Recommended Resources for Pregnancy, Childbirth and Afterwards:

• Birth & Beyond by Dr. Yehudi Gordon The Definitive Guide to Your Pregnancy, Your Birth, Your Family: From Minus 9 to Plus 9 months. This provides balanced all round information. Up to date on exercise, technical facts, shows awareness of the emotional side of pregnancy birth and beyond.

• New Active Birth by Janet Balaskas.

• Yoga for Pregnancy by Wendy Teasdale

• Preparing for birth with Yoga by Janet Balaskas

• Complete Book of Pregnancy NCT/Daphne Maitland .

• Birth Without Violence by Frederick Leboyer. Even though much has changed since this was written it is still relevant. Leboyer introduced awareness of the baby's experience of the birth.

• Wild Child: Wisdom and Traditions for Pregnancy, Birth and Motherhood.

• The Encyclopaedia of Pregnancy & Birth by Janet Balaskas & Yehudi Gordon.

• Alternative Therapies for Pregnancy & Birth by Pat Thomas. Well researched with some information for everyone.

• The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin

• Easy Exercises for Pregnancy by Janet Balaskas

• Birthing from Within By Pam England and Rob Horowitz

• Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin

• Birth Reborn by Michel Odent

Post Natal

• Bestfeeding By Mary Renfrew, Chloe Fisher and Suzanne Arms – the definitive guide to breastfeeding.

• The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding, La Leche League. Deals with getting started and the long term with breastfeeding. Chatty in style.

• What Mothers Do –especially when it looks like nothing by Naomi Stadlen

• Baby Yoga by Francoise Barbira Freedman

• No Cry Sleep Solution by Elisabeth Pantely. Ideas to help parents help babies to find their own way of sleeping without imposing an adult-centered routine

• The Social Baby by Lynne Murray and Liz Andrews

Children

• Saying No, Why its important for you and your child by Asha Philips.

• How to talk so kids will listen and listen so kids will talk by Adele Faber, Elaine Mazlish.

• Raising Boys: Why boys are different - and how to help them to become happy and well balanced men by Steve Biddulph.

Yoga - general

• Awakening the Spine by Vanda Scaravelli

• Breath: the essence of Yoga by Sandra Sabatini

Useful Organisations & Websites

• AIMS (Association for the improvement in maternity services) Publications of booklets and books on some controversial aspects of childbirth.
  www.aims.org.uk
  0870 765 1433.
  

• NCT (National Childbirth Trust) publish and supply a very good range of books and leaflets covering pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding and parenthood.
  www.nct.org.uk
  0870 112 1120.
  

• MIDIRS (Midwives Information and Resource Service), The Informed Choice Leaflets on-line. www.midirs.org
  0800 581009
  

• BirthChoice
  www.BirthChoiceUK.com
  

• Association of Radical Midwives. The archives give you a lot of information about pregnancy and birth.
  www.radmid.demon.co.uk
  

• Fathers To Be. Today’s fathers are participating more personally than ever before in the birth and upbringing of their children. This can have a strong impact on the family.
  www.fatherstobe.org

 

 

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