Favorite Pregnancy & Birth Books

  • Expecting Better, Emily Oster

  • Nurture, Erica Chidi Cohen

  • Transformed by Birth, Britta Bushnell

  • Natural Hospital Birth, Cynthia Gabriel

  • Birthing from Within, Pam England & Rob Horowitz

  • Like a Mother, Angela Garbes

  • Ina May’s Guide to Childbirth, Ina May Gaskin

  • Spiritual Midwifery, Ina May Gaskin

  • Ancient Map for Modern Birth, Pam England

  • The Birth Partner, Penny Simkin

  • Real Food for Pregnancy, Lily Nichols

  • Real Food for Gestational Diabetes, Lily Nichols

Favorite Books on Postpartum and Infancy

  • The Fourth Trimester, Kimberly Ann Johnson

  • How Not to Hate Your Husband After Kids, Jancee Dunn

  • Cribsheet, Emily Oster

  • The Happy Sleeper, Heather Turgeon and Julie Wright

  • The Happiest Baby on the Block, Harvey Karp

  • The No Cry Sleep Solution, Elizabeth Pantley

  • Strange Situation: A Mother’s Journey into the Science of Attachment, Bethany Saltman

Favorite Parenting Books

  • Hunt, Gather, Parent, Michaeleen Doucleff

  • The Nurture Assumption, Judith Rich Harris

  • Why Gender Matters, Leonard Sax

  • Ordinary Insanity: Fear and the Silent Crisis of Motherhood in America, Sarah Menkedick

  • NurtureShock, Ashley Merryman and Po Bronson

  • Peaceful Parent, Happy Siblings, Laura Markham

  • How Toddlers Thrive, Tovah Klein

Orange County Referrals

Acupuncture & Craniosacral:

Counterpoint Acupuncture & Wellness

Mommy & Me Classes:

The New Mom School, Newport Beach/Costa Mesa

The Mommy Center, Laguna Hills, San Juan Capistrano

Midwives

Empowered Care Midwifery

Postpartum & Overnight Doulas

Duo Love Doula

Childbirth Education

Britta Bushnell, PhD

Mental Health