Reading reading reading

I have done a lot of reading this year. Both for pure enjoyment, relaxation and entertainment as well as for my doula courses, which although is technically studying is not mutually exclusive from the enjoyment side either. Thankfully, else it would have been a huge chore!

I have just updated the library section of my doula site... These books are just the ones I have read this year which I also OWN, and they are now part of my lending library:

- The Doula Advantage: Your Complete Guide to Having an Empowered and Positive Birth with the Help of a Professional Childbirth Assistant.

Author: Rachel Gurevich

- The Doula Book: How a Trained Labor Companion Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth.
Author: Marshall H. Klaus

- Partners in Birth: Your Complete Guide to Helping a Mother Give Birth
Author: Kathy Cain

- Active Birth, Revised Edition: The New Approach to Giving Birth Naturally - I also have a first edition from the early 1980s.
Author: Janet Balaskas

- New Natural Pregnancy: Practical Wellbeing from Conception to Birth
Author: Janet Balaskas

- Preparing for Birth with Yoga: an old edition but still has much useful information.
Author: Janet Balaskas

-Yoga For Pregnancy: a union of body, mind and spirit.
Author: Amber Land

The New Pregnancy & Childbirth: choices and challenges.
Author: Shiela Kitzinger

- Stand and Deliver!: And Other Brilliant Ways to Give Birth
Author: Emma Mahony

- Mommy Please Don’t Cry: There Are No Tears in Heaven. “Mommy, Please Don’t Cry is a book of love and comfort for mothers who have experienced the deep sorrow of losing a child. Serene illustrations frame gentle words that describe heaven from a child’s perspective.
Author: Linda Deymaz

- The Great Ormond Street New Baby and Child Care Book A very comprehensive pregnancy and child-care book. At 640 pages of straight text, uncluttered by drawings or photographs, the style is not dense; it remains very readable and can be read from start to finish–take a journey through your child’s conception and early years–or dipped into using the index.
Author: Tessa Hilton (Author), Maire Messenger (Author), Philip Graham (Editor)

Additionally to this I have also read:

The Birth Partner: Everything You Need to Know to Help a Woman Through Childbirth
Author: Penny Simkin

Mothering the Mother: How a Doula Can Help You Have a Shorter, Easier, and Healthier Birth
Author: by Marshall H. Klaus, John H. Kennell & Phyllis H. Klaus

Practical Pregnancy, Birth & Early Parenting (no on-line link found)
Author: Irene Bourquin

When A Baby Dies Book - A Handbook for Healing and Helping
Author Rana K. Limbo & Sara Rich Wheeler

You and Your Newborn Baby: A Guide to the First Months After Birth (Paperback)
Author: Linda Todd

Then I have also read various journals, on-line articles and mailing lists and sites... I also respond to questions on various pregnancy and parenting forums. I have watched many many birth movies, on YouTube and on DVD, and even have a documentary on circumcision. I ahev also seen 9 babies born this year.

Oh and not to mention my full to bursting lever arch file of notes... best I get started on that, because I HAVEN'T actually read that yet, and that's what the exam is on. But it is all covered in the books so I am not too worried.