When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women
By: Penny Simkin
4.42
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
When Survivors Give Birth is written for a mixed audience of maternity care professionals and para-…
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1. Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
By: Ina May Gaskin
4.36
Format: 348 pages, Paperback
What you need to know to have the best birth experience for you. Drawing upon her thirty-plus year… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- health
"It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet."-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
"Even if it has not been your habit throughout your life so far, I recommend that you learn to think positively about your body."-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
"It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physic…"-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
"Gardeners know that you must nourish the soil if you want healthy plants. You must water the plants adequately, especially when seeds are germinating and sprouting, and they should be planted in a nu…"-Ina May Gaskin, Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
2. Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
By: Peggy Vincent
3.70
Format: 168 pages, Paperback
An inspiring collection of birth stories by a charming midwife. Each time she knelt to "catch" anot… read more
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- medical
- nonfiction
- parenting
- health
3. The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer
By: Harvey Karp
3.72
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
In perhaps the most important parenting book of the decade, Dr. Harvey Karp reveals an extraordinar… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- health
4. You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth
By: Jen Sincero
2.57
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of You Are a Badass, a life-changing guide to making … read more
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- nonfiction
5. The Whole-Brain Child: 12 Revolutionary Strategies to Nurture Your Child's Developing Mind, Survive Everyday Parenting Struggles, and Help Your Family Thrive
By: Daniel J. Siegel , Tina Payne Bryson
4.44
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Your toddler throws a tantrum in the middle of a store. Your preschooler refuses to get dressed. Yo… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- psychology
6. Precious Little Sleep
By: Alexis Dubief
3.98
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Expert, Hilarious, and Tactically Comprehensive Baby Sleep Book Parenting a baby or toddler is … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
7. The Fifth Trimester: The Working Mom's Guide to Style, Sanity, and Big Success After Baby
By: Lauren Smith Brody
3.57
Format: None pages, Audio CD
The Fifth Trimesteris your new best friend: a brilliant, tells-it-like-it-is guide that helps moms … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
8. The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother
By: Amely Greeven , Heng Ou , Marisa Belger
4.13
Format: 260 pages, Hardcover
The first 40 days after the birth of a child offer an essential and fleeting period of rest and rec… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- health
9. Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
By: Abby Craden , Pamela Druckerman
4.02
Format: 10 pages, Audiobook
The secret behind France's astonishingly well-behaved children. When American journalist Pamela Dr… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- psychology
"You don’t say, “I’m sorry,"-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
"Letting children “live their lives"-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
"...the main point of parental authority is to authorize children to do things, not to block them."-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
"One day I have a revelation. ‘I think we’re actually quite compatible,’ I tell him. ‘You’re irritable, and I’m irritating."-Abby Craden, Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting
10. The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing Your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality
By: Kimberly Ann Johnson
4.33
Format: 306 pages, Paperback
A holistic, practical guide to help support women through post-partum healing on the physical, emot… read more
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11. Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site
By: Tom Lichtenheld , Sherri Duskey Rinker
4.60
Format: 431 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Timesbestseller As the sun sets behind the big construction site, all the hardworki… read more
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12. Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong - and What You Really Need to Know
By: Emily Oster
4.15
Format: 130 pages,
What to Expect When You're Expectingmeets Freakonomics: an award-winning economist disproves standa… read more
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13. Midwives
By: Chris Bohjalian
3.25
Format: None pages,
The time is 1981, and Sibyl Danforth has been a dedicated midwife in the rural community of Redding… read more
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14. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty
By: Dorothy Roberts
4.35
Format: None pages, Paperback
This is a no-holds-barred response to the liberal and conservative retreat from an assertive, activ… read more
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15. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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- nonfiction
"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
16. A Living Remedy: A Memoir
By: Nicole Chung
4.01
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
A searing memoir of family, class and grief—a daughter’s search to understand the lives her adoptiv… read more
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- nonfiction
"How do you learn to cherish yourself, your life, when grief has made it unrecognizable? I am starting to feel that we do so not by trying to fill a void that can never be filled but by living as best…"-Nicole Chung, A Living Remedy: A Memoir
17. Trust Exercise
By: Susan Choi
3.14
Format: 257 pages, Paperback
In an American suburb in the early 1980s, students at a highly competitive performing arts high sch… read more
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"Neither can drive."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"Possibly first love, despite all the fuss, is only mating with ideas attached."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"Heartbreak doesn't flow through the heart but along that frail shallow canal of the sternum."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
"[..] said Sarah's broken and cynical mother, who for all her superior experience of life knew nothing about how to live."-Susan Choi, Trust Exercise
18. The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
By: Sonya Renee Taylor
4.23
Format: 137 pages, Paperback
A global movement guided by love. Humans are a varied and divergent bunch with all manner of bel… read more
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- nonfiction
- psychology
- health
"There is gorgeous potential and heinous instinct in us all."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Being different is difficult in a world that tells us there is a "normal."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"The most powerful antidote to a world of body terrorism is a world of compassion. Giving yourself the gift of grace is an act of revolution!"-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
"Systems do not maintain themselves; even our lack of intervention is an act of maintenance. Every structure in every society is upheld by the active and passive assistance of other human beings."-Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love
19. Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
By: Emily Oster
4.14
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
From the author of EXPECTING BETTER, an economist's guide to the early years of parenting With E… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
"This idea—that what parents need or want will play a role in choices—can be hard to admit. In a sense, I think this is at the core of a lot of the “Mommy War"-Emily Oster, Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool
20. Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology
By: Deirdre Cooper Owens
4.14
Format: 182 pages, Kindle Edition
The accomplishments of pioneering doctors such as John Peter Mettauer, James Marion Sims, and Natha… read more
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- medical
- nonfiction
- health
21. Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition
By: Lily Nichols
4.51
Format: 348 pages, Kindle Edition
Prenatal nutrition can be confusing. A lot of the advice you’ve been given about what to eat (or wh… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- health
22. And Yet: Poems
By: Kate Baer
3.97
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
The second full length poetry collection from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of What Kind… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
"Let your life rest on what is already good."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"It's just another day in the good-bad, bad-good earth machine."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
"We expect so much of children, hovering above them like giant, invincible gods. What a racket to discover as an adult, how little we have to pass down."-Kate Baer, And Yet: Poems
23. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
By: Lisa Damour
4.47
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers’ in… read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- psychology
- health
24. God Spare the Girls
By: Kelsey McKinney
3.56
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A mesmerizing debut novel set in northern Texas about two sisters who discover a dark secret about … read more
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25. The Collected Regrets of Clover
By: Mikki Brammer
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
What’s the point of giving someone a beautiful death if you can’t give yourself a beautiful life? … read more
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"Instead of constantly asking ourselves the question of why we're here, maybe we should be savoring the simpler truth: We are here."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"Maybe we just need to appreciate that many aspects of life— and the people we love—will always be a mystery. Because without mystery, there is no magic."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"The secret to a beautiful death is to live a beautiful life. Putting your heart out there. Letting it get broken. Taking chances. Making mistakes.... Promise me, kid,...that you'll let yourself live."-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
"Grief plays tricks on you that way - a familiar whiff of cologne or a potential sighting of your person in a crowd, and all the knots you've tied inside yourself to manage the pain of losing them sud…"-Mikki Brammer, The Collected Regrets of Clover
26. Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
By: Angela Garbes
4.22
Format: 256 pages, ebook
What to read after What to Expect . . . . A badass, feminist, and personal deep-dive into the scie… read more
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- parenting
- health
"The origins of the placenta can be traced back to a virus."-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
"Her enthusiasm for the organ is contagious. Enough to convince you that the alphabet posters in kindergarten classrooms should declare that "P" is for 'placenta'..."-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
"The foundation of the female pelvis is composed of two hip bones, which come together to form a deep bowl that is filled by the uterus, ovaries, bladder, urethra, vagina, and colon."-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
"Throughout pregnancy, I liked to lie in bed and imagine all the changes happening inside me: cells splitting, fingernails and eyelashes growing, veins spreading, brain and gray matter forming and fol…"-Angela Garbes, Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy
27. Reclaiming Childbirth as a Rite of Passage: Weaving Ancient Wisdom With Modern Knowledge
By: Rachel Reed
4.56
Format: 373 pages, Paperback
It’s time for a childbirth revolution. The modern approach to maternity care fails women, families … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
- health
28. Babies Are Not Pizzas: They're Born, Not Delivered
By: Rebecca Dekker
4.15
Format: 258 pages, Kindle Edition
One in three births is traumatic. It doesn’t have to be that way. Rebecca planned to give birth a… read more
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- medical
- nonfiction
- parenting
- health
29. Body Full of Stars: Female Rage and My Passage into Motherhood
By: Molly Caro May
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
"This book is an ancient call from our first mothers to connect to our bodies―for our own good and … read more
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- nonfiction
- parenting
30. When Survivors Give Birth: Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women
By: Penny Simkin
4.42
Format: 450 pages, Paperback
When Survivors Give Birth is written for a mixed audience of maternity care professionals and para-… read more
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