Childbearing Year Resources

The childbearing year encompasses three distinct stages: prenatal (aka your pregnancy), birth, and postpartum. I’ve broken down resources into specific stages when appropriate, but several run the gamut of stages.

Many of the postpartum resources are geared toward the immediate postpartum phase (hence the childbearing year), but postpartum isn’t a liminal or linear experience — check out these resources whenever and wherever.

Books

All Stages

• Transformed by Birth, Britta Bushnell

Birth

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

• The Birth Partner, Penny Simkin

• Natural Hospital Birth, Cynthia Gabriel

Postpartum

• The Fourth Trimester, Kimberly Ann Johnson

• Yoga for Pelvic Floor and Postpartum, Rebecca Weisman and Meagen Satinsky

Podcasts

** Check out a few of my favorite episodes on Spotify here **

All Stages

• Evidence Based Birth

• Yoga Birth Babies

• The Birth Hour

Online Resources

Prenatal

• Spinning Babies — daily exercises for comfort and optimal baby positioning

• Prenatal Yoga Center — online yoga classes (check out their Instagram for tips!)

• Paging Dr. Fran — no-nonsense facts and advice from an OBGYN

• Evidence Based Birth — making informed birth decisions