A Teeny Tiny Baby
By Amy Schwartz
Published in 1994 by Orchard Books
95 Madison Aven. NY, NY 10016

Reviewed By Stephanie D’ArcangeloThis lighthearted book tells the story of what babies like and do not like from the perspective of the baby. It contains many positive illustrations of baby breastfeeding, sleep sharing and baby wearing. What is special about this book is that the baby “says” he likes to nurse often and even at night. The bbay also prefers to sleep with his parents rather than the cradle. The book entertains children while giving parents an accurate and positive picture of attachment parenting.

We Like to Nurse
By Chia Martin
Reviewed by PA-MILC

The very positive and normal images of nursing are printed in crisp bright colors with simple text. The animals portrayed in the book also take on some human feelings and characteristics, like “purring with delight,” cuddling, protecting, being sheltered, and hugging as they nurse. The book ends with a human mother and baby nursing with the caption “We like to nurse”: So normal, so natural. A very sweet book to read and talk about with younger children, and an easy reader for preschoolers and early elementary students just learning to read.

Birth Chairs, Midwives, and Medicine
By Amanda Carson Banks
Reviewed by Misty DeLuca

This book provides a very interesting and informative detail of the history of birth culture in America as discovered through the study of birth chairs. The book explains well the use and misuse of birth chairs in natural childbirth. It also includes intriguing pictorial and historical documentations of birth chairs and how they evolved into the modern maternity beds in use today in hospital births.

The Labor Progress Handbook
By Penny Simkin & Ruth Ancheta
Reviewed by Misty DeLuca

This is an excellent and well-titled book. It has wonderful flow charts and many diagrams that help you to determine what steps to take when you are faced with a slow-progressing labor. It explains fetal positions and malpositions and ways to encourage the baby to rotate and descend. It has sections on emotional dystocia during 1st & 2nd stages and numerous ways to treat prolonged 1st & 2nd stages of labor. A very comprehensive book! And a must for every Doula’s library and birth bag. This book would also prove helpful to Midwives, Nurses, and involved Physicians and parents.

Rediscovering Birth
By Sheila Kitzinger
Published May 2001 by Little, Brown and Company (UK)
Reviewed by Misty DeLuca

This book challenges our way of thinking simply by exposing us to other customs and cultures around the world. It is full of historical and cultural practices and does a great job comparing and contrasting the natural childbirth that occurs around the world with the medicalized birth practices that are common practice in the U.S.A. A truly informational and inspiring read that I would recommend to all who are interested in becoming more enlightened about birth!