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Conception, Pregnancy & Childbirth -

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Related booklists: Babies and Toddlers, Babies and Pregnancy - Books for Children, Mothers & Motherhood, Multiple Births, Pregnancy and Parenthood: Books for Young Adults, Midwives and Midwifery,

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 26 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood by Emma Jane Unsworth
    After the Storm: Postnatal Depression and the Utter Weirdness of New Motherhood - by Emma Jane Unsworth

    £8.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788166553 | ISBN 10: 1788166558

    The raw, relatable call-to-arms memoir, breaking the silence on postnatal depression - from the bestselling author of Animals and Adults  An Unmissable Memoir for Summer 2021, Stylist A Hot Summer Book, Refinery29   'I am so grateful for this ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Motherhood Penalty by Joeli Brearley
    The Motherhood Penalty - by Joeli Brearley

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781398508040 | ISBN 10: 1398508047

    An eye-opening exploration of modern motherhood packed with practical advice on navigating discrimination in the workplace.   Imagine suddenly being sacked from your job. After spending years building your career, it's all taken away in just ... more

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  • Cover image of book Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan: A Revolutionary Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and the Weeks That Follow by Rebecca Schiller
    Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan: A Revolutionary Guide to Pregnancy, Birth and the Weeks That Follow - by Rebecca Schiller

    £14.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780241315804 | ISBN 10: 0241315808

    Providing you with everything you've ever wanted to know about pregnancy, this is the definitive guide from conception to the first few weeks' at home with your newborn.  Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan is a revolutionary new guide to pregnancy and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your body. Your baby. Your choices by Milli Hill
    Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your body. Your baby. Your choices - by Milli Hill

    £14.99   paperback   (2019) - ISBN 13: 9780008313104 | ISBN 10: 0008313105

    As featured on BBC Radio 5 Live.  Birth is a feminist issue. It’s the feminist issue nobody’s talking about.   For too long women have been told, ‘a healthy baby is all that matters’. This book dares to say women matter too.  Final ... more

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  • Cover image of book Coping with Pregnancy Loss by Petra Boynton
    Coping with Pregnancy Loss - by Petra Boynton

    £11.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9781138047730 | ISBN 10: 1138047732

    Pregnancy loss can leave us with many unanswered questions, and knowing where to find answers is not always clear.   This book is for you if, like me, you’ve been affected by any kind of pregnancy loss – currently or in the past. It provid ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mindful Pregnancy & Birth: Nurturing Love and Awareness by Riga Forbes
    Mindful Pregnancy & Birth: Nurturing Love and Awareness - by Riga Forbes

    £8.99   hardback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781782405054 | ISBN 10: 1782405054

    Focusing on the entire journey; from pregnancy through to early parenthood, this guide to living mindfully for expectant mothers helps prepare you for birth and improve your wellbeing with the ancient practice of mindfulness. When we talk about makin ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and Other Labor Companions by Penny Simkin
    The Birth Partner: A Complete Guide to Childbirth for Dads, Doulas, and Other Labor Companions - by Penny Simkin

    £12.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781558328808 | ISBN 10: 1558328807

    Since the original publication of The Birth Partner, new mothers' partners, friends, and relatives and doulas (professional birth assistants) have relied on Penny Simkin's guidance in caring for the new mother from the last few weeks of pregnancy thr ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Womb of Her Own: Women
    A Womb of Her Own: Women's Struggle for Sexual and Reproductive Autonomy - by Ellen L.K. Toronto, Joann Ponder, Kristin Davisson and Maurine Kelber Kelly

    £31.99   paperback   (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781138194977 | ISBN 10: 1138194972

    Gender and body-based distinctions continue to be a defining component of women’s identities, both in psychoanalytic treatment and in life. Although females have made progress in many areas, their status within the human community has remained unst ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birth in Focus: Stories and Photos to Inform, Educate and Inspire by Becky Reed, with a Foreword by Ina May Gaskin
    Birth in Focus: Stories and Photos to Inform, Educate and Inspire - by Becky Reed, with a Foreword by Ina May Gaskin

    £19.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781780662350 | ISBN 10: 1780662351

    Birth in Focus offers the reader a chance to see birth made real. Water birth, breech birth, twin birth, Caesarean birth – all are shown in ‘photo stories’, with accompanying text written both by the woman and her midwife, and sometimes also th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy by Chitra Ramaswamy
    Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy - by Chitra Ramaswamy

    £12.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910192214 | ISBN 10: 191019221x

    When Chitra Ramaswamy discovered she was pregnant, she longed for a book that went above and beyond a manual. A book that did more than simply describe what was happening in her growing body day by day, week by week and month by month.   Expec ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Homebirth Handbook: How to Have Your Baby Calmly and Safely at Home by Annie Francis
    The Homebirth Handbook: How to Have Your Baby Calmly and Safely at Home - by Annie Francis

    £10.99   paperback   (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781785040245 | ISBN 10: 1785040243

    The majority of babies throughout the world are born at home and it is mainly in developed countries (and mostly in the past few decades) that going to hospital to have your baby has become the norm.   This is all set to change as more and mor ... more

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  • Cover image of book In the Spirit of Homebirth: Modern Women, An Ancient Choice by Bronwyn Preece
    In the Spirit of Homebirth: Modern Women, An Ancient Choice - by Bronwyn Preece

    £12.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781609805791 | ISBN 10: 1609805798

    Inspired by Ina May Gaskin's Spiritual Midwifery, In the Spirit of Homebirth is a rich collection of diverse birth stories that celebrate the beauty and power inherent in the sacred act of giving birth: a much-needed and desired addition to the growi ... more

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  • Cover image of book BUMP: How to Make, Grow and Birth a Baby by Kate Evans
    BUMP: How to Make, Grow and Birth a Baby - by Kate Evans

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781908434357 | ISBN 10: 190843435x

    Kate Evans, celebrated author of the breastfeeding bestseller, The Food of Love, acclaimed cartoonist and mother, turns her attention to the joys and pains of growing a baby.   Evans deftly handles the physical and emotional changes that come ... more

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  • Cover image of book Joyous Childbirth Changes the World by Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura
    Joyous Childbirth Changes the World - by Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura

    £10.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781609805241 | ISBN 10: 1609805240

    “No matter how science has progressed, childbirth, in essence, has remained unchanged from ancient times . . . [It] is the last natural process left to us,” writes internationally lauded obstetrician Dr. Tadashi Yoshimura. “The fact that it has remai ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Natural Pregnancy Book (3rd Edition) by Aviva Jill Romm
    The Natural Pregnancy Book (3rd Edition) - by Aviva Jill Romm

    £14.99   paperback   (2014) - ISBN 13: 9781607744481 | ISBN 10: 1607744481

    A revised and updated edition of the classic handbook for women seeking a safe, organic, eco-friendly, and natural pregnancy, featuring an integrative-based approach with new medical, herbal, and nutritional information.   Every mother wants t ... more

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  • Cover image of book Expecting: Everything You Need to Know About Pregnancy, Labour and Birth by Anna McGrail and Daphne Metland
    Expecting: Everything You Need to Know About Pregnancy, Labour and Birth - by Anna McGrail and Daphne Metland

    £15.99   paperback   (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781844087730 | ISBN 10: 1844087735

    Anna and Daphne have combined their many years of experience, producing an interesting and well written book based on fact rather than opinion, covering conception to postnatal. Most expecting mothers will not be seen by the NHS until around 12 weeks ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birth Without Violence by Frédérick Leboyer, translated by Yvonne Fitzgerald
    Birth Without Violence - by Frédérick Leboyer, translated by Yvonne Fitzgerald

    £14.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781905177301 | ISBN 10: 1905177305

    Birth without Violence revolutionised the way we perceive the process of birth, urging us to consider birth from the infant's point of view. Why must a child emerge from the quiet darkness of the womb into a blaze of blinding light and loud voices? ... more

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  • Cover image of book Birth Matters: A Midwife
    Birth Matters: A Midwife's Manifesta - by Ina May Gaskin

    £9.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781905177585 | ISBN 10: 1905177585

    A woman who gives birth in the US today is more likely to die in childbirth than her mother was. With one in three babies born via cesarean, the US ranks behind thirty other nations in neonatal mortality rates, and forty other nations in maternal mor ... more

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  • Cover image of book One Born Every Minute: Real Stories from the Delivery Room by Maria Dore and Ros Bradbury
    One Born Every Minute: Real Stories from the Delivery Room - by Maria Dore and Ros Bradbury

    £8.99   paperback   (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780751546002 | ISBN 10: 0751546003

    One Born Every Minute, Channel 4’s Bafta-winning documentary series, was the critical and popular smash-hit of 2010. And in February 2011, we’ll be back on the maternity ward for twelve brand-new, thrilling episodes.   In this wonderful n ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Complete Guide to IVF: An Inside View of Fertility Clinics and Treatment by Kate Brian
    The Complete Guide to IVF: An Inside View of Fertility Clinics and Treatment - by Kate Brian

    £9.99   paperback   (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780749952495 | ISBN 10: 0749952490

    The most recent studies show that 40,000 cycles of IVF are carried out in the UK each year - and approximately a million are carried out worldwide. It is estimated that at least 200,000 IVF babies are born annually - and this figure is constantly ris ... more

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  • Cover image of book Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence by Rebecca Walker
    Baby Love: Choosing Motherhood After a Lifetime of Ambivalence - by Rebecca Walker

    £15.00   hardback   (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780285638204 | ISBN 10: 0285638203

    After a lifetime of ambivalence and uncertainty about the role of motherhood in a woman's life, Rebecca Walker, hailed by Time Magazine as one of the most influential American leaders under forty, decided to have a baby.   Raised by her mother ... more

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  • Cover image of book From the Hips: A Comprehensive, Open-minded, Uncensored, Totally Honest Guide to Pregnancy, Birth... by Rebecca Odes and Ceridwen Morris
    From the Hips: A Comprehensive, Open-minded, Uncensored, Totally Honest Guide to Pregnancy, Birth... - by Rebecca Odes and Ceridwen Morris

    £17.99   paperback   (2007) - ISBN 13: 9780307237088 | ISBN 10: 0307237087

    Drawing on the experiences of hundreds of real parents and the expertise of doctors, midwives and other birth and baby pros, this indispensable resource is filled with the most accurate and up-to-date information about having and caring for a baby, i ... more

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  • Cover image of book Grief Unseen: Healing Pregnancy Loss Through the Arts by Laura Seftel
    Grief Unseen: Healing Pregnancy Loss Through the Arts - by Laura Seftel

    £19.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781843108054 | ISBN 10: 1843108054

    At least one in five pregnancies end in miscarriage, yet pregnancy loss remains a taboo topic and effective aftercare is rarely available for those who have experienced it. Grief Unseen explains the different kinds of childbearing losses, such as fai ... more

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  • Cover image of book Home Birth: A Practical Guide by Nicky Wesson
    Home Birth: A Practical Guide - by Nicky Wesson

    £8.99   paperback   (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781905177066 | ISBN 10: 1905177062

    A perfect balance of practical information, compelling personal stories and research evidence, "Home Birth" is essential reading for all couples considering the alternative to a hospital birth. Leading childbirth educator Nicky Wesson dispels many co ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Guy
    The Guy's Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the First Year of Fatherhood - by Michael Crider

    £10.99   paperback   (2005) - ISBN 13: 9780738210278 | ISBN 10: 0738210277

    A man's man swaps beer bottles for baby bottles - and lives to tell the tale!  At high school, Michael Crider was the joker. Fast-forward ten years and the funny man has married and become the family man. The Guy's Guide to Surviving Pregnancy, ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spiritual Midwifery (4th revised edition) by Ina May Gaskin
    Spiritual Midwifery (4th revised edition) - by Ina May Gaskin

    £22.00   paperback   (2002) - ISBN 13: 9781570671043 | ISBN 10: 1570671044

    The classic book on home birth!  The first section details the experiences of parents and midwives during the birth experience. The second section is a technical manual for midwives, nurses, and doctors.  Includes information on prenatal ca ... more

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