Recommended Reading

BOOKS
"Birth as an American Rite of Passage" by Robbie Davis Floyd
"The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth" by Sheila Kitzinger
​"The Doula's Guide to Empowering Your Birth" by Lindsay Bliss
"The Birth Partner" by Penny Simkin
"Trans Bodies, Trans Selves: A Resource Guide for the Transgender Community" 
"The Natural Pregnancy" by Aviva Jill Romm
"Like a Mother" by Angela Garbes
"Birth Matters" by Ina May Gaskin
"Fat Birth" by Michelle Mayefske
"Black Women Birthing Justice" edited by Julia Chinyere Oparah and Alicia D. Bonaparte
"Ina May's Guide to Childbirth" by Ina May Gaskin
"The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth" by Henci Goer
"Herbal for the Childbearing Year" by Susun Weed
"Natural Baby and Childcare" by Lauren Feder
"The Nursing Mother's Companion" by Kathleen Huggins
"The Baby Book" by Dr. Sears

ONLINE RESOURCES
How Does the Role of Nurse-Midwives Change from State to State?
Low Intervention Birth: 6 Questions You Should Be Asking Your Provider
​ACOG's Safe Prevention of the Primary Cesarean