15 best-selling parenting books like The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother by Amely Greeven, Heng Ou, Marisa Belger

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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…

If you liked the parenting plot in The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother by Amely Greeven, Heng Ou, Marisa Belger , here is a list of 15 books like this:

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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
  • childrens
  • 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

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2. Spiritual Midwifery

By: Ina May Gaskin

4.38

Format: 482 pages, Paperback

Here is the 4th edition of the classic book on home birth that introduced a whole generation of wom… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • health
"Touch is the most basic, the most nonconceptual form of communication that we have. In touch there are no language barriers; anything that can walk, fly, creep, crawl, or swim already speaks it."

-Ina May Gaskin, Spiritual Midwifery

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3. Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation

By: Pam England , Rob Horowitz

4.01

Format: 331 pages, Paperback

Here is a holistic approach to childbirth that examines this profound rite-of-passage not as a medi… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • health
Cover of Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond by Nancy Bardacke

4. Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond

By: Nancy Bardacke

3.75

Format: 271 pages, Paperback

With Mindful Birthing,Nancy Bardacke, nurse-midwife and mindfulness teacher, lays out her innovativ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • health
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5. HypnoBirthing: The Mongan Method

By: Marie F. Mongan , Lorne R. Campbell

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Childbirth is not something to be feared; it is a natural expression of life. With HypnoBirthing, y… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • health
Cover of The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother by Amely Greeven, Heng Ou, Marisa Belger

6. 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

Similar categories in Amely Greeven's The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother book and Amely Greeven's The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother

  • parenting
  • childrens
  • health
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
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7. 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
  • childrens
"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

8. 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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9. 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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10. Ina May's Guide to Breastfeeding

By: Ina May Gaskin

4.15

Format: None pages, Paperback

Everything you need to know to make breastfeeding a joyful, natural, and richly fulfilling experien… read more

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11. Natural Hospital Birth: The Best of Both Worlds

By: Cynthia Gabriel

3.25

Format: 198 pages, Paperback

These days, many mothers-to-be find themselves torn between the desire for a natural childbirth wit… read more

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12. Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide

By: Penny Simkin , Janet Whalley , Ann Keppler

4.32

Format: 210 pages,

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13. The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding

By: La Leche League International , None

3.17

Format: None pages,

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Cover of Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster

14. 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
  • childrens
"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

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15. The Montessori Baby: A Parent's Guide to Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding (The Parents' Guide to Montessori, 2)

By: Simone Davies

3.95

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

It’s time to change the way we see babies. Drawing on principles developed by the educator Dr Maria… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
Cover of The Postnatal Depletion Cure: A Complete Guide to Rebuilding Your Health and Reclaiming Your Energy for Mothers of Newborns, Toddlers, and Young Children by Oscar Serrallach

16. The Postnatal Depletion Cure: A Complete Guide to Rebuilding Your Health and Reclaiming Your Energy for Mothers of Newborns, Toddlers, and Young Children

By: Oscar Serrallach

3.72

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

While postpartum depression has become a recognizable condition, this is the first book to treat ro… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • health
Cover of Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood―and Trusting Yourself and Your Body by Erica Chidi

17. Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood―and Trusting Yourself and Your Body

By: Erica Chidi

4.31

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

"What a gift to new and expecting moms. You have no idea the mountain and rollercoaster you're abou… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • health
Cover of Real Food for Pregnancy: The Science and Wisdom of Optimal Prenatal Nutrition by Lily Nichols

18. 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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  • parenting
  • childrens
  • health
  • cookbooks
  • cooking
  • food
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth by Genevieve Howland

19. The Mama Natural Week-by-Week Guide to Pregnancy and Childbirth

By: Genevieve Howland

4.29

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

With 80 million views on her YouTube channel and even more on MamaNatural.com, Howland's (a.k.a. Ma… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • health
Cover of Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood by Britta Bushnell

20. Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood

By: Britta Bushnell

4.46

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

As expecting parents, you’re bombarded with more information—and opinions—than ever about the “righ… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
"Birth doesn't ask you to be fearless. It asks you to be brave."

-Britta Bushnell, Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood

"Birth, while transcendent, otherworldly, spiritual, and profound, is actually intense hard work that tests our ideas of what “spiritual"

-Britta Bushnell, Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood

"When we enter the world of birth, we step across the threshold from the mundane to the sacred. Pregnancy and birth are a space between worlds — a liminal space — a place where you are no longer not a…"

-Britta Bushnell, Transformed by Birth: Cultivating Openness, Resilience, and Strength for the Life-Changing Journey from Pregnancy to Parenthood

Cover of Birth Without Fear: The Judgment-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum by January Harshe

21. Birth Without Fear: The Judgment-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum

By: January Harshe

3.63

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

An inclusive, non-judgmental, and empowering guide to pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum life th… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • parenting
  • childrens
  • health
"There's a big difference between an intervention that's introduced or suggested due to a true medical need - or even by your request - and one that's due to impatience; a difference between someone s…"

-January Harshe, Birth Without Fear: The Judgment-Free Guide to Taking Charge of Your Pregnancy, Birth, and Postpartum

11 best-selling childrens books like The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother by Amely Greeven, Heng Ou, Marisa Belger

Transform Your Habits

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Ina May Gaskin

4.36

Transform Your Habits

Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation

Pam England , Rob Horowitz

4.01

Transform Your Habits

Mindful Birthing: Training the Mind, Body, and Heart for Childbirth and Beyond

Nancy Bardacke

3.75

Transform Your Habits

The First Forty Days: The Essential Art of Nourishing the New Mother

Amely Greeven , Heng Ou , Marisa Belger

4.13

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6 Top adult books like The Montessori Baby: A Parent's Guide to Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding (The Parents' Guide to Montessori, 2) by Simone Davies

Transform Your Habits

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

Ina May Gaskin

4.36

Transform Your Habits

What to Expect When You're Expecting

Arlene Eisenberg , Heidi Murkoff , Sandee Hathaway

3.63

Transform Your Habits

Bringing Up Bébé: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting

Abby Craden , Pamela Druckerman

4.02

Transform Your Habits

Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool

Emily Oster

4.14

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