Recommended Reading...

HypnoBirthing by
Marie Mongon
This is our class textbook and our reference manual in HypnoBirthing. I learn something new or discover a new perspective on some aspect if birth each time I read it. The more you read it and dwell on it's contents, the more concrete your resolve to focus, relax and let it all happen. You were made to give birth. Believe it and let go...

This is the book you should read before any other . Dr. Buckley explains, in easy to understand language, the logic, safety and benefits of natural birth and gentle parenting, using the best medical evidence. She also explains the conditions we need to optimize the flow of the “ecstatic hormones” that every woman’s body produces during a natural labor and birth, and that continue to support her during early mothering.

PLEASE go to SarahBuckey.com and download this FREE Ebook and read it today. It covers how are hormones work in natural birth along with the baby's and why skin to skin contact is so crucial to our baby's development...

Birth Matters by Ina May Gaskin
This is Inay May's most recent book and one that asserts that the way in which women become mothers is a women's rights issue, and it is perhaps the act that most powerfully exhibits what it is to be instinctually human. Birth Matters is a spirited manifesta showing us how to trust women, value birth, and reconcile modern life with a process as old as our species.

Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Harper
This is a MUST READ for all women. This book covers why birth can be done safely without all the medical protocols and the benefits of hydrotherapy during labor and birth. Visit
waterbirth.org

The Baby Book by Dr. William Sears

This book is wonderful! Answers all of your questions from birth to and beyond

Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding
This book is written by the nation's leading midwife. It is straightforward, has tried and true techniques and has great story content. LOVED IT!!

The

Nursing Mother's Companion, 5th Edition

This one was informative, simple to understand and covered it all.

There are so many good books to read on Birth and Natural Birth. The more things you can do to fill your mind with positive birth stories and the discovering the power that you have within your own body - the better!

I stay away from the books that are written to scare me about what modern medicine is doing wrong and how horrible I am if I don't do it the author's way. I can see the risks and the benefits of modern medicine. By doing your own research, you will find what parts of the medical model you'll want at your birth and which ones you don't.

You don't have that much time to read during these nine months - so make it count. Research the facts and then focus on what you want. If you want a kind, soft, gentle birth - then put those images into your mind and dwell on them. You have to believe to achieve! Envision them happening to you and your birth companion while you're bringing your new little baby into the world.

The next step is figuring out what you have to do to make it happen. You have to be VERY proactive if you want the birth that you are imagining. In the real world - it will not be served to you on a golden platter. You have to set yourself up for success and take responsibility.

How do you have the best birth possible?
By getting the right support, filling your mind with the best birth images and stories and practice - lots of practice. You get out of your birth what you put into it. You can do this - I know you can.

"When you change the way you view birth, the way you birth will change."

-Marie F. Mongan