "  by Laura Belin
  

Recommended Books

Birthing from Within

 

Pam England and Rob Horowitz

Birthwork

 

Jenny Blyth

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

 

Ina May Gaskin

Circumcision Exposed: Rethinking a Medical and Cultural Tradition

 

Billy Ray Boyd

Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America

 

Rickie Solinger

How to Raise a Healthy Child... In Spite of Your Doctor

 

Robert Mendelsohn, M.D.

Water: The Ultimate Cure

 

Steve Meyerowitz

Rediscovering Birth

 

Sheila Kitzinger

The Doula Book

 

Klaus, Kennell & Klaus

The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth

 

Henci Goer

Gentle Birth Choices

 

Barbara Harper

The Birth Book

 

Dr. William and Martha Sears

Program Your Baby's Health

 

Barbara Luke & Tamara Eberlein

Recommended Videos

Dr. Jack Newman's Visual Guide to Breastfeeding

 

Dr. Jack Newman