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Reading Requirements - Parenting

Birth & Postpartum Doulas must read 3 books,
Childbirth Educators and Breastfeeding Counselors must read 5 books

You can choose any books from the full reading list - categories are on the left

Books on parenting

The Continuum Concept

The Attachment Parenting Book: A Commonsense Guide to Understanding and Nurturing Your Baby

Author: William & Martha Sears

Amazon Description: Attachment Parenting encourages early, strong, and sustained attention to the new baby's needs and this book outlines the steps that will create the most lasting bonds between parents and their children. Practical and inspirational, this book, the heart of the Sears parenting creed, is a necessity for every new parents' bookshelf.

The Continuum Concept

The Continuum Concept: In Search Of Happiness Lost

Author: Jean Liedloff

Amazon Description: Jean Liedloff, an American writer, spent two and a half years in the South American jungle living with Stone Age Indians. The experience demolished her Western preconceptions of how we should live and led her to a radically different view of what human nature really is. She offers a new understanding of how we have lost much of our natural well-being and shows us practical ways to regain it for our children and for ourselves.


Attachment Parenting: Instinctive Care for Your Baby and Young Child

Author: Katie Allison Granju & William Sears

Amazon Description: Information is provided in a well-organized format that parents will find useful. This book also provides a fairly broad discussion of how working parents can incorporate such a "high-touch" style of care into their busy schedules. The authors are sometimes painfully straightforward about the cost-benefit analysis parents must go through when deciding to work outside the home, but they do not patronize working parents by glossing over this difficult decision. They show how Attachment Parenting can be especially beneficial to these families and give advice on choosing child care, breastfeeding after returning to work, and the techniques for creating a breastfeeding-friendly workplace. As a whole, parents will find this a good overview of some compelling arguments for Attachment Parenting and a wonderful resource for delving deeper into the issues it addresses.

The Baby Book

The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two

Author: William Sears, Martha Sears, Robert Sears & James Sears

Amazon Description: Attachment parenting is a gentle, reasonable approach to parenting that stresses bonding with your baby, responding to her cues, breastfeeding, "wearing" your baby, and sharing sleep with your child. For those parents who worry about negative effects of this attention, the Sears say, "Spoiling is what happens when you leave something (or some person) alone on the shelf--it spoils."


The Vaccine Book: Making the Right Decision for Your Child

Author: Robert Sears

Amazon Description: Sears' goal is "to give you a balanced look at pros and cons of vaccination so that you can make an educated decision." Sears does not advocate for or rail against vaccination, stating it doesn't have to be an all or nothing decision-there are choices. Sears does offer guidance for those who are indecisive, offering his opinion based on clinical experience and 13 years of research taken from product inserts, pediatric reference books, articles and databases. Additional chapters illuminate more controversial aspects of the debate, such as how vaccine safety is researched and what the findings are, side effects and how to minimize them, common myths and questions.


Primal Health: Understanding the Critical Period Between Conception and the First Birthday

Author: Michel Odent

Other Languages: French

Amazon Description: In this prophetic book [Odent] argues that different parts of the ‘primal adaptive system’ develop, regulate and adjust themselves during fetal life and the time around birth and infancy. He suggests that the later well-being of adults, their ability to withstand the "diseases of civilization" such as hypertension, cancer, alcoholism and failures of the immune system resulting in AIDS, allergies and viral diseases, can all be traced back to society’s ignorance of the vital importance of the primal period. Since the first edition of this groundbreaking work, research has continued apace, offering further evidence to substantiate Odent’s ideas. This book is essential reading for all who care about the health of our children and the ongoing health of society as a whole.

Books in Other Categories

Pregnancy
Prenatal Testing
Childbirth Education
Labor & Birth
Doula Support
Pain in Labor
Alternatives to Hospital Birth
Parenting
Fatherhood
Sleep Issues
Depression
Breastfeeding
Breastfeeding Politics
Communication & Counseling
Midwives Tales
Grief & Loss
Disability & Abnormality
Evidence-Based Care
Birth Politics
Birth, Culture & Society
Cesarean & VBAC
Fertility & Infertility
Anatomy & Physiology
Other Languages
Printable list of all books
Summary list to print

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