Recommended Reading
Media Recommendations
Below you’ll find a short list of highly recommended reading and viewing materials to assist you in education, viewpoints and everything related to birth and the birthing experience.
This is by no means a comprehensive list, though it is a great place to start.
Take the time to watch these movies and talk about it with your birth team:
Recommended Reading
Birth
- Birthing from within – Pam England
- Birth with confidence (Savvy choices for normal birth) – Rhea Dempsey
- Gentle birth gentle mothering – Sarah Buckley
- A guide to childbirth – Ina May Gaskin
- The down to earth birth book – Jenny Blyth
- The thinking woman’s guide to a better birth – Henci Goer
- Pregnancy and birth – Michel Odent
- Water Labour Water Birth – by Annie Sprague
- Breech birth woman wise – Maggie Banks
Parenting
- Parenting by heart – Pinky McKay
- 101 Ways to calm the crying – Pinky McKay
- Sleeping like a baby – Pinky McKay
- Raising the best possible child – Jo Jackson King
- The Wonder Weeks – Hetty Van de Rijt, Frans Plooi
- The science of parenting – Margot Sunderland
- Breastfeeding naturally – The Australian breastfeeding association
Fathers
- Cheers to Childbirth – the must-have handbook for expectant fathers
Recommended Viewing
Dusty’s big day out – A home water birth by Di Diddle
The big stretch – An insight into the amazing journey each woman takes in becoming a mother
Orgasmic birth – The beauty and natural nature of birth
The face of birth – A recent Australian film about when the personal gets political.
The business of being born – (u-tube video) – A USA based documentary on the birth business and its impact on women and our culture.
Birth as we know it and Giving Birth by Suzanne Arms
Microbirth – A new 60 minute documentary investigating the latest scientific research about the microscopic events happening during childbirth.
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