[~Kristina~]

I can't seem to find one. Any recommendations?

 

[akmyilee]

I don't know of any that are specifically homebirth but the Dr. Sears book "What Baby needs" is non specific about the home/hospital thing. I REALLY liked it. HTH

 

[mom3b1?]

I saw this thread, and had to think and think to remember the book. I lost all my books, and almost everything else, in a fire two years ago so I can't just go to the shelf and look things up anymore. Some things I've replaced but not this one.

Great Book:

"Welcome Baby!"

About a very gentle MW assisted homebirth. Very non medical approach, no machines etc, very sweet story told from big brother's point of view. It's a picture book.

I also liked Sheila Kitzenger's "Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth" which we used for homeschooling about birth. My kids loved the pictures. Used it to explain things to number one when number two came, then to number one and two when number three came.

Kiley

 

[cheeseRjedi]

I am going to get "Welcome With Love' for my dd.

 

[Defenestrator]

I think that Welcome With Love by Jenni Overend is a beautiful book. Another children's book is Runa's Birth. http://www.childrensneeds.com/runa_s_birth.html

 

[kaylas mama]

Welcome with Love for certain!!!!!

 

[lilylove]

Another vote for 'Welcome with Love'. Such a fantastic book

 

[greenthumb3]

Happy Birth Day by Robie Harris has nice pictures of a newborn and of extended family visiting after baby's birth and how much baby is loved. Although not a homebirth book, it' still a good one. (LOVE Welcome, Baby, too)

I adored this book for myself and brought it to baby showers and showed my kids. i loved the awesome pictures and absorbed them b/c they were not illustrations, but actual photos of real babies in utero at various stages and photos of babies being born, crowning, and breastfeeding: A Child is Born by Lennart Nilsson.

 

[~Kristina~]

Thanks for the recommendations, I just ordered Welcome with Love.

 

[orangeiron]

Definately 'Welcome with Love'
what was so great about that book besides the gorgrous drawings and beautiful story was that it brought up questions that I would not have thought to address about the placenta and the umbilical cord and it is all down in a way that isn't scary, just matter of fact and filled with love.
'Runa's Birht is good to, but I liked 'Welcome with Love' better.

 

[~Kristina~]

I got Welcome with Love today and it's PERFECT! Thank you so much.

 

[beanbean]

Thanks for the recs, I just bought "Welcome with Love" too!! Hooray for Amazon Prime!