Resource List
Additional Training
Podcast Recommendations
Recommended Reading List
- Birth Partner by Penny Simkin
- The Doula Book by Klaus, Kennell, and Klaus
- Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin
- Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
- Mother’s Intention: How Belief Shapes Birth by Kim Wildner
- Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong – and What You Really Need to Know by Emily Oster
- The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding by Diane Wiessinger, Diana West and Teresa Pitman
- The Purposeful Hustle by Deanna Singh
- Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the M
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