Beth Anne Moonstone, CPM, Midwife
Amherst, MA 413.230.3918
Serving the Pioneer Valley & West Central Massachusetts
beth@womancraft.org

Research

Home birth

Outcomes of Planned Home Births with Certified Professional Midwives: Large Prospective Study in North America.
by Kenneth C Johnson, senior epidemiologist,
Betty-Anne Daviss, project manager.
BMJ 2005;330:1416 (18 June).

Meta-analysis of the Safety of Home Birth

by Ole Olsen.
Birth, 1997 - Blackwell Synergy

Closing the Theory-Practice Gap: Intrapartum Midwifery
Management of Planned Homebirths

Saraswathi Vedam, CNM, MSN, Meredith Goff, CNM, MS,
and Vicki Nolan Marnin, CNM, MSN
J Midwifery Womens Health 2007;52:291-300

Home Birth: The Medical Literature on the Safety of Home Birth
James Hughes, Ph.D.
Home Birth Research: Citations from the medical literature that generally demonstrate the safety of home births.

 

Books

Pregnancy and Birth

 

History of Childbirth/Politics of Birth

For siblings

Newborn Care and Parenting Issues

Breastfeeding

Nutrition

Vaccines

 

Circumcision

 

Other suggestions

Mothering Magazine

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