Baby Catcher

[surprisedmama]

I just finished reading Baby Catcher what a great book! Any other book suggestions that have to do with pregnancy and birth that is not a week by week or technical text book?

[Cinder]

I also loved baby catcher!

Disclaimer, I read a lot, and I enjoy books that I don't agree with if they are funny or well written..

Skinny Bitch, Bun in the Oven...umm, I will NEVER become vegan, but it has funny parts!

Girlfriends guide to pregnancy, the first year, toddlers.... They are funny.

Belly laughs- yes, she says negative things about not circumcisizing, and there is no real information, but it is a quick light read!

[ChristinaandOllie]

LOL, it's so funny what other crunchy moms can get over and I can't. I hated girlfriends guide because it was just so negative towards anyone who wanted to birth without meds, sleep with their baby and breastfeeding was really really downplayed. I was pissed when I finished reading it. Same with Jenny McCarthy, she didn't even try to breastfeed. She is kinda funny, but that girl leaves me so torn!

[mamaw/two]

I read Jenny McCarthy's book during my last pregnancy and it was mostly funny, up until the end...then it was just sad. One book that I highly recommend is Ina May's Guide to Childbirth. The birth stories in the beginning are very uplifting and I learned so much from the second section.

[emmaloo]

Im reading Jenny's book right now and its hilarious!! I might not agree with every thing she does but its not often I am laughing out loud for my entire metro ride!

Have you read the Red Tent? Its fiction but its all about births. If you tend to get nervous about things I might skip it though because it not all happy ending births.

[~Katie~]

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth is great for the birth stories, also some other good info in there. So That's What They're For is a really good, down to Earth breastfeeding book. I think she does an awesome job of appealing to a really wide audience in order to encourage breastfeeding. I think most of the funny reads tend to be too mainstream for my tastes. I'm not a Bradley person but the Bradley Guide to Childbirth is pretty awesome at explaining the mechanics of labor and birth in a way you can really understand, also has some good birth stories.

[annettemarie]

Moving to the Books forum

[Cuddlebaby]

totally agree with Red Tent, tis the only fiction book I have read and read....amazing.

also totally agree with ina may and baby catcher....would NEVER read a negative book wrt to pregnancy if I was pregnant. need to keep happy, positive vibes going on in pregnancy

Still haven't finished Pushed by Jennifer Block so can't recommend as of yet....but you may consider it.

[BrooklynDoula]

Very similar to Baby Catcher (but even better ino) is A Midwife's Story by Penny Armstrong and Sheryl Feldman. This is a terrific book.

[WeasleyMum]

I really like Baby Catcher, its such a great mix of one personal journey, and all the birth stories. I'm not sure I'd reccommend it to someone currently pregnant, though, just because there are a few births that are disturbing-- it's not just the happy ones. At least for me, that stuff really bothers me when I'm pregnant.

I would reccommend Our Babies, Ourselves as a non-instructional book about parenting. It's basically, "how we were meant as a species to parent, how other cultures around the world parent their babies."

[zinemama]

Seconding Our Babies, Ourselves and The Red Tent.

A good novel about a midwife is The Birth House, which came out a couple of years ago.

I really enjoyed Baby Catcher while I was pregnant. I don't mind reading about bad outcomes while pregnant, though. I also enjoyed Baby ER, in which a journalist followed a group of babies, parents and doctors through the NICU. I'm not very sensitive about that kind of thing and I found it fascinating.

[Schrody]

Louise Erdrich's The Blue Jay's Dance is a lovely year-long birth journal which covers a lot of topics in addition to pregnancy and childbirth.

Waiting for Birdy by Catherine Newman is a really funny account of her pregnancy with her second child. Her descriptions of her toddler son are so sweet, touching and hilarious.

[quantumleap]

I'll second "The Birth House" (Ami McKay), which is an awesome book. I've read it more than once, actually, which is my evaluation tool for really good stories.