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 Teasdill

• 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

• Gentle birth, Gentle mothering by Sarah J. Buckley

Postnatal

• 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

• Baby Massage books by Peter Walker recommended

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
  

• Doula UK. "Doula" (pronounced "doola") is a Greek word meaning "woman servant or caregiver". It now refers to an experienced woman who offers emotional and practical support to a woman (or couple) before, during and after childbirth.
  www.doula.org.uk
  

• London Acupuncture Childbirth Team. There is an ever growing awareness of the benefits that acupuncture can bring to fertility, pregnancy and childbirth, and this site is here to introduce more about these benefits and to help you to easily find acupuncture practitioners in your own locality.
  www.actlondon.co.uk
  

• Nature Child. AFN & ACT are professional special interest groups for acupuncturists interested in treating in Obstetrics and Fertility.
  www.naturechild.co.uk
  

• Craniosacral Therapy is attracting increasing interest for its gentle yet effective approach, working directly with the body's natural capacity for self-repair to treat a wide range of conditions.
  www.craniosacral.co.uk
  

• Nurturing Birth has been training doulas since 2005. Our course is Recognised/Accredited with Doula UK. Our trainers are all working doulas with many years of experience supporting hundreds of families between them.
  www.nurturingbirth.co.uk
  

• Yoga Scotland is recognised by sportscotland as the Governing Body for Yoga in Scotland. It has a network of around 300 qualified, registered and insured teachers.
  www.yogascotland.org.uk
  

• Katie Harvey Coaching has been coaching since 2002.
  www.katieharveycoaching.co.uk
  

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