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The Light Pirate
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The Light Pirate

By Lily Brooks-Dalton ,

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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
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Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

By Lisa See ,

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What Makes a Baby
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What Makes a Baby

By Cory Silverberg , Fiona Smyth (illustrator) ,

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The Midwife's Apprentice
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The Midwife's Apprentice

By Karen Cushman ,

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An Ordinary Day
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An Ordinary Day

By Elana K. Arnold , Elizabet Vukovic (illustrator) ,

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Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife
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Baby Catcher

By Peggy Vincent ,

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Make Room for Daddy: The Journey from Waiting Room to Birthing Room
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Make Room for Daddy

By Judith Walzer Leavitt ,

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Birthing Justice: Black Women, Pregnancy, and Childbirth
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Birthing Justice

By Julia Oparah (editor) , Alicia Bonaparte (editor) ,

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Breastfeeding…Naturally
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Breastfeeding…Naturally

By Jill Day ,

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Sufferers and Healers: The Experience of Illness in Seventeenth-Century England
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Sufferers and Healers

By Lucinda McCray Beier ,

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Making a Baby
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Making a Baby

By Rachel Greener , Clare Owen (illustrator) ,

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Birth and the Dialogue of Love
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Birth and the Dialogue of Love

By Marilyn A. Moran ,

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Home Birth On Your Own Terms
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Home Birth On Your Own Terms

By Heather Baker ,

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Unassisted Childbirth
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Unassisted Childbirth

By Laura Kaplan Shanley ,

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Emergency Childbirth: A Manual
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Emergency Childbirth

By Gregory J. White ,

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Birth as an American Rite of Passage
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Birth as an American Rite of Passage

By Robbie Davis-Floyd ,

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Spiritual Midwifery
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Spiritual Midwifery

By Ina May Gaskin ,

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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth
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Ina May's Guide to Childbirth

By Ina May Gaskin ,

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Giving Birth with Confidence
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Giving Birth with Confidence

By Judith Lothian , Charlotte DeVries ,

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Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn: The Complete Guide
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Pregnancy, Childbirth, and the Newborn

By Penny Simkin , Janet Whalley , Ann Keppler , Janelle Durham , April Bolding

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Pushed: The Painful Truth about Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
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Pushed

By Jennifer Block ,

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Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950
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Brought to Bed

By Judith Walzer Leavitt ,

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Letters to Alice: On First Reading Jane Austen
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Letters to Alice

By Fay Weldon ,

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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood
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The Girlfriends' Guide to Surviving the First Year of Motherhood

By Vicki Iovine ,

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The Second Nine Months: One Woman Tells the Real Truth about Becoming a Mom. Finally.
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The Second Nine Months

By Vicki Glembocki ,

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Blessed Events: Religion and Home Birth in America
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Blessed Events

By Pamela E. Klassen ,

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Imagery, Ritual, and Birth: Ontology between the Sacred and the Secular
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Imagery, Ritual, and Birth

By Anna M. Hennessey ,

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After Birth
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After Birth

By Elisa Albert ,

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Book of Hours: Poems
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Book of Hours

By Kevin Young ,

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Reproduction
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Reproduction

By Louisa Hall ,

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Eleven Hours
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Eleven Hours

By Pamela Erens ,

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Orgasmic Birth: Your Guide to a Safe, Satisfying, and Pleasurable Birth Experience
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Orgasmic Birth

By Elizabeth Davis , Debra Pascali-Bonaro ,

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The Mysteries of Montreal: Being Recollections of a Female Physician
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The Mysteries of Montreal

By Charlotte Fuhrer ,

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