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The Natural Pregnancy Book: Herbs, Nutrition, and Other Holistic Choices

10 best books like The Natural Pregnancy Book: Herbs, Nutrition, and Other Holistic Choices (Aviva Romm): Ina May's Guide to Childbirth, Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding, What to Expect When You're Expecting, Spiritual Midwifery, More Than a Mistress, Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife, You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth, The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More, The Doula Book: How A Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have A Shorter, Easier, And Healthier Birth

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
AuthorIna May Gaskin
ISBN0553381156
What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you.

Drawing upon her thirty-plus years of experience, Ina May Gaskin, the nation’s leading midwife, shares the benefits and joys of natural childbirth by showing women how to trust in the ancient wisdom of their bodies for a healthy...
Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding
AuthorIna May Gaskin
ISBN0553384295
Everything you need to know to make breastfeeding a joyful, natural, and richly fulfilling experience for both you and your baby

Drawing on her decades of experience in caring for pregnant women, mothers, and babies, Ina May Gaskin explores the health and psychological benefits of breastfeeding...
What to Expect When You're Expecting
AuthorHeidi Murkoff
ISBN0761121323
I seem to disagree with most of the reviews of this book.

This book got me through my pregnancy. Period.

I wasn't overwhelmed by the amount of information; instead I found it to be the only friendly, comforting book out there. While other books were telling me that if I'd had a glass of...
Spiritual Midwifery
AuthorIna May Gaskin
ISBN1570671044
Here is the 4th edition of the classic book on home birth that introduced a whole generation of women to the concept of natural childbirth. Back again are even more amazing birthing tales, including those from women who were babies in earlier editions and stories about Old Order Amish women attended...
More Than a Mistress
AuthorMary Balogh
An arrogant duke does the unthinkable-he falls in love with his mistress.
She raced onto the green, desperate to stop a duel. In the melee, Jocelyn Dudley, Duke of Tresham, was shot. To his astonishment, Tresham found himself hiring the servant as his nurse. Jane Ingleby was far too bold for her own...
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...
You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth
AuthorJen Sincero
ISBN0735222975
“A cheerful manifesto on removing obstacles between yourself and the income of your dreams.” —New York Magazine

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass, a life-changing guide to making the kind of money you’ve only ever dreamed of

You Are a Badass...
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century
AuthorSteven Pinker
ISBN0670025852
A short and entertaining book on the modern art of writing well by New York Times bestselling author Steven Pinker
Why is so much writing so bad, and how can we make it better? Is the English language being corrupted by texting and social media? Do the kids today even care about good writing? Why should...
Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
AuthorMorten T. Hansen
ISBN1476765626
Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller
A Financial Times Business Book of the Month
Named by The Washington Post as One of the 11 Leadership Books to Read in 2018

From the New York Times bestselling coauthor of Great by Choice comes an authoritative, practical guide to individual...
The Doula Book: How A Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have A Shorter, Easier, And Healthier Birth
AuthorJohn H. Kennell
ISBN0738206091
More and more parents-to-be all over the world are choosing the comfort and reassuring support of birth with a trained labor companion called a "doula." This warm, authoritative, and irreplaceable guide completely updates the authors' earlier book, Mothering the Mother, and adds much new and important...
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...
Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation
AuthorPam England
ISBN0965987302
Here is a holistic approach to childbirth that examines this profound rite-of-passage not as a medical event but as an act of self-discovery. Exercises and activities such as journal writing, meditation, and painting will help mothers analyze their thoughts and face their fears during pregnancy....
The Hypnobirthing Book
AuthorKatharine Graves
ISBN0957144504
The Hypnobirthing Book is a complete antenatal preparation which guides you to achieve the birth you want.

Childbirth can be an empowering and positive experience that you treasure for the rest of your life. Hypnobirthing teaches simple and gentle techniques that have a profound effect.

By...
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...
The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth (Revised)
AuthorSheila Kitzinger
ISBN0375710477
This new edition of The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth has been extensively revised to reflect scientific advances and cultural trends. Here, candidly and reasonably presented, is all the information expectant parents need to make their own decisions about everything--from which tests...
The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
AuthorHenci Goer
ISBN0399525173
As an intelligent woman, you are probably used to learning as much as you can before making major decisions. But when it comes to one of the most important decisions of your life--how you will give birth—it is hard to gather accurate, unbiased information. Surprisingly, much of the research does not...
Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond
AuthorNancy Bardacke
With Mindful Birthing, Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovative program for pregnancy, childbirth, and beyond. Drawing on groundbreaking research in neuroscience, mindfulness meditation, and mind/body medicine, Bardacke offers practices that will...
Immaculate Deception II: Myth, Magic and Birth
AuthorSuzanne Arms
ISBN0890876339
Published in 1994 (it seems to have also been published in 1997 with a different subtitle, but the copy I read was from ’94), this book is out of date in some respects; however, much of the information it contains is timeless. I would be interested to see what an updated version would say (this is itself...
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...
Gentle Birth Choices
AuthorBarbara Harper
ISBN1594770670
Birth as every woman would like it to be

• Recommended by Lamaze International as one of the top ten books for pregnant women and their families

• Includes a 45-minute DVD of six live gentle births

• More than 32,000 copies sold of the original edition

New parents...
Active Birth : The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally
AuthorJanet Balaskas
ISBN1558320385
Janet Balaskas led a movement of women who refused to give birth lying down. She has been teaching women about "active birth" ever since. In this updated and Americanized guide, Balaskas explains how to prepare for and experience a truly natural birth. She leads the pregnant woman through yoga-based...
Holistic Midwifery : Care During Pregnancy Vol. 1
AuthorAnne Frye
This text is the first of three volumes (two of which have been published) covering all aspects of midwifery care during pregnancy and childbirth and of the mother and baby after birth.
This volume discusses care from conception until the onset of labor. Topics include basic female anatomy and...
The Birth Partner
AuthorPenny Simkin
ISBN1558321950
This is a really fantastic resource for any person in a supportive role to a pregnant woman.

The book goes into explicit but easily digestible detail of pregnancy, different types of labor, the types of support one can offer in labor, what you'll encounter in a home birth vs a hospital birth,...
Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth
AuthorGrantly Dick-Read
ISBN0953096467
Although "Childbirth Without Fear" is a catchy title, I think a more accurate title would have been "Childbirth Without Ignorance." The basic gist is that the more a mother knows about the mechanics of childbirth, the more she is able to relax and break the fear-tension-pain cycle that leads to [in Dick-Read's...
Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way
AuthorSusan McCutcheon
ISBN9780525537
The classic guide to an unmedicated childbirth, fully revised in 2018 for the twenty-first century, with updated information and attractive new illustrations and photos throughout. For women birthing vaginally, 90% of Bradley births are drug-free!

The Bradley Method® used and praised...
What to Expect Before You're Expecting
AuthorHeidi Murkoff
Announcing the prequel. From Heidi Murkoff, author of America's bestselling pregnancy and parenting books, comes the must-have guide every expectant couple needs before they even conceive—the first step in What to Expect: What to Expect Before You're Expecting.

An estimated 11 million...
What to Expect: Eating Well When You're Expecting
AuthorHeidi Murkoff
ISBN0761133267
Expect to eat well and find answers to all your questions.
The thought of a salad makes me green, and I’m craving burgers 24/7. What should I do?
I never have time to cook—how can I eat well on the run?
Can I still have sushi? And what’s this I hear about tuna?
How much weight should...
Homebirth in the Hospital: Integrating Natural Childbirth with Modern Medicine
AuthorStacey Marie Kerr
ISBN1591810779
This was pretty disappointing. I thought it would be how to have a completely natural birth in a hospital setting. It wasn't. It was how to integrate medicine with as natural a birth as possible. The author believes in natural childbirth, but of the many birth stories in this book, I don't think any of the...
Once a Soldier
AuthorMary Jo Putney
ISBN1420140922
Rogues Redeemed

As heir to a title and great wealth, Will Masterson should have stayed home and tended his responsibilities. Instead he went to war. Now, after perilous years fighting the French, he intends his current mission to be his last. But all his plans are forgotten when he arrives in...
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