Best Pregnancy Books or "What to panic about when you're panicking."

Best Pregnancy Books or "What to panic about when you're panicking" or "How to have an unmedicated caveman style birth"

SHOW NOTES: 

By listener request, we talk about pregnancy and birth books. There's a lot more than just What to Expect When You're Expecting! Plus, Beth shares her birth story.

Congratulations to Cari on the birth of her baby on July 26! Everything went well and mom and baby are doing fine!

Books we talk about:

What to Expect When You're Expecting by by Heidi Murkoff and Sharon Mazel
You're a Mom, Now What? by Peter Reader, Su Laurent, Kate Cronan and Vanessa Davies
I'm Pregnant: a Week by Week Guide from Conception to Delivery by Lesley Regan
Pregnancy Sucks by JoAnne Kimes and Leslie Young MD
Balancing Pregnancy and Work: How to Make the Most of the Next Nine Months on the Job by Nancy W. Hall and Karen Sullivan
The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth by Hency Goer and Rhonda Wheeler
The Doula Guide to Birth by Amanda Lowell
Ina May Gaskins Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
HypnoBirthing by Marie F. Mongan and Lorne R. Campbell
Birth Day by Mark Sloan MD
Husband Coached Childbirth by Dr. Robert Bradley
Pushed by Jennifer Block
The VBAC Companion by Diana Korte
The Silent Knife by Nancy Wainer Cohen
Happiest Baby on the Block by Harvey Karp

Documentaries

The Business of Being Born 

Awesome groups to be part of:

ICAN of Northeast Ohio

Websites:

Considering induction: learn your bishops score.

My OB said WHAT?!

Librarians and Writers: The Connection

Librarians and Writers: The Connection or "You have to read a lot to be a good writer. The library can help with that."

SHOW NOTES: 

Beth and Cari talk about the natural connection between writers and the library, as well as what they've learned about the publishing industry and their own writing endeavors. 

Books we talk about:

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams 

Jenny's Surprise Summer by Eugenie 

Monster at the End of this Book by Jon Stone

Carter Finally Gets It by Brent Crawford

Books for writers:

Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg

On Writing by Stephen King

From First Draft to Finished Novel by Karen Wiesner 

The Writers and Illustrators Market 2011 

Poems:

The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes