what are you reading?

[moderngal]

I pulled out my copy of Your Pregnancy Week by Week today. I forgot how pretty useless I found that one to be during my last pregnancy. :

I also started reading The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. I hadn't read that before and I so wish I had.

So, what are you reading?

[weliveintheforest]

nothing yet
but the plan is to read that one, and re read ina may gaskin's books... and then whatever else comes along I suppose
I don't want to over read and over think everything but I do love to read birth books!

[kirk_heidi]

I think I may get a VBAC book. I haven't decided yet. The CNM that I am going to see said the more informed I am the more likely I am to have the birth I want at the hospital. She said that with a birth plan it is very possible to get it all but it depends on who is on call. I should probaly read a book that talks about water birth and labor techniques too.

[mothragirl]

this time around not much. i have over 20 books left over from last time that i read over and over.

[GinaRae]

THE NATURAL PREGNANCY by Aviva Jill Romm.

[lesliesara63]

Originally Posted by moderngal

I pulled out my copy of Your Pregnancy Week by Week today. I forgot how pretty useless I found that one to be during my last pregnancy. :

I also started reading The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth. I hadn't read that before and I so wish I had.

So, what are you reading?

That is a great book! The Thinking Woman's Guide that is.

[~MoonGypsy~]

the Ina May books.

[Sihaya]

I got From Conception to Birth from the library for the pictures. (The kids I nanny wanted to know what the babe looks like right now.) I also got a copy of Oh, Baby, the Places You'll Go! to read out loud at night. I'm waiting until June when I'm done with my job to do the "heavier" reading.

[~MoonGypsy~]

I was just going through some of the stuff I threw together in our frantic move and found a bunch of new books. Yay!

I've been acquiring books that are on the BirthArts.com doula training reading list and haven't even cracked most of them. I love that some of them are more in depth too!

[Nitenites]

Originally Posted by GinaRae

THE NATURAL PREGNANCY by Aviva Jill Romm.

Is it any good? I'm reading her vax book right now, I'm kinda on the fence about it.

Moderngal, I have a copy of Your Pregnancy Week by Week, and you're right - it IS useless. Unless you plan on using it as a coaster.

[susanrc]

Just got done reading Taking Charge of you Fertility by Toni Wescheler. Great book. I learned alot that I didn't know about TTC and your monthly cycle

[Shachar613]

I also REALLY like Aviva Jill Romm's book. She has some amazing recipes in there for nourishment teas and great herbal remedies for things like nausea or anemia. I also got Janet Balaskas' Natural Pregnancy book but I'm not a huge fan.

[Quindin]

MDC posts!

[cmu204]

Birthing From Within. I, of course, had to be an overachiever and read it all in one sitting! :
Once my brain's recovered, I'll try it again at a much more sedate pace.

CM
in PDX with 2 sweet dogs & 1 DH

[Beppie]

I love to look through books with pictures of what the baby looks like in each stage. I can hardly believe there's a little person in there when I don't feel much! I like to see what it really looks like. It makes it more real.

[pixiesmommy]

Just finished Misconceptions by Naomi Wolff - it's a novel and very easy to read... well, hard to swallow a little bit because it's so honest, but a quick read.
Also read Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born by Tina Cassidy. It's also really good- tells about and shows pictures of all the torture devices (uh, I mean.... birth devices) used throughout history. I don't recommend this one if you're still queasy!!

-Manda (mommy to Pixie, 6.5 yrs old, and expecting another in Nov!)

[GSMama]

Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth by Sheila Kitzinger. I'll definitely be back into my Ina Mae books as I get farther along though, to build me up for labour!

[guest9921]

Originally Posted by GSMama

Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth by Sheila Kitzinger. I'll definitely be back into my Ina Mae books as I get farther along though, to build me up for labour!

Thats a great one.
As is the Henci Goer ThinkingWomansGuide.

I am reading those, and Birthing from within.

[DucetteMama21842]

I keep rereading my faves,

Husband Coached CHildbirth
Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way
Children at Birth
Thinking woman's guide to a better Birth
ANYTHING Ina May
The Birth Book


Virtually anything I can get my hands on..

Oh.. for a good vbac book and empowerment- "Silent Knife" is amazing as well as the ican website.

[zjande]

Gardening books & more gardening books!! Besides those though, the only birth related books I have picked up are Lennart Nilsson's book "A Child is Born" because it has all those amazing pictures of babies since they were just 1 cell. And also I flipped through my "Adventures in Tandem Nursing" book again, to remind myself what I'm in for.

My all time favorites are also anything by the glorious Ina May Gaskin, The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth, and any & all natural birth stories I can get my hands on! I swear I read every birth story on the internet at some point during my last pregnancy!!