withwoman's top 150 midwifery books!

this page contains links to over 150 midwifery books, click on any of the links below to go to the relevant page on amazon.co.uk (the link will open in a separate page, so you can "click to buy" if you like the look of the book or close it down if you don't and in either case you can then come back here and look at more! if you then click through on another book, it should be added onto your order with the first. of course, you don't have to use our links, or buy the books from amazon, but if you do, it won't cost you any more than normal, and amazon gives us a small percentage of what they make, which we use to pay for the hosting and upkeep of the web site ~ so thank you very much to all of you nice people who use our links and help keep us online! hope you find the page useful ~ please email any comments or suggestions for additions!

 

Featured Books

some because they're new, some because they're classic, some because they have nothing to do with birth or midwifery but we like the look of them anyway!

we hope to be putting more ideas up before the holidays!

 

   
   

Sheila Kitzinger ~ The Politics of Birth

Decision Making in Midwifery Practice

   
cover

Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
   


The Difference a Day Makes...

 

 

 

 

 

In Praise of Slow ~ Carl Honore

   
   

 

Key Texts



Spiritual Midwifery



The New Midwifery



Heart and Hands



Mayes' Midwifery
NEW EDITION!






Essential Midwifery

 




Midwifery Best Practice






Volume 2

Midwifery Best Practice 2




Volume 3

Midwifery Best Practice 3




Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth



Varney's Pocket Midwife

 

 

Midwifery

the midwife-mother relationship



Professional Studies for Midwifery Practice




Failure to Progress




The Social Meaning of Midwifery



Community Midwifery



Reconceiving Midwifery



The Independent Midwife

Birth Without Doctors:
Conversations With
Traditional Midwives



Sisters on a Journey






Challenges in Midwifery Care










Supportive Care and Midwifery

 

 

Skills and Practice



Skills for Midwifery Practice



The Labour Progress Handbook



The Midwife's Labour and Birth Handbook




The Midwife's Pocket Formulary




Pocket Guide to Midwifery Care




Pharmacology for Midwives...





Resuscitation of the Newborn:
A Practical Approach

Emergencies Around Childbirth




Resuscitation in Pregnancy:
A Practical Guide






ABC of Labour Care






CTG Made Easy


Postnatal Care Evidence and Guidelines

 

Birth

 


Rediscovering Birth


Let Birth be Born Again


Birth Reborn






Eating and Drinking in Labour

Complementary
Methods of
Controlling Labour Pain






The Best Labour Possible?





The Cesarean




Silent Knife





Open Season





Waterbirth: An Attitude to Care

Waterbirth
Unplugged





Breech Birth


The Birth Partner




Birth Without Violence





Pain in Childbearing

 

Anatomy and Physiology




Anatomy and Physiology for Midwives




Physiology in Childbearing




Essential Anatomy and Physiology...





Woman: An Intimate Geography




Essential Reproduction





Principles of Anatomy and Physiology



The Anatomy Colouring Book





The Physiology Colouring Book



Clinical Anatomy

 

 

Breasts / Breastfeeding




Bestfeeding




Successful Breastfeeding




The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding





The Breastfeeding Answer Book





Feeding Our Babies:
Exploring Traditions of
Breastfeeding and
Infant Nutrition





Ultimate Breastfeeding Book of Answers






Feminism, Breasts and Breastfeeding





Milk. Money and Madness:
The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding






The Politics of Breastfeeding

Fresh Milk: The Secret Life of Breasts








Breastfeeding Special Care Babies




 

Babies



The Newborn Child



Examination of the Newborn



In the Newborn Year




The Social Baby

 




Saving Very Premature Babies

 

 

Wider Thinking

Pregnancy, Birth and Maternity Care: Feminist Perspectives

Normal Childbirth




Psychological Perspectives
on Pregnancy and Childbirth

 



Birth by Design



Pursuing the Birth Machine



The Midwife's Tale





The Farmer and the Obstetrician




The Scientification of Love





Birth as an American Rite of Passage






Obstetric Myths versus Research Realities



Culture, Religion and Childbearing
in a Multiracial Society






Social Perspectives on Pregnancy and Childbirth...



Childbirth and Authoritative Knowledge



The Rhetoric of Midwifery:
Gender, Knowledge and Power





Birth in Four Cultures

 





Reading Birth and Death





Pregnancy, Poverty
and the Healthcare Professional





The Midwife and Society

 

 

Place of Birth

Safer Childbirth?

cover

Birth Centres





Home Births:
Report of the National Birthday Trust




Special Delivery

 

 

 

Research



Introduction to Research for Midwives




Principles and Practice of Research in Midwifery



Linking Research and Practice in Midwifery

     

 

 

Law and Ethics




The Legal Aspects of Midwifery



Mother and Midwives: The Ethical Journey



The Law and the Midwife




Ethics and Midwifery



Who's Accountable?
Who's to Blame?
Views of Midwives and Obstetricians






Ethics in Midwifery

 

 

Parent Education



Birthing From Within




The Thinking Woman's Guide
to a Better Birth



Antenatal Education



Education and Support for Parenting



Leading Antenatal Classes


Empowering Women: Teaching Active Birth

 

 

Holistic Therapies



Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year


Alternative Therapies for Pregnancy and Birth


Shiatsu for Midwives

 

 

Reflexology:
A Tool For Midwives

 

Prenatal Yoga and Natural Birth




Aromatherapy for Women and Children

 


Clinical Aromatherapy for Pregnancy and Childbirth

 

 

Miscellaneous



Midwifery, Mind and Spirit



Exercises for Pregnancy and Childbirth



Anti-D in Midwifery


Effective Coaching in Healthcare


HIV in Pregnancy and Childbirth







Health Promotion in Midwifery Practice





Pregnancy and Drug Misuse



Pregnant Women, Violent Men



Understanding Obstetric Ultrasound





Child Protection: A Guide for Midwives





A Co-Operative Method of Natural Birth Control




Nausea and Vomiting in Pregnancy





Men and Maternity




The Bullying Culture





Recreating Motherhood

 

 

Fiction, Biography, Poetry and Plays




A Midwife's Tale

 




Baby Catcher

 

The Midwife's Tale




Having Faith:
An Ecologist's Journey to Motherhood



The Red Tent




Motherwit:
An Alabama Midwife's Story

The Midwife's Apprentice






Listen to Me Good




The Handmaid's Tale

Midwives



Doctor Clegg's
Machete







The Vagina Monologues

 

La Partera:
The Story of a Midwife

 




The Virago Book of Birth Poetry

Delivery:
A Nurse-Midwife's Story




A Midwife's Story


Extraordinary, Ordinary Woman: Story of Ann Garner,
a Sheffield Midwife





A Carriage for the Midwife

The King's Midwife: History and Mystery of Madame Du Coudray




Birth Stories: Mystery, Power and Creation






Call the Midwife