Birth


Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
The Birth Partner
Spiritual Midwifery
Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation
Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method
Birth Matters:  A Midwife's Manifesta
Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide (medically updated)
Childbirth without Fear: The Principles and Practice of Natural Childbirth
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: The Wisdom and Science of Gentle Choices in Pregnancy, Birth, and Parenting
Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born
The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth (Revised)
Active Birth : The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally
The Grapes of Wrath by John SteinbeckRoom by Emma DonoghueBeloved by Toni MorrisonRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareThe Wet Nurse's Tale by Erica Eisdorfer
Breastfeeding in Fiction
62 books — 20 voters
Maternal Hope by Camille SeigleAfter the Storm by Emma Jane UnsworthMatrescence by Lucy   JonesThe Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read [and Your Children Wi... by Philippa PerryAnd Now We Have Everything by Meaghan O'Connell
Pregnancy and New Motherhood
7 books — 3 voters

The Cider House Rules by John IrvingTwo Truths and a Lie by Sara ShepardVampalicious! by Sienna MercerHero by Mike LupicaNova by Rebecca Yarros
The Biological Adoption Twist
10 books — 3 voters

Call the Midwife by Jennifer WorthFarewell to the East End by Jennifer WorthMidwives by Chris BohjalianThe Life and Times of Call the Midwife by Heidi ThomasThe Birth House by Ami McKay
Midwife Books
25 books — 7 voters
I Hunt Killers by Barry LygaDaughter by Kate  McLaughlinHave You Seen This Girl by Nita TyndallThe Serial Killer Guide to San Francisco by Michelle ChouinardBone Music by Christopher  Rice
Sons and Daughters of Sam
24 books — 5 voters

Gabrielle Zevin
They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
Gabrielle Zevin

Hunter S. Thompson
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness. ...more
Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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