Postpartum


The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother
The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality
This Isn't What I Expected: Overcoming Postpartum Depression
The Postnatal Depletion Cure: A Complete Guide to Rebuilding Your Health and Reclaiming Your Energy for Mothers of Newborns, Toddlers, and Young Children
Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide to the Secret Fears of New Mothers
Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression
Dropping the Baby and Other Scary Thoughts: Breaking the Cycle of Unwanted Thoughts in Motherhood
Rattled: How to Calm New Mom Anxiety with the Power of the Postpartum Brain
Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood―and Trusting Yourself and Your Body
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
Natural Health after Birth: The Complete Guide to Postpartum Wellness
Thriving Postpartum: Embracing the Indigenous Wisdom of La Cuarentena
The Postpartum Husband: Practical Solutions for living with Postpartum Depression
Healing Your Body Naturally After Childbirth: The New Mom's Guide to Navigating the Fourth Trimester
The Pregnancy and Postpartum Anxiety Workbook: Practical Skills to Help You Overcome Anxiety, Worry, Panic Attacks, Obsessions, and Compulsions
Women Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola EstésCome as You Are by Emily NagoskiMary Magdalene Revealed by Meggan WattersonThe Fifth Vital Sign by Lisa Hendrickson-JackHere Sister, Let Me Help You Up by Stephanie Chinn
Womens Wellness and Body Positivity
26 books — 12 voters
Down Home Gynecology by Marvin JaffeeParthenogenesis by Den PoitrasOn Birth and Madness by Eric RhodeLabor Among Primitive Peoples, Showing the Development of the... by George Julius EngelmannLotus Birth by Shivam Rachana
•l'OBSTEerTRICkS
100 books — 1 voter

A Mother's Climb Out Of Darkness by Jennifer H. MoyerThe Secret Life of a Weight-Obsessed Woman by Iris Ruth Pastor
A Mother's Climb Out of Darkness
2 books — 2 voters

Maternal Hope by Camille SeigleThe Mother-to-Mother Postpartum Depression Support Book by Sandra PoulinThis Isn't What I Expected by Karen KleimanThe Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey KarpGood Moms Have Bad Days by Eren Simpson
Postpartum Support (PMAD and more)
34 books — 8 voters
Conscious Parenting by Nataša PantovićParenting from Within by Kaveh SamsamyThe New Pregnancy and Childbirth by Sheila KitzingerHow to Heal a Bad Birth by Melissa J BruijnDear Mama, You Matter by Amanda  Hardy
For New Mamas & Parents
24 books — 7 voters

Though it is becoming an increasingly popular area of advocacy, the United States continues to top the list of nations that are disconnected from the basic concept of relieving a mother of overwork and giving her dancing hormones the time and space to regulate through rest and proper nutrition. It's a grin-and-bear-it moment (complete with dark circles and wan complexion). And, these days, with more and more women literally and energetically holding the home together as the primary breadwinner, ...more
Heng Ou, The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother

Eda J. Vor
Apparently, as long as I continue to feed my children, there’s nothing wrong with me. A functional mom is one who can change a diaper and remember bedtimes. I’m not falling apart, so I’m fine.
Eda J. Vor, Fully Functioning: a postpartum descent into obsessive fangirling

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A bookclub and group dedicated to discussion of maternal mental health themed books.
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