Reading List

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Download What Every Pregnant Woman Needs to Know About Cesarean Section.

Required for Labor Assistant Certification:

ALACE Labor Assistant Training Manual - Resources/Articles section
Nursing Mother's Companion (Huggins) or Bestfeeding (Renfrew, Fisher, Arms)
Birth As An American Rite of Passage – Robbie Davis-Floyd
The Birth Partner – Penny Simkin
The Complete Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth – Shelia Kitzinger
Heart and Hands – Elizabeth Davis
The VBAC Companion – Diana Korte or Birth After Cesarean – Bruce Flamm
What Every Pregnant Woman Needs to Know About Cesarean Section – www.chilbirthconnections.org
Mothering the New Mother - Placksin
*Obstetric Myths vs. Research Realities – Henci Goer or A Guide to Effective Care in
Pregnancy and Childbirth-Enkin, Keirse & Chalmers
*Understanding Diagnostic Tests in the Childbearing Year -Frye

*These last books are required for reference purposes. Although you are not expected to read each book from cover to cover, we do require that you be familiar with their layout and content and strongly encourage you to own or ensure access to a copy once you begin your practice.

Strongly Recommended:

Active Birth – Janet Balaskas
After Baby's Birth: A Women's Way to Wellness –Robin Lim
Babies Remember Birth – David Chamberlain
The Birth Book – Bill and Martha Sears
Birthing From Within – Pam England
Cesarean – Michel Odent
Ended Beginnings – Claudia Panuthos and Cathy Romeo
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth – Ina May Gaskin
Journey Into Motherhood – Sherri Menelli
Spiritual Midwifery – Ina May Gaskin
Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth – Henci Goer
Wise Woman’s Herbal for the Childbearing Year – Susun Weed
Silent Knife –Nancy Wainer (Cohen)

Recommended Reference:

Getting To Yes - Fisher and Ury
Human Labor and Birth - Oxorn and Foote
The Doula Book - Klaus, Kennell and Klaus
Nurse-Midwifery - Varney