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Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood

10 best books like Having Faith: An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood (Sandra Steingraber): Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood, Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent, Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story, Heart & Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy & Birth, Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta, Lady's Hands, Lion's Heart- A Midwife's Saga, Listen to Me Good: The Story of an Alabama Midwife (Women & Health C&S Perspective), Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene

Rad Dad: Dispatches from the Frontiers of Fatherhood
AuthorTomas Moniz
ISBN1604864818
Combining the best of the award-winning magazine Rad Dad and the Daddy Dialectic blog, this compilation features the best essays written for fathers by a multitude of dads from different walks of life. Bestselling authors, writers, musicians, and others collaborate on this collection that focuses...
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
AuthorPeggy Vincent
ISBN0743219341
An inspiring collection of birth stories by a charming midwife.

Each time she knelt to “catch” another wriggling baby—nearly three thousand times during her remarkable career—California midwife Peggy Vincent paid homage to the moment when pain bows to joy and the world makes way...
Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent
AuthorMeredith Small
ISBN0385483627
New parents are faced with innumerable decisions to make regarding the best way to care for their baby, and, naturally, they often turn for guidance to friends and family members who have already raised children. But as scientists are discovering, much of the trusted advice that has been passed down...
Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
AuthorJennifer Block
ISBN0738210730
In the United States, more than half the women who give birth are given drugs to induce or speed up labor; for nearly a third of mothers, childbirth is major surgery - the cesarean section. For women who want an alternative, choice is often unavailable: Midwives are sometimes inaccessible; in eleven...
Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story
AuthorTheo Colborn
ISBN0452274141
"A critically important book that forces us to ask new questions about the synthetic chemicals that we have spread across this earth."--former vice president Al Gore, author of An Inconvenient Truth

Our Stolen Future examines the ways that certain synthetic chemicals interfere with hormonal...
Heart & Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy & Birth
AuthorElizabeth Davis
ISBN1587612216
The terrible labor and delivery of my first child was dismal, due to the barbaric idiocy of the obstetric teaching and methods in this country. Take a woman who's in labor, lay her on her back, occluding the femoral artery and cutting off blood flow. Stop labor by using gravity against her body. Inject...
Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta
AuthorIna May Gaskin
ISBN1583229272
Renowned for her practice's exemplary results and low intervention rates, Ina May Gaskin has gained international notoriety for promoting natural birth. She is a much-beloved leader of a movement that seeks to stop the hyper-medicalization of birth—which has lead to nearly a third of hospital...
Lady's Hands, Lion's Heart- A Midwife's Saga
AuthorCarol Leonard
ISBN0615195504

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Crystal's story brings up the issue of abortion, which most midwives try to avoid like the plague. No professional midwifery organization to date (copyright 2008) has adopted an official position on the abortion debate, preferring to ignore it in the hope that it will go away....
Listen to Me Good: The Story of an Alabama Midwife (Women & Health C&S Perspective)
AuthorMargaret Charles Smith
ISBN0814207014
Margaret Charles Smith, a ninety-one-year-old Alabama midwife, has thousands of birthing stories to tell. Sifting through nearly five decades of providing care for women in rural Greene County, she relates the tales that capture the life-and-death struggle of the birthing experience and the traditions,...
Diaper Free: The Gentle Wisdom of Natural Infant Hygiene
AuthorIngrid Bauer
ISBN0452287774
Most new parents think of diapers as a smelly, expensive, and unavoidable necessity. The good news is that it’s possible—even practical—to raise your kids without diapers. In Diaper Free!, Ingrid Bauer shows how you can: * Save thousands of dollars * Reduce landfill waste (single-use disposable...
The Healthiest Kid in the Neighborhood: Ten Ways to Get Your Family on the Right Nutritional Track
AuthorWilliam Sears
ISBN0316060127
My family and I eat a whole foods, plant-based diet (WFPB), so I started this book knowing I probably wouldn't agree with quite a bit of the nutritional advice. What I was looking for was more ideas on how to steer my children to healthy eating. I was rewarded! We will forevermore refer to good foods as "grow...
Natural Family Living: The Mothering Magazine Guide to Parenting
AuthorPeggy O'Mara
ISBN0671027441
At times I wanted to give this book five stars; at times I wanted to give it two. There is a lot of great information in this book about a wide range of parenting issues (e.g., childbirth, nighttime parenting, breastfeeding, entertainment, communication, discipline, circumcision, school, etc.)....
Becoming the Parent You Want To Be
AuthorLaura Davis
ISBN0553067508
Informative, inspiring, and enlightening, Becoming the Parent You Want to Be provides parents with the building blocks they need to discover their own parenting philosophy and develop effective parenting strategies.  Through in-depth information, practical suggestions, and many lively...
Mothering Your Nursing Toddler
AuthorNorma Jane Bumgarner
ISBN0912500522
This book didn't give me as much as I'd hoped for in terms of helpful, practical advice for nursing a toddler—when it came down to it, most of her advice was either stuff I'd already figured out for myself (nursing a 19-month-old, here) or stuff that didn't directly apply to my situation (for instance,...
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The Wisdom and Science of Gentle Choices in Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting
AuthorSarah J. Buckley
ISBN0975807706
An authoritative guide to natural childbirth and postpartum parenting options from an MD who home-birthed her own four children.

Sarah Buckley might be called a third-wave natural birth advocate. A doctor and a mother, she approaches the question of how a woman and baby might have the most...
Birth and Breastfeeding: Rediscovering the Needs of Women During Pregnancy and Childbirth
AuthorMichel Odent
ISBN1902636481
At a time when pleas for the ?humanization? of childbirth are fashionable, the author suggests, rather, that we should first accept our ?mammalian? condition and give priority to the woman's need for privacy and to feel secure. The activity of the intellect, the use of language, and many cultural beliefs...
Waiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family
AuthorCatherine Newman
ISBN0143034774
To fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of Bringing Up Ben & Birdy, a weekly column on babycenter.com. Now in the delightfully candid, outlandishly funny Waiting for Birdy, Newman charts the year she anticipated the birth of her second child while also coping with the...
Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Infants and Children
AuthorJanet Zand
ISBN1583331395
Safe and effective relief of common childhood disorders using nutritional supplements, herbs, homeopathy, acupressure, diet, and conventional medicine."A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Natural and Conventional Treatments for Infants & Children"Revised, updated, and expanded to reflect...
The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers : The Most Comprehensive Problem-Solution Guide to Breastfeeding from the Foremost Expert in North America
AuthorJack Newman
ISBN0761529969
An Amazing Resource for Nursing Moms

Although breastfeeding is the natural and healthy way to nourish your baby, it’s not always easy. Many new mothers are scared away from nursing because of difficulty getting started and lack of information about what to do when things don’t go as planned....
Celebrating the Great Mother: A Handbook of Earth-Honoring Activities for Parents and Children
AuthorCait Johnson
ISBN0892815507
Adults have a wide array of books to help explore earth-based spirituality. But what if they want to include their children? Here is a handbook to help parents, caregivers, teachers, and counselors create meaningful spiritual experiences that will inspire children of all ages. The ideas, suggestions,...
Girls Who Looked Under Rocks: The Lives of Six Pioneering Naturalists
AuthorJeannine Atkins
ISBN1584690119
I have 6 new heroes. I have heard several of these names before, but I hadn't read much about any but Jane Goodall before this book. These women were pioneers in life because they didn't let other people limit them or tell them what was an appropriate topic for little girls to be interested. The real heroes...
Minu Ameerika 2. Ülestähendusi unelmatemaalt 2003-2007 (Minu..., # 2)
AuthorEpp Petrone
Minu "Minu" sarja edetabeli teisel kohal platseervuv raamat.(Esimesel on Minu Eesti) Pean kahjuks tõdema, et esimest Minu Ameerika osa pole veel kätte saanud, sest tõepoolest raamatukogust on Minu sarjale üsnagi pikad järjekorrad. Raamat on huvitav ja samas on esimest viimase leheni suunurgad...
Minu Eesti. Mida sa tahad? 2.osa
AuthorJustin Petrone
Oli 2003. aasta. Põhjamaa serval pesitsevas väikeses Eestis puhusid muutuste tuuled: tuli otsustada, kas liituda Euroopa rahvastega. Kohale oli jõudnud ka tarbimishulluse ja kinnisvarapalaviku torm. Skandinaavia rahameeste toel tõotas see tõmmata lina üle sotsialistliku majanduse...
Birth as an American Rite of Passage
AuthorRobbie Davis-Floyd
ISBN0520229320
Why do so many American women allow themselves to become enmeshed in the standardized routines of technocratic childbirth--routines that can be insensitive, unnecessary, and even unhealthy? Anthropologist Robbie Davis-Floyd first addressed these questions in the 1992 edition. Her new preface...
The Politics of Breastfeeding: When Breasts Are Bad for Business
AuthorGabrielle Palmer
As revealing as Freakonomics, shocking as Fast Food Nationand thought provoking as No Logo, The Politics of Breastfeeding exposes infant feeding as one of the most important public health issues of our time.
Every thirty seconds a baby dies from infections due to a lack of breastfeeding and the...
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