Book List Recs

Doula

• • Doula Programs - Paulina Perez

  • The Doula Advantage: Your Complete Guide to Having an Empowered and Positive Birth with the Help of a Professional Childbirth Assistant - Rachel Gurevich

  • Women of Color and the Reproductive Rights Movement

  • Killing the Black Body - Dorothy Roberts

  • Labor Progress Handbook, 2nd Edition - Penny Simkin

  • Special Women: The Role of the Professional Labor Assistant - Paulina Perez

  • The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth - Marshall H., M.D. Klaus

  • The Birth Partner, Second Edition - Penny Simkin

  • Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth - Edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D Bonaparte

  • Reproducing Race: an Ethnography of Pregnancy as a Site of Racialization - Khiara M. Bridges

  • A Clinician's Guid to Gender Affirming Care: Working with Transgender & Gender Noncomforing Clients - Sand C Chang PhD, Anneliese A Singh PhD LPC, lore m. dickey PhD

  • Birthwork as Care Work: Stories from Activist Birth Communities - Edited by Silvia Federici

  • Radical Reproductive Justice: Foundations | Theory | Practice | Critique - Edited by Loretta Ross, Lynn Roberts, Erika Derkas, Whitney Peoples, and Pamela Bridgewater

  • Motherwit: and Alabama Midwife's Story - Onnie Lee Logan as Told by Katherine Clark

  • Granny Midwives and Black Women Writers

  • Primal Health: Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday - Michel Odent

PreConception

• • Pregnancy the Natural Way - Zita West

  • The Scientification of Love - Michel Odent

  • The Doula's Radical Care for Pregnant People - Mary Mahoney and Lauren Mitchell 

  • Ina May's Guide to Childbirth - Ina May Gaskin

Pre/Antenatal

• • Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The Wisdom and Science of Gentle Choices in Pregnancy, Birth and Parenting- Dr Sarah J Buckley

  • Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation - Pam England

  • A Good Birth, A Safe Birth : Choosing and Having the Childbirth Experience You Want, Third Revised Edition by Diana Korte

  • When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women - Penny Simkin PT and Phylis Klaus MFT

  • The Natural Pregnancy Book: Herbs, Nutrition, and Other Holistic Choices - Aviva Jill Romm

Birth

• • Laboring Positions: Black Women, Mothering, and the Academy - Sekile Nzinga-Johnson

  • The Nurturing Touch at Birth: A Labor Support Handbook - Paulina Perez

  • Birth Balls: Use of Physical Therapy Balls in Maternity Care - Paulina Perez

  • The Cesearean - Michel Odent

  • Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (VBAC) - Nancy Wainer Cohen

  • Birth after Cesarean: The Medical Facts - Dr. Bruce Flamm

  • Red Medicine: Traditional Indigenous Rites of Birthing and Healing - Patrisia Gonzales

  • Natural Birth After Cesarean: A Practical Guide - Johanne C. Walters , Karis Crawford

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

  • Vaginal Birth After Cesarean: The Smart Woman's Guide to VBAC - Elizabeth Kaufmann

Placenta

• • Materia Medica on Traditional Chinese Medicine ( 中药学; 中藥學; Zhōngyào xué) - Li Shizhen

  • Placenta the Forgotten Chakra - Robin Lim

Postpartum

• • A Taste of Our Own Medicine - Danett C. Beam, DAAM

  • Revolutionary MotheringL Loe on the Front Lines - Edited by Alexis Pauling Gumbs, China martens, and Mai'a Williams

  • Where's the Mother? Stories from a Transgender Dad - Trevor MacDonald 

  • Naturally Healthy Babies and Children: A Commonsense Guide to Herbal Remedies, Nutrition, and Health - Aviva Jill Romm

  • Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide: How to Make Safe, Sensible Decisions about the Risks, Benefits, and Alternatives - Aviva Jill Romm

  • After the Baby’s Birth, 2nd ed. – Robin Lim

  • Natural Health after Birth: The Complete Guide to Postpartum Wellness – Aviva Jill Romm

  • Three in a Bed: The Benefits of Sharing Your Bed With Your Baby - Deborah Jackson

Breast/Chestfeed

• • The Big Letdown: How Medicine, Big Business, and Feminsim Undermine Breastfeeding - Kimberly Seals Allers

  • The Black Woman's Guide to Breastfeeding: the Definitive Guide to Nursing for African American Mothrers - Katherine Barber

  • The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding - La Leche League International

  • Breastfeeding Special Care Babies - Sandra Lang

  • The Breastfeeding Book: Everything You Need to Know About Nursing Your Child from Birth through Weaning - William and Martha Sears

  • Bestfeeding, 2nd ed. – Suzanne Arms, Chloe Renfew

Child Loss

• • Empty Arms: Hope and Support for Those Who Have Suffered a Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Tubal Pregnancy - Pam Vredevelt

  • The Bereaved Parent - Harriet Sarnoff Schiff