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Camille's Recommended Books for Pregnant Couples and New Parents
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items Books for pregnant couples and brand new parents which support gentle/attachment/continuum parenting philosophies
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This book is an amazing tool for fostering understanding between parents and children. Figuring out which sense is dominant in yourself and your child really helps to smooth your relationship and kind of get you communicating in a way that they can r...
Child Sense: From Birth to Age 5, How to Use the 5 Senses to Make Sleeping, Eating, Dressing, and Other Everyday Activities Easier While Strengthening Your Bond With Child
This book blew my mind. It's a little bit heavy for a lay person, but not so much that it's not possible to get something very important out of it: a deeper understanding of why loving, gentle parenting is SO important during the newborn stage. Babie...
Why Love Matters: How affection shapes a baby's brain
This book is a game changer. It goes into quite some depth about the amazing discovery of Dunstan Baby Language in the late 1990's by a woman in Australia with a literal superpower, a photographic sound-memory. You will never hear your baby's cries t...
Calm the Crying: The Secret Baby Language That Reveals the Hidden Meaning Behind an Infant's Cry
This book is a bit of a challenging read, this author spent two years living with a previously uncontacted tribe in the Amazon jungle, so she witnessed an amazing natural structure and an effortless peace and harmony between parents and children. But...
The Continuum Concept: In Search Of Happiness Lost (Classics in Human Development)
This book is truly a classic, you will never ever find a better breastfeeding guide. It is simple, covers everything you could ever think of concerning breastfeeding and is really a must-read for every pregnant couple.
The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding: Completely Revised and Updated 8th Edition
Dr Jack Newman is hand's down the best breastfeeding resource out there. His advice respects the true biology of the newborn and the nursing mum, and he is just so kind, while still being very medically accurate. My dear friend met him at a conferenc...
Dr. Jack Newman's Guide to Breastfeeding
While many people know about the Ricki Lake Show not many know that she is a birth doula who made an amazing documentary called The Business of Being Born, and wrote this great book on how to have the best birth you possibly can, under the circumstan...
Your Best Birth: Know All Your Options, Discover the Natural Choices, and Take Back the Birth Experience
Ina May Gaskin is one of the natural birth icons of our time. In her youth, she and her husband joined a hippie commune and lived in school buses. They delivered babies without medical help in those same buses, and later founded The Farm, where babie...
Ina May's Guide to Childbirth "Updated With New Material"
This short and simple book by an amazing midwife, is perfect for changing your mindset about birth, and it will really help simplify your partner's understanding of what they can do for you during labour to improve the experience for everyone. ALL HU...
The Basic Needs of a Woman in Labour
When I was a student in 2002, I found this book in a library and it literally blew my mind. I had never thought twice about the idea of natural childbirth, I figured I would simply plan a C-section one day if I ever fell pregnant, and this book just ...
Birth Reborn
This wonderful book is the one I worked out of specifically when I completed my doula training in 2011. It's a great birth preparation resource which doesn't dictate what kind of birth anyone should have, but gives you tools to deal with reality as i...
Birthing from Within: An Extra-Ordinary Guide to Childbirth Preparation
What a great book by an incredible professional in the field of birth and birth support. Anyone thinking of attending someone's birth, whether you are a partner, doula, family member or friend, this book is your resource to prepare yourself to truly ...
The Birth Partner 5th Edition: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Partners, Doulas, and Other Labor Companions
This gem of a woman was SO instrumental in helping women all over the world to be heard and supported during birth and the peri-natal time. This is a classic for doulas, midwives and pregnant couples. I have this book and it is really a treasure trov...
The New Pregnancy & Childbirth: Choices & Challenges
Alisa Vitti is a POWER woman and this book is GOLD! This was the first really mainstream book about cycle-syncing, and Alisa has this way of explaining and conveying concepts so that they really resonate, and so they can actually be applied! Learn about the 4 stages of your cycle and how to bio-hack t...
WomanCode: Perfect Your Cycle, Amplify Your Fertility, Supercharge Your Sex Drive, and Become a Power Source
This book is the real deal. Hormonal contraception is destroying the health of women and girls, and the “callendar method, or rhythm method” are just creating unplanned pregnancies. This book explains in detail how to TRULY understand your body, or y...
Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health
I am EXTREMELY selective of which potty training books I recommend, I would never suggest parents just grab any one, because kids can experience trauma during potty training, if done incorrectly. This is the only author I trust. She is so reassuring ...
Tiny Potty: a teaching book for ages 6 months and up
This book I wrote together with registered nurse and holistic private midwife Vanessa De Beer. It also includes a free video mini-course on how to help your baby with infant dyschezia, who grunts and strains and struggles all night long to have a bow...
Undiapering! How to raise babies without diapers
Sarah Buckley is a gem, she is the most incredibly intelligent and mother, author. Anything she writes is GOLD!
Gentle Birth, Gentle Mothering: A Doctor's Guide to Natural Childbirth and Gentle Early Parenting Choices
Everyone who is pregnant needs to read this book. It might not resonate 100% with everyone, but it is so good to think about this.
Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder