links and resources
American College of Nurse Midwives
Association For Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health
Birthing The Future
Birthworks
Childbirth Connection
Childbirth and Postpartum Professional Association
Choices in Childbirth
Citizens for Midwifery
Coalition For Improving Maternity Services
Doulas of North America
Dr. Davis-Floyd
Dr. Jack Newman
Dr. Sears
Henci Goer
Hypnobabies
Hypnobirthing
International Cesarean Awareness Network (ICAN)
International Childbirth Education Association (ICEA)
Ina May Gaskin
La Leche League
Midwives Alliance of North America (MANA)
Midwifery Today
Mothering Magazine
Penny Simkin
Sheila Kitzinger
Spinning Babies
Book List
- Birth As an American Rite of Passage, by Robbie E. Davis-Floyd, University
of California Press, 1992.
- Birth In The USA How A Broken Maternity System Must Be Fixed To Put Women and Children First, by
Marsden Wagner, M.D., M.S., University of California Press, 2006.
- Birthing From Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation,
by Pam England and Rob Horowitz, Partera Press, 1998.
- Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Year: A Guide To Health and Comfort
Before and After Your Baby is Born, 3rd Revised Edition, by Elizabeth Noble,
Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
- Gentle Birth Choices. A Guide to Making Informed Decisions About: Birthing
Centers, Birth Attendants, Water Birth, Home Birth, Hospital Birth, by Barbara
Harper, RN, Healing Arts Press, 1994.
- Hypnobirthing: The Mongan Method: A Natural Approach to a Safe, Easier, More Comfortable Birthing
(3rd Edition) by Marie F. Mongan, Health Communications, 2005.
- Immaculate Deception II: Myth, Magic & Birth, by Suzanne
Arms, Celestial Arts, 1994.
- Ina May's Guide To Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin, Bantam, 2003.
- Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn, Revised and Updated: The Complete
Guide, by Penny Simkin, Meadowbrook Press, 2001.
- The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth (Revised), Sheila Kitzinger, Knopf, 1996.
- The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth, by Henci Goer, Perigee Book,
1999.
- The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers: The Most Comprehensive Problem-Solution
Guide to Breastfeeding from the Foremost Expert in North America, by Jack Newman
and Teresa Pitman, Prima Publishing, 2000.
- Water Birth. A Midwife's Perspective, by Susanna Napierala, Bergin and Garvey,
1994.
Children's Books
- Baby On The Way by William Sears, Little Brown & Co., 2001.
- We Have A Baby by Cathryn Falwell, Clarion Books, 1999.
- Welcome With Love by Julie Vivas, Kane/Miller Book Publishers, 2000.
Video List
- "Giving Birth: Challenges & Choices". 1998 Suzanne Arms. Birthing The
Future, P. O. Box 830, Durango, CO 81302, (877) BIRTHING. www.BirthingTheFuture.com
- Born In The USA by Marcia Jarmel & Ken Schneider, Patchworks Films, 663 7th Ave., San Francisco, CA 94118, 415-387-5912,
www.patchworksfilms.net
- Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Harper, RN, Healing Arts Press, 2005,
www.gentlebirthchoices.org
- The Business of Being Born by Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein, Barranca Productions, 2007,
www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com
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