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Required Reading

BBDC Approved Reading List

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Required Titles

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  • Babies are not Pizzas: They’re Born Not Delivered!

       Rebecca Dekker

 

  • Breastfeeding Made Simple

       Nancy Mohrbacher and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett 2nd edition

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  • The Doula Book

       Marshall H. Klaus 

 

  • The Birth Partner

       Penny Simpkin

 

  • Ina May Gaskin’s Guide to Childbirth

       Ina May Gaskin

 

Approved Titles

 

Narratives

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  • Rediscovering Birth

       Sheila Kitzinger 

 

  • Raising Henry: A Memoir of Motherhood, Disability, and Discovery

       Rachel Adams

 

  • Listen to me Good: The life story of an Alabama Midwife

       Margaret Charles Smith and Linda Janet Holmes

 

  • Supernatural childbirth

       Jackie Mize 


 

Parent-Focused

 

  • Taking Charge of your fertility, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health

       Toni Weschler
 

  • Home Birth: a practical guide 4th edition

       Nicky Wesson 

 

  • Birthing Normally After a Cesarean or Two

       Helene Vadeboncoeur

 

  • Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A doctor’s guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices

       James J. McKenna PH.D.

 

  • The Expectant father 4th edition

       Armin a. Brott and Jennifer Ash


 

Nutrition & Breastfeeding

 

  • Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and wisdom of Optional Prenatal Nutrition

       Lily Nichols

 

  • Your Baby’s Microbiome: The Critical Role of Vaginal Birth and Breastfeeding for Lifelong Health

       Toni Herman and Alex Wakeford 

 

  • Why the politics of breastfeeding Matters

       Susan Last and Gabrielle Palmer
 

  • Breastfeeding: Empowering Parents

       Dr. Jack Newman FRCPC

 

  • The Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers

       Jack Newman 


 

Politics & Evidence-Based

 

  • What’s Right for me? : Making decisions in pregnancy and childbirth

       Sara Whickham RM MA BA(Hons) PGGCE(A) 

 

  • Gentle Birth Choices: A Guide to Making Informed Decisions about Birthing Centers, Birth Attendants, Water Birth, Home Birth, and Hospital Birth

       Barbra Harper

 

  • Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and childbirth

       Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte


 

Skill Development & Overcoming Challenges

 

  • Oxytocin: The Biological Guide to Motherhood

       Kerstin Uvnas-Moberg 2016

 

  • Traumatic Childbirth

       Cheryl Tatano Beck, Jeanne Watson Driscoll, and Sue Watson
 

  • How to Heal a Bad Birth: Making Sense, Making Peace and Moving On 

       Melissa J. Bruijn and Debby A Gould 

 

  • Beyond the Blues, Understanding and Treating Prenatal and Postpartum Depression and Anxiety

       Shoshana s. Benett and Pec Indman

 

  • Disability in Pregnancy and Childbirth

       Stella Frances McKay-Moffat MPhil 

 

  • Women’s Health Communication: High-Risk Pregnancy and Premature Birth Narratives

       Jennifer G Hall 

 

  • Natural Hospital Birth

       Cynthia Gabriel 

 

  • Cut, Stapled and Mended

       Rosanna Rosewood

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