Reading List

Here are the books I’ve been recommended, have read and loved, or plan to read over the next few months and years:

Pregnancy

• What To Expect What You’re Expecting by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
• Your Pregnancy Week by Week by Dr Lesley Regan

Birth

• Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
• Effective Birth Preparation by Maggie Howell
• New Active Birth by Janet Balaskas

Parenting

• What To Expect When You’re Breastfeeding, and What To Do If You Can’t by Clare Byam-Cook
• French Children Don’t Throw Food by Pamela Druckerman
• The New Contented Little Baby Book by Gina Ford
• The Happiest Baby in the Block by Harvey Karp
• Secrets of the Baby Whisperer by Tracy Hogg and Melinda Blau
• What To Expect The First Year by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel

Children’s Books

• Dogger by Shirley Hughes
• Red Cat Blue Cat by Brixtonite author Jenni Desmond

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