Pregnancy Books
Recommended Reading
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn, Revised and Updated: The
Complete Guide
by Penny Simkin, Janet Whalley, Ann Keppler
The Birth Partner, Everything You Need To Know To Help a Woman
Through Childbirth,
Third Edition by Penny Simkin
Childbirth Without Fear
by Grantly Dick-Read
Journey into Motherhood
by Sheri Menelli.
This book is recommended by one of my birthing moms: "This book
was wonderful for me to read. In fact, I checked it out from the
library several times to reread it as often as I could. It has stories of
women who had unmedicated births, sometimes even unassisted
home births. It doesn't have anything to do with education about
labor and delivery, just story after story about real women who really
accomplished unmedicated births. It really helped alleviate the fear
factor by showing me many different types of women who really did
it".