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Massachusetts Midwives Alliance
Midwives Alliance of North America
Joyous Birth- Australian Homebirth Network
International Cesarean Awareness Network
La Leche League International
Homeopathic Educational Services
State laws about vaccination
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All Bodies
Vaccine Ingredients
Vaccine Ingredients
Attachment Parenting
Natural Child
Natural Family
Suggested Reading
~ Women's Health
Woman: An Intimate Geography
Natalie Angier
Blood and Roses
Judy Gahn
Our Bodies, Ourselves (all of them!)
Boston Women's Health Collective
Ancient Healing for Modern Women
Xiaolan Zhao
Fertility Signals
Merryl Winstein
Taking Charge of Your Fertility
Toni Weschler
~ Pregnancy & Childbirth
Lying-In, A History of Childbirth in America
Richard W. Wertz & Dorothy C. Wertz
Born in the USA
Marsden Wagner
Pushed
Jennifer Block
Misconceptions
Naomi Wolf
The Thinking Woman's Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth
Henci Goer
Gentle Birth Choices
Barbara Harper
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering
Sarah J. Buckley
Birth Without Violence
Frederick Leboyer
Instinctive Birthing
Val Clarke
Magical Beginnings, Enchanted Lives
Deepak Chopra, M.D.
Mind Over Labor
Carl Jones
Calm Birth
Robert Bruce Newman
Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth Birth Matters
Ina May Gaskin
Bountiful, Beautiful, Blissful: Experience the Natural Power
of Pregnancy and Birth with Kundalini Yoga and Meditation
Gurmuk Kaur Khalsa
Active Birth & Yoga for Pregnancy
Janet Balaskas
Essential Excercises for the Childbearing
Elizabeth Noble
The Woman's Comfort Book in Pregnancy
Jennifer Louden
Silent Knife
Nancy Wainer Cohen
Open Season
Nancy Wainer Cohen
Birthing From Within
Pam England & Rob Horowitz
Birth Reborn
Michel Odent
The Birth Partner
Penny Simkin
The Natural Pregnancy Book
Aviva Jill Romm
Sit Up and Take Notice
Pauline Scott
Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year
Susan Weed
Birthing the Easy Way
Sheila Stubbs
~ Postpartum & Breastfeeding
After the Baby's Birth:A Woman's Way to Wellness:
Robin Lim
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
LaLeche League International
The Nursing Mother's Companion
Kathleen Huggins
Breast/Chest Feeding Resources www.allbodies.com ​​​
Breast/Chest Feeding Resources www.allbodies.com ​​​
~ Early Childhood
Child Health Guide: Holistic Pediatrics for Parents
Randall Neustaedter
Homeopathy for Pregnancy, Birth, and Your Baby's First Year
Miranda Castro
Homeopathic Medicine for Children and Infants
Dana Ullman
Dr. Paula's Housecalls to Your Newborn
Paula Elbirt
The Baby Book
William and Martha Sears
The Magical Child
Joseph Chilton Pearce
You are Your Child's First Teacher (Early Years)
Rahima Baldwin
Natural Childhood: The First Practical and Holistic Guidefor Parents of the Developing
John Thomson
Unconditional Parenting: Moving from Rewards & Punishments to Love and Reason
Alfie Kohn
The Other Baby Book
Megan McCrory Massaro & Miriam J Katz
Smart Medicine for a Healthier Child
Janet Zand, MD
Natural Baby & Childcare: Practical Advise and Holistic Wisdom for Raising Healthy Children
Lauren Feder, MD
Vaccinations: A thoughtful Parent's Guide: How to make Safe, Sensible Decisions about the Risks, Benefits and Alternatives
Aviva Jill Romm
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Suggested Films
Amazing talents of the newborn
Birth Gloria Lemay
Birth Day
Birth As We Know It
Bonded Beginnings: Creating an Extrodinary Family
Born in Water: A Sacred Journey
The Business of Being Born
Epic Women- DVD Slideshow
The Greater Good
Orgasmic Birth
Prenatal Yoga with Sarah Longacre
Real Birth Stories
reducinginfantmortality
Secrets of happy babies: nature's superb design for the family
What Babies Want
The other Side of the Glass

Being Born is Important
Being born is important
You who have stood at the bedposts
and seen a mother on her high harvest day,
the day of the most golden of harvest moons
for her
You who have seen the new wet child
Dried behind the ears,
Swaddled in soft fresh garments,
pursing its lips and seeing a groping mouth
toward nipples where the white milk is ready
You who have seen this love's payday
of wild toiling and sweet agonizing.
You know being born is important
You know that nothing else was ever so
important to you.
You understand that the payday of love is so
old,
so involved, so traced with the circles of the
moon,
So cunning with the secrets of the salts of
the blood,
It must be older than the moon, older than
the salt.
Carl Sandburg
