Active Birth : The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally

Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choices, and Take Back the Birth Experience

Ricki Lake, Abby Epstein, Jacques Moritz · 238 pages

The national C-section rate is at an all-time high of 31 percent. Are all these C-sections necessary, or are some of them done simply for the sake of convenience? Inductions seem to be the norm, but are they always needed? Today, expectant mothers are often left feeling powerless, as their instincts are replaced by drugs and routine medical procedures. What you are about to discover is that you ha

Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth

Grantly Dick-Read · 352 pages

HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method

Marie F. Mongan · 326 pages

Spiritual Midwifery

Ina May Gaskin · 473 pages

Shares the birthing stories of women who chose to have their babies at home with the help of a midwife, provides information about the safety of techniques used in the hospital before and after birth, discusses postpartum depression and maternal death, and includes resources for doulas, birth centers, and other organizations.

Rough Guide To Pregnancy And Birth

Kaz Cooke · 432 pages

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of this best-selling Rough Guide gives you the up-to-date lowdown on pregnancy, birth and coping when you first get home. A week by week guide to what's happening to you and the baby, from choosing where to give birth, coping with nausea and understanding the tests you will need to dealing with stretch marks, breastfeeding for the first time and adapti

Your Pregnancy Week by Week

Glade B. Curtis, Judith Schuler

"With millions of copies sold worldwide, Your Pregnancy Week by Week is the established go-to resource for expectant parents time and time again. The book's trademark week-by-week formula helps expectant parents compare the details of their pregnancy with the same weekly schedule their doctor uses--easily and effortlessly.In this completely revised seventh edition, parents-to-be will find the late

Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The Wisdom and Science of Gentle Choices in Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting

Sarah J. Buckley

When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads: Proven Guidelines for a Healthy Multiple Pregnancy

Barbara Luke, Tamara Eberlein · 360 pages

A Clinically Proven Program for Women Pregnant with MultiplesCompletely Updated, with 50 Recipes for Optimal Birth WeightYou're expecting more than one baby? Congratulations! In When You're Expecting Twins, Triplets, or Quads, Dr. Barbara Luke's practical, nutrition-based program has been proven to lower complications, resulting in much healthier babies. This revision offers more nutritional infor

The Girlfriends' Guide to Pregnancy

Vicki Iovine · 275 pages

Offers practical, light-hearted advice to pregnant women, including tips on dealing with mood swings, sex during pregnancy, common fears, and physical fitness.

The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

Diane Wiessinger, La Leche League International, Diana West, Teresa Pitman

The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and Other Labor Companions

Penny Simkin · 337 pages

Husband-Coached Childbirth: The Bradley Method of Natural Childbirth

Robert A. Bradley, Ashley Montagu · 214 pages

Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know

Emily Oster · 328 pages

Pregnancy--unquestionably one of the most profound, meaningful experiences of adulthood--can reduce otherwise intelligent women to, well, babies. We're told to avoid cold cuts, sushi, alcohol, and coffee, but aren't told why. Rules for prenatal testing are hard and fast--and unexplained. Are all of these recommendations right for every mom-to-be? Here, the author shows that pregnancy rules are oft

What to Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting

Heidi Murkoff · 480 pages

The Mother of all Pregnancy Books

Ann Douglas · 577 pages

Arming expectant parents with all the information they need to know about conception, birth and everything in between, this entertaining guide, based on the best advice from over 100 parents and a panel of experts, has been completely revised and updated to celebrate its 10th anniversary. This bestselling pregnancy guide includes chapters on preparing for motherhood, planning for a healthy pregnan

What to Expect When You're Expecting

Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi E. Murkoff, Sandee E. Hathaway · 616 pages

We're expecting again! Announcing the completely revised and updated third edition of America's best-selling pregnancy book, What to Expect When You're Expecting. Two years in the making, it's a cover-to-cover, chapter-by-chapter, line-by-line revision and update. Everything that the original did-which, at just shy of 10 million copies in print, it did extraordinarily well-the third edition does,

Skinny Bitch Bun in the Oven: A Gutsy Guide to Becoming One Hot (and Healthy) Mother!

Rory Freedman, Kim Barnouin · 329 pages

Over 1,000,000 Skinny Bitches worldwide! Skinny Bitch created a movement when it exposed the horrors of the food industry, while inspiring people across the world to stop eating "crap." Now the "Bitches" are back-this time with a book geared to pregnant women. And just because their audience is in a "delicate condition" doesn't mean they'll deliver a gentle message. As they did with Skinny Bitch,

The Nursing Mother's Companion

Kathleen Huggins · 240 pages

Heart and Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth

Elizabeth Davis · 287 pages

This manual for lay midwives includes chapters on prenatal care; problems in pregnancy, labor, and birth; and postpartum care.

The Wisdom of Menopause: Creating Physical and Emotional Health During the Change

Christiane Northrup · 745 pages

The Care and Keeping of You 1: The Body Book for Younger Girls, Revised Edition

Valorie Schaefer · 104 pages

This is a wonderful tool for developing girls going through "that" stage

What's Up Down There?: Questions You'd Only Ask Your Gynecologist If She Was Your Best Friend

Lissa Rankin · 381 pages

An informative and yet light-hearted look at various issues related to women's health.

The Official We Do Not Care Club Handbook: A Hot-Mess Guide for Women in Perimenopause, Menopause, and Beyond Who Are Over It

Melani Sanders

The New Perimenopause: An Evidence-Based Guide to Surviving the Zone of Chaos and Feeling Like Yourself Again

Mary Claire Haver

**The #1 *New York Times* bestselling author of *The New Menopause* explains everything a woman needs to know to thrive during the often-misdiagnosed and medically ignored perimenopausal years** *I’m just not feeling like myself!* This is the battle cry of the perimenopausal woman. Though menstrual cycle changes and the emotional rollercoaster that accompanies them are the hallmarks of the t