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Homebirth Resources

How we birth matters and has life-long ramifications inspiring or undermining our confidence and sense of competence. 

It contributes significantly to our understanding of ourselves as women and as mothers.  How a child is born sets the stage for his or her life with us, and influences physical and emotional health and well-being.

May these resources help you to choose, with care, how you birth.
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Articles & Guides

  • Embracing Your Labor: Creating a Nurturing Birth Environment (by Judy Luce)
  • Womancare Home Midwifery Birth Supply List 
  • Eating Safely During Pregnancy, Journal of MIdwifery & Women's Health

Suggested Reading for Pregnancy & Birth

I have many of these resources at my Berkeley home office, which clients are welcome to borrow.

  • Ina May’s Guide to Natural Childbirth, Ina May Gaskin
  • Adventures in Natural Childbirth: Tales of Women on the Joys, Fears, Pleasures and Pains of Giving Birth Naturally, Janet Schwegel and Pam England
  • Journey into Motherhood: Inspirational Stories of Natural Birth, Sheri L. Menelli
  • Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives: A Holistic Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth, Deepak Chopra and David Simon, M.D.
  • Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful, Gurmukh (with a forward by Cindy Crawford)
  • The Official Lamaze Guide: Giving Birth With Confidence, Judith Lothian and Charlotte DeVries
  • Gentle Birth Choices, Barbara Harper
  • The Birth Book, William Sears and Martha Sears
  • Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May Gaskin
  • Natural Pregnancy Care, Aviva Jill Romm
  • Birth Reborn, Michel Odent
  • Homebirth, Sheila Kitzinger
  • Women Giving Birth, Rees, Limburg and Smulder
  • Hearts Open Wide, Wellish and Root
  • Seasons of Change, Suzanne Arms
  • Giving Birth, Sheila Kitzinger
  • Rediscovering Birth, Sheila Kitzinger
  • Childbirth Without Fear, Grantly Dick-Read
  • Active Birth, Janet Balaskas
  • Touching: On the Human Significance of Skin, Ashley Montague
  • Preparing for Birth with Yoga, Janet Balaskas
  • Birthing from Within, Pam England (selected chapters)

Suggested Reading for Breastfeeding & Early Parenting

  • Bestfeeding: Getting Breastfeeding Right for You, Renfrew, Fisher and Arms 
  • Breastfeeding Your Baby, Sheila Kitzinger
  • The Year After Childbirth, Sheila Kitzinger
  • The Happiest Baby on the Block, Dr. Harvey Karp (video)
  • The Post-Pregnancy Handbook, Sylvia Brown
  • Natural Health After Birth, and Naturally Healthy Babies and Children, Aviva Jill Romm
  • The Natural Baby, Janet Balaskas
  • The Baby Book: Everything you Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Two, Sears & Sears
  • After the Baby’s Birth: A Complete Guide for the Postpartum Woman, Robin Lim
  • Heading Home with your Newborn: From Birth to Reality, 2nd ed., Laura A. Jana and Jennifer Shu

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