Christian Doulas

Come on in,  pull up a cozy chair, and browse through our selection of used pregnancy, childbirth, and child rearing books.  If you live in Bloomington, consider this a lending library, and send me a request to borrow any of these books.  If you'd like to purchase them, please visit our store.

by Helen Good Brenneman

Lovely Christian meditations for the new mother, filled with  Scripture, prayers, hymns, and poems.

by Lennart Nilsson.  A gorgeous, full color photo journal that follows the development of a child from conception through birth.

by Hans Reich.  This is a beautiful hardback book of artistic black and white photographs of babies with their mothers from all over the world.

Amazing pictures of international women breastfeeding their nurslings.

I couldn't find a picture from this book to post as an example, but here is one Reich took for a similar book about fathers.  His work is striking and very memorable.  If you love babies of every hue, you will adore this book!

The standard week-by-week guide to pregnancy, still very readable and useful after a couple of decades.

This is a perfect gift for your new client, especially if she approaches you for doula services early in her pregnancy.  As a way of advertising your services, buy a few and give them to a local midwife or OB to hand out with your business card taped on the cover.

The complete and authoritative guide to child health care, from the American Academy of Pediatrics.  This is an excellent gift for your client after the birth of that first baby.

by Elizabeth Noble.  A guide to Health and Comfort Before and After Your Baby is Born.

by Frederick Leboyer.  A classic of natural childbirth. Hard back.

La Leche Internationa's definitive guide to life with your nursling.  Another good "welcome-to-the-World-of-Air" baby gift.

by Glade B. Curtis.  This is another basic guide to the forty weeks a woman becomes God's handmaiden in providing for Him a place to do His knitting.

by La Leche League International. Written by Anne Engelhardt and Cheryl Sullivan. Great for homeschooling families, as well as anyone who wants to get ideas about how to be more interactive and creative with your preschooler.

by MaryAnn F. Kohl.  This book is full of illustrations that help you create a creative and enriching environment for your small child.

by Susan K. Perry. Unplug your kids from the T.V. and the computer and have fun playing with them! Full of great ideas for families.

by Darcie Sanders and Marha M. Bullen. Good information and motivation for making the switch that increases your joy, your children's well being, and your God's glory (though this book is not based in faith).

How to Calm, Connect, and Communicate with Your Baby.  by Tracy Hogg.  Hard back.

by Gary Ezzo.  All about getting babies back to sleep.

Fitness and nutrition after pregnancy. by Deborah Mackin.

Nutrition Guide and Recipes for Healthy Eating--From PlanningYour Pregnancy through Nursing Your Child. by Hope Ricciotti.

Also available in revised and expanded edition.

 by Dr. Jane MacDougall

Everything you need to know about yourself and your developing baby. 

Your personal journey through prepared childbirth.  This is a very thorough workbook to prepare a couple for natural childbirth.

The Complete Guide by Penny Simkin, Janet Whalley, and Ann Keppler.

Expanded and Updated edition.

by Glade B. Curtis, author of Your Pregnancy Week by Week

includes sections on health concerns, multiple births, managing fatigue, and workplace safety

by Ellen Banks Elwell

Hundreds of ideas, tips, and activities to help you be a great mom, including help with how to throw a great birthday party, how to successfully survive car trips, and how to deal with toddlers.

by Janet Balaskas, foreword by Dr. William Sears

An instinctive approach to nurturing your infant.

by Dr. Jane MacDougall

understand the changes and chart the progress of you and your baby.

by Connie L. Agnew, Alan H. Klein, and Jill Alison Ganon.

A very good, all-around resource for a Mama with multiples.

by Jonathan Scher

The most up-to-date information on : why pregnanies fail, new medical tests that pinpoint the causes, latest treatments available to prevednt loss of pregnancy

by Rose Elliot

A unique and invaluable guide to raising a baby on a healthy vegetarian diet.

A practical A-to-Z reference to natural and conventional treatments for infants and children.  This book is a good guide to safe and effective relief of common childhood disorders using nutritional supplements, herbs, homeopathy, acupressure, diet, and conventional medicine.

30-minute prenatal workout, plus a 20-minute after baby shape up.

3rd Edition, by Marvin S. Eiger and Sally Wendkos Olds.

Maintaining Strength, Flexibitlity, and your Figure. by Mari Winsor wtih Mark Laska