I’m posting an ongoing reading list here of books I’ve completed about midwifery, childbirth, pregnancy. To be put on this list, I must have read the book in its entirety.
| number | Title | Author(s) |
| 1 | Safer Childbirth? | Marjorie Dew |
| 2 | What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know | Gail Sforza Brewer |
| 3 | Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy | Thomas H. Brewer, MD |
| 4 | Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering | Dr. Sarah Buckley |
| 5 | Motherwit: An Alabama Midwife’s Story | Onnie Lee Logan (as told to Katherine Clark) |
| 6 | Special Delivery | Rahima Baldwin |
| 7 | Listening to your Hormones | Gillian Ford |
| 8 | The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth | Sheila Kitzinger |
| 9 | Birth as an American Rite of Passage | Robbie E. Davis-Floyd |
| 10 | A Midwife’s Tale | Laurel Thatcher Ulrich |
| 11 | Baby Catcher: Chronicles of the Modern Midwife | Peggy Vincent |
| 12 | The Birth Partner | Penny Simpkin |
| 13 | Fertility Awareness Handbook | Barbara Kass-Annese & Hal C. Danzer |
| 14 | Holistic Midwifery, vol. 1 | Anne Frye |
| 15 | Ina Mae’s Guide to Childbirth | Ina Mae Gaskin |
| 16 | An Introduction to Biological Nurturing: New Angles on Breastfeeding | Suzanne Colson |
| 17 | Listen to Me Good | Margaret Charles Smith & Linda Janet Holmes |
| 18 | A Midwife’s Story | Penny Armstrong, with Sheryl Feldman |
| 19 | The Nurturing Touch at Birth: A Labor Support Handbook | Paulina Perez |
| 20 | A Nursing Mother’s Companion, 3rd ed | Kathleen Huggins |
| 21 | The Placenta: To Know Me is to Love Me (A reference guide to gross placental exam) | Doris Schuler-Maloney, Steve Lee |
| 22 | The Process of Teaching Birth | Trish Booth |
| 23 | Painless Childbirth: Psycho-prophylactic Method | Fernand Lamaze |
| 24 | Sisters on a Journey: Portraits of American Midwives | Penfield Chester |
| 25 | Silent Knife | Nancy Wainer-Cohen & Lois J. Estner |
| 26 | The Thinking Woman’s Guide to a Better Birth | Henci Goer |
| 27 | Taking Charge of Your Fertility | Toni Weschler |
| 28 | Your Fertility Signals | Meryl Winstein |
| 29 | The Secret Life of the Unborn Child | Thomas Verny, MD with John Kelly |
| 30 | Emergency Childbirth | Gregory J White, MD |
| 31 | Traditional Foods are your Best Medicine | Ronald R. Schmid |
| 32 | Why Not Me? The Story of Gladys Milton, midwife | Wendy Brovard & Gladys Milton |
| 33 | Birth Reborn | Michel Odent |
| 34 | Birth Models that Work | Robbie Davis-Floyd, Leslie Barclay, Betty-Anne Davis, Jan Tritten |
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Other Books
| Foreign to Familiar: A Guide to Understanding Hot- and Cold-Climate Cultures | Sarah Lanier | |
| Preach and Health: A Biblical Model for Missions | Charles Fielding | |
| Live Life on Purpose | Claude Hickman | |
| When Helping Hurts: Alleviating Poverty Without Hurting the Poor…and Yourself | Brian Fikkert, Steve Corbett | |
| The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures | Anne Fadiman | |
| Attached At the Heart | Barbara Nicholson and Lysa Parker | |