Pregnancy and birth books

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• What To Expect When You're ExpectingHeidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee

  What To Expect When You're Expecting

  Heidi Murkoff, Arlene Eisenberg, Sandee Hathaway

  The best-known mass-market week-by-week pregnancy guide; it set the format many later books copied.

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• Our Bodies, OurselvesBoston Women's Health Book Collective

  Our Bodies, Ourselves

  Boston Women's Health Book Collective

  A women's health guide that treats pregnancy and birth as part of women's own knowledge of their bodies; it began as a small pamphlet and grew into a major book.

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• Ina May's Guide to ChildbirthIna May Gaskin

  Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

  Ina May Gaskin

  Draws on decades of midwifery practice at The Farm community in Tennessee and is a central text for the case for unmedicated, midwife-attended birth.

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• Expecting BetterEmily Oster

  Expecting Better

  Emily Oster

  Reviews the research behind common pregnancy advice and explains how to weigh evidence about specific risks and choices.

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• Childbirth Without FearGrantly Dick-Read

  Childbirth Without Fear

  Grantly Dick-Read

  A founding text of the natural childbirth movement, arguing that fear and tension increase pain in labour.

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