Resources

The Seattle chapter of ICAN maintains a lending library for those wishing to borrow literature. Books may be checked out at the monthly meeting. For a detailed inventory of the lending library, you may visit our chapter’s page on LibraryThing, or see the list below:

Books:
Homebirth by Sheila Kitzinger
VBAC Companion by Diana Korte
Birth Book: Everything You Need to Know to Have a Safe and Satisfying Birth by William Sears, Martha Sears
Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth After Cesarean byNancy Wainer Cohen, Lois J. Estner
Heart and Hands: A Midwife’s Guide to Pregnancy and Birth by Elizabeth Davis
Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year by: Susun S. Weed
Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth by Ina May Gaskin
Brewer Pregnancy Hotline: What Every Pregnant Woman Should Know About Nutrition, Bedrest, and Drugs in Normal and High-Risk Pregnancy by Gail Sforza Krebs, Thomas H. Brewer
Complete Book of Breastfeeding by Marvin S. Eiger, Sally Wendkos Olds
Open Season: A Survival Guide for Natural Childbirth and VBAC in the 90’s by Nancy Wainer Cohen
Gentle Birth Choices by Barbara Harper
Birth Your Way: Choosing birth at Home or in a Birth Center by Sheila Kitzinger
A Child is Born by Lennart Nilsson, Lars Hamberger
Cesarean Voices by ICAN
Labor Progress Handbook by Penny Simkin, Ruth Ancheta
Having a Baby Naturally by Peggy O’Mara
Birthing from Within by Pam England, Rob Horowitz
Myles Textbook for Midwives by Diane M. Fraser, Maggie Cooper
A Good Birth A Safe Birth by Diane Korte
Obstetric Myths vs. Research Realities by Henci Goer
Immaculate Deception by Suzanne Arms
Mothering the Mother: How a Doula Can Help You Have a Shorter and Easier Birth by Marshall H. Klaus
Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin
Birth After Cesarean: ICAN Seattle by ICAN Seattle
Ended Beginnings: Healing Childbirth Losses by Claudia Panuthos and Catherine Romeo
Evidence Based Maternity Care: What it is and what it can achieve by Carol Sakala and Maureen Corry
Rebounding from Childbirth: Towards Emotional Recovery by Lynn Madsen

DVDs and Videos:

Orgasmic Birth
Birth Day
Psalm and Zoya: The Unassisted Homebirth of Our Twins
Gentle Birth Choices
Born in the USA
Unconventional Births
Pregnant in America

Miscellaneous:
The Pink Kit

Hypnobabies – 2 complete sets of dvds and workbook