Booth, Trish
Family-Centered Education: The Process of Teaching Birth
1995, 8.00
IC0095
Designed to help childbirth educators apply adult education principles to their teaching. Includes class activities, self assessments and evaluation tools.

Caton, Donald
What a Blessing She Had Chloroform: The Medical and Social Response to the Pain of Childbirth from 1800 to the Present
1999, 35.00h (no discount)
ND0908
This book presents the reader with all the history regarding the medical and social response to childbirth pain in order that they may be able to examine and define their own individual response and philosophy.

Chalmers, Beverly, and Kowswer Omer-Hashi
Female Genital Mutilation and Obstetric Care
2003, 19.95q (no discount)
ND0463
Includes rare photographs and unique information on FGM from medical, social, cultural, religious, psychological, and sexual perspectives.

Chalmers and Levin
Humane Perinatal Care
2001, 17.00q
EP2108
Reestablishing women, their partners, and their babies as the key players in perinatal care is the primary focus of this text. Essential reading for professionals and families.

Deck, Michelle
Instant Teaching Tools for the New Millennium
2004, 39.95q (no discount)
ND0454
Third book in the popular series of practical, innovative teaching manuals created for educators and trainers in the health care field.

Ellis, Barbara Ross
From Start to Finish... A Practical Guide for Your Labor Support Business
1992, 5.00s
ICPP29
Offers sound and practical advice on starting your own practice and dealing with the practical matters of the practice and presenting yourself professionally.

Enkin, Murray; Keirse, Marc; & Chalmers, Iain
A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth, 3rd edition
2000, 36.50q (no discount)
ND1021
Based on a decade-long study of controlled trials in obstetric care concerning different aspects of care and treatment. Describes the approaches and decisions that have been demonstrated effective and those for which the evidence is inconclusive or negative.

Gopnik, Meltzoff, and Kuhl
The Scientist in the Crib: What Learning Tells Us About the Mind
1999, 14.00q
EP2501
Discusses important discoveries about how much babies and young children know and about how much parents naturally teach them.

Gurevich, Rachel
The Doula Advantage
2003, 12.95q
EP0420
This book shares the results of the author's interviews with over 235 women and birth professionals, Including information on ways doulas offer support, how to find and hire a doula, and how doulas help before and after birth.

Ilse, Sherokee
Giving Care, Taking Care, Support for the Helpers
1996, 8.50q
GL9603
A book for providers and consumers who give of themselves to help others. Practical advice from people who have been there.

James, Mahomed, Stone, Van Wijingaarden, and Hill
Evidence-Based Obstetrics
2003, 47.95 (no discount)
ND3018
Sets out the recognized management options and backs them up with an analysis of the evidence supporting these decisions.

Johnson, Peter, Kirstie Flood, and Karen Spinks
The Newborn Child
9th ed., 2003, 39.95 q (no discount)
ND0320
Provides evidence-based introduction to the medical and nursing care of healthy, sick, and malformed babies, from conception through the first month after birth. Comprehensive overview of prenatal care, from normal infant care to complex care of extreme preterm infants.

Joyce and Villanueva
Say it in Spanish -- A Guide for Health Care Professionals
2000, 2nd ed., 24.95 (no discount)
ND0380
Written for providers who do not speak Spanish but have clients who do. Helps communicate more effectively in first aid and emergency settings, routine home visits, admissions, testing, and other clinical situations. Audiotape included.

Kapit and Elson
The Anatomy Coloring Book
2002, 20.00q
PB2050
This book provides a clear and concise understanding of anatomy, using an interactive approach. The coloring process thoroughly fixes anatomical concepts in the learner's mind.

Keller, Trudy & Ron
Pregnancy, Birth and You - Teacher's Guide and Curriculum
1995, 8.00
IC1995
Teacher's guide and curriculum providing a detailed plan for using the class manual Pregnancy, Birth and You. Included are learner objectives, teaching outlines, activities, discussion questions and resources for perinatal teaching.

Kennedy, Jane
HIV in Pregnancy and Childbirth
2003, 29.95 q
EP0303
A comprehensive look at the subject in a practical manner, covering epidemiology, transmission, the disease progress, and the provision for holistic pregnancy care.

Klaus, Klaus & Kennell
Bonding
1995, 16.00q
EP1075
This important work explores the effects of various birth practices and situations - prenatal testing, labor support, testing of newborns, breastfeeding, prematurity, and adoption - on the parents' feelings and on the development of later attachment and independence.

Klaus, Marshall, John Kennell, and Phyllis Klaus
The Doula Book
2003, 20.00 q
EP9347
Complete update of authors' earlier work, Mothering the Mother, adds much new and important research. Provides information regarding the advantages of working with a doula and advice on finding a doula.

Limbo, Rana, & Wheeler, Sara Rich
Resolve Through Sharing -- A Parent Support Group Guide
1989, 12.50r
EP8807
Complete guide for grief support facilitators who have questions about how to deal with group problems as well as a guide for those just starting a group. Appendix includes numerous sample forms.

Lipson, Dibble & Minarik
Culture and Nursing Care: A Pocket Guide
1995, 21.95r (no discount)
ND9735
A general set of guidelines for health care providers regarding the similarities and differences between and within different cultural groups. Twenty-four cultural groups are included.
Culture and Nursing Care was reviewed in the Summer 1998 issue of ICEA Bookmarks.

Livingston and Dennedy
Innovative Teaching Strategies Handbook for Birth Professionals
2003, 15.95q
EP1103
Perfect for educators, the authors have collected dozens of ways to encourage active learning in childbearing families. All teaching activities succinctly explained.

Lowdermilk, Perry & Bobak
Maternity and Women's Health Care
9th ed., 2007, 84.95h (no discount)
ND0408
Comprehensive, integrated presentation of physiologic, pathophysiologic and psychosocial knowledge as a basis for effective nursing assessment and action.

Mager, Robert F.
Preparing Instructional Objectives
1997, 19.95q
EP0412
A guide for preparing effective instruction and writing objectives.

Nichols, Francine, & Humenick, Sharron
Childbirth Education: Practice, Research and Theory
2000, 66.95h (no discount)
ND8007
Comprehensive textbook combining holistic and humanistic approaches to childbirth education. Contributions from thirty-three experts cover a full range of topics.

O'Leary, Joann, Lynnda Parker, and Clare Thorwich
After Loss - Parenting in the Next Pregnancy
1998, 24.95r
EP9914
A manual for professionals working with families in pregnancy following loss includes theory, developmental cycles of parenting, technology/antepartum testing, support groups, childbirth preparation, and postpartum.
After Loss was reviewed in the Fall 2000 issue of ICEA Bookmarks.

Pascali-Bonara, Arnold, and Ringel
Nurturing Beginnings: MotherLove's Guide to Postpartum Home Care for Doulas and Outreach Workers
2000, 69.99
EP0903
This manual is an educational tool for those studying to become postpartum doulas. Three-hole punched.

Peckham, Dorothy
ICEA Guide for Childbirth Educators
1988, .75
ICE0549
Comprehensive text for childbirth educators. Sections deal with beginning to teach, basics of childbirth education, coping mechanisms for the childbearing year, working with attendants and staff, difficulties and interventions and postpartum. Complete appendices. Three-hole punched, shrink-wrapped.

Perez, Polly
Birth Balls
2000, 6.95
EP0901
A guide for educators using birth balls in class. Provides information on history of birth balls, ball sizing, safety tips, care, cleaning, and prenatal and childbirth education uses.

Perez & Thelen
Doula Programs: How to Start and Run a Private or Hospital-Based Program With Success
1998, 29.95q
EP9841
Offers a wealth of information for those who are currently working as doulas or wish to start a doula practice. Includes information on planning, starting, marketing, third party reimbursement, evaluating a program and much more.
Doula Programs was reviewed in the Summer 1998 issue of ICEA Bookmarks.

Perez, Paulina, & Cheryl Snedeker
Special Women: The Role of the Professional Labor Assistant
2000, 13.95q
EP0707
Revised edition. Addresses the concerns of the labor support person. Includes information about working with other health care providers. Offers suggestions and help in setting up a practice providing monitrice and doula services.

Perkins, Barbara Bridgman
The Medical Delivery Business -- Healthy Reform, Childbirth, and the Economic Order
2004, 42.95h
EP0465
Author uses examples drawn from maternal and infant care to argue that the business approach in medicine is not a new development.

Phillips, Celeste
* Family-Centered Maternity Care
1994, 1.75s
IC9441
A comprehensive discussion of FCMC to help consumers and health care providers understand FCMC care models. Includes the practice, theory and philosophy of FCMC.

Podgurski, Mary Jo
Games Educators Play
1996, 24.95q
EP9910
Manual includes interactive games and role plays suitable for use in childbirth education, parenting education, breastfeeding education, and professional workshops. Each includes subject, target population, overview, objectives, preparation and educator tips.
Games Educators Play was reviewed in the Fall/Winter 1999/2000 issue of ICEA Bookmarks.

Podgurski, Mary Jo
Games Educators Play 2
2002, 34.95 r
EP0307
An additional book of games for educators to use in class. Includes keys to use, guideline overview, flow, ice-breakers, and more.

Riordan & Auerbach
Study Guide for Breastfeeding and Human Lactation
1999, 23.00 (no discount)
ND0594
Offers strategies, skills and assessment tools to use when working with breastfeeding mothers and infants; includes cross-cultural perspectives on breastfeeding and early childbearing.

Robertson, Andrea
Empowering Women - Teaching Active Birth in the '90s
1994, 5.00s (no discount)
ND0725
A teaching guide for educators, sets out the basics for empowering women through education.

Robertson, Andrea
The Midwife Companion
1997, 18.00q (no discount)
ND0715
Explains how birth companions can provide the best for laboring women by creating birth environments that encourage natural instinctive behaviors. Provides self-help techniques and low-tech solutions for pain in labor and for reducing medical intervention.

Shoemaker, Mae
Postnatal Curriculum Guide
1998, 8.00
IC1998
A guide and resource written for those who teach or plan to teach postnatal classes. Divided into fifteen different topics ranging from The New Mother to Health Care for the Infant to Developing a Healthy Lifestyle. Also includes information on preparing to teach postpartum classes and support materials. Each section inlcudes learner objectives, outline and teaching strategies. 139 pages, three-hole punched, shrink-wrapped.

Silva, Alicia
Preventing and Managing Back Pain During Pregnancy
2004, 14.95q
EP2520
Describes why pregnant women develop back pain and provides programs with illustrations to help the expectant woman achieve a backpain-free pregnancy.

Simkin, Penny, and Ruth Ancheta
The Labor Progress Handbook
2005, 29.95q
EP2020
Focuses on ways to prevent dystocia and to manage or treat it before it becomes severe. Designed for easy reference, this book allows caregivers to identify appropriate interventions quickly.

Simkin, Penny, and Phyllis Klaus
When Survivors Give Birth -- Understanding and Healing the Effects of Early Sexual Abuse on Childbearing Women
2004, 32.95q
EP5401
Provides practical techniques to aid readers -- abuse survivors, health care professionals, and others -- in understanding and healing the effects of childhood sexual abuse. For all who work with the childbearing woman.

Wagner, Marsden
Pursuing the Birth Machine
1994, 25.00s (no discount)
ND0720
A look at birth technology, the World Health Organization and the conflicts that exist in formulating health care policy.

Waters, Bette
Massage During Pregnancy
1998, 2nd edition, 16.95q
EP9936
Offers information about massage of the pregnant client. Includes becoming a doula/labor support person, marketing prenatal massage during pregnancy, history taking and assessment, and recordkeeping.