Sheila Kitzinger is an experienced childbirth educator and childbirth anthropologist who has traveled around the world studing birth and pregnancy in cultures globally. This complete guide to pregnancy and birth is a comprehensive tome to natural childbirth including beautiful color photos of the stages of pregnancy, natural childbirth, waterbirth, laboring positions, prenatal yoga, and more.

Ina May Gaskin is considered to be the grandmother of modern midwifery, and the exceptional stories and statistics of midwifery care at her birth clinic on The Farm Community in Tennessee give her a venerable status in the childbirth community. Ina May is full of birthing wisdom for mamas and birth practitioners in her latest book, including orgasmic birth and active birth.

Natural pregnancy information including yoga, nutrition, herbs, and more. Aviva Jill Romm is an herbalist, midwife, and mother and all of her books are highly recommended.

Gentle Birth Choices is an excellent book to dispel the myths surrounding natural birth and waterbirth and is written by Barbara Harpen, the founder of Waterbirth International. This volume also comes with a DVD created by Waterbirth International showing a birth at home, in the water, and at a birth center. Full of practical advice on birth plans, mind-body prenatal preparation, and waterbirth.

Dr. Sarah Buckley is an Australian physician and homebirth mother of four, including one unassisted breech baby born ecstatically with only her family present. This book is a compilation of Dr. Buckley's wonderful essays about ecstatic birth, attachment parenting, homebirth, prenatal testing, epidurals, ceseareans, breastfeeding, natural diapering, and more. I highly recommend this book for all birth professionals and mothers concerned with the highest quality of natural wisdom and medical research. Many of the chapters in this book are also available for free online at www.sarahjbuckley.com - check it out!

A wonderful book to help you design a Mother Blessing, a gathering, circle, or party to honor the transformation of woman to mother. Full of information on throwing an event as well as designing a ritual to mark the rite of passage.

Explore a mindful childbirth preparation philosophy, this book is full of great information including fun birth art activities,  visualizations, and advice.

A great handbook all about birth and postpartum doula, the advantages, benefits, models, and questions to ask prospective doulas. Easy to read, informative, and full of helpful "doula hints".

Penny Simkin's book The Birth Partner is the perfect book for all expecting dads out there. If you are going to read one book during the pregnancy dads, read this book! Penny is a doula and childbirth educator and is full of valuable information for parents and birth attendants.

The publishers of the classic women's health volume "Our Bodies, Ourselves" has finally come out with a comprehensive volume all about pregnancy and birth. A well researched, feminist, women-centered pregnancy and birth health resource book.

Kundalini yoga for pregnancy, birth, and postpartum by the famous yoga instructor to Hollywood moms including Madonna. Gentle prenatal yoga, meditation, and mindful childbirth preparation.

Natural postpartum health including nutrition, yoga, self-care, and more. After the birth is an incredibly important time for the health of the mom and baby - reading this book will help you to be prepared for wellness and vitality postpartum.

Robin Lim has created a valuable book about the vitally important postpartum time. This is full of wonderful information for health including Ayurveda, whole foods nutrition, yoga, self-care, herbs, and women's wellness.

An easy to read childbirth preparation book by the classic childbirth education organization Lamaze International. Lamaze is no longer all about the "hee-hee" and "hoo-hoo" of 70's childbirth classes, they now encourage women to breath naturally, and have created wonderful resource materials about the Six Care Practices for Normal Labor, which you can be introduced to in their book.

A clear, friendly, easy-to-read breastfeeding book for new and experienced moms. Helpful information to make breastfeeding simple and help to solve common problems. 

The most comprehensive guide to babywearing, written by mother and doctor Mary Blois, MD. Including information on all different types of baby carriers, styles, positions, helpful tips, and photos. Chapters on wearing babys with special needs, kangaroo care for premature babies, and the powerful benefits of touch and entrainment.

HypnoBirthing is full of helpful information for designing a relaxed and gentle birth for your baby. Natural childbirth preparation, visualizations, positioning, and a HypnoBirthing CD to listen to at home.

Meditation, breathwork, and visualization to create a calm, relaxed birth based on ancient Tibetan meditations.

The classic volume on prenatal yoga by Jeannine Parvati Baker, midwife, mother, herbalist, yogini, astrologer, counselor, teacher, and writer. Includes the moving stories of Jeannine's powerful natural childbirths and helpful prenatal yoga information and photos for self-care and inspiration.

Heart and Hands: A Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth is a comprehensive and clear introduction to the midwifery model of care, prenatal care, active labor, natural birth, and postpartum health. This is a must have book for anyone interested in becoming a midwife, doula, or chilbirth educator, as well as a helpful resource for pregnant women.

This is a complete and informative book about natural childbirth from the publishers of Mothering Magazine, the premier natural family living journal.

A book of wisdom for parents by Sobonfu Some, a spiritual teacher and ritual leader, who shares spiritually and holistically uplifting parenting advice from the African teachings of the Dagara tribe.