What's On My Bookshelf

I love books. I love books almost as much as I love mamas and their babies.

So, what do I read? Right now I have these books on my birth shelf:

• The Birth Book
• Christian Childbirth HAndbook
• Inspired Birth
• BLS For Healthcare Providers
• A History of Medicine
• Mama, Talk About When Max Was Born - a children's book about home water birth. Beautiful!
• The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Hearts and Hands - a must-have for all midwives and midwives-in-training.
• Infant Massage
• Misconceptions
• The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
• Sacred Pregnancy - a beautiful week-by-week journal that encourages women to be introspective about their pregnancy and birth
• Birth Movement - a book on how to utilized the hospital birthing room
• Memoirs of a Singing Birth - all about Elena's birth journey in Bali
• The Pregnancy Book
• The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth
• The Friendship of Women
• Pushed - all about the history of birth and the pitfalls of modern birth medicine and politics.
• The Birth House - a fictional book about a birth worker in early 1900's. 
• Monique and The Mango Rains - a real life account of a birth worker who worked in an impoverished area of the world, and the trials and triumphs of her journey.
• The Birth Partner
• Birth Matters
• The Mother-to-Mother Postpartum Depression Support Handbook
• Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding
• The Expectant Father
• Planning Your Pregnancy and Birth, Third Edition
• The Breastfeeding Book
• Immaculate Deception
• Complete Baby and Childcare
• Pregnancy Day by Day
• Rediscovering Birth
• Grieving the child I Never Knew
• A Child is Born
• Holistic Care During Pregnancy
• Care During Pregnancy
• From Tiny-Tot to Toddler
• Birth
• The Doula Book
• The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn
• The Miraculous World of Your Unborn Baby
• Having a Baby, Naturally
• Making Baby's Book

So, in case you are in need of some reading material, you can definitely find it on my shelf! And for my review of what NOT to read, see here!