The following list is recommended reading, not only for the Titus 2 CCCE applicant, but also for the Titus 2 cbe client. The material contained in these books covers a wide variety of topics on everything from pregnancy and birth to parenting issues. There are also some videos, visual aids and magazines near the end of the list. This is, in my opinion, some of the best of the best.

Some of these books are found on the recommended and required lists of other programs.

• Dr. Richard Abrams -- Will It Hurt the Baby?
• Dr. Roger Allen -- Commonsense Discipline (the first edition paperback)
• Suzanne Arms -- Immaculate Deception
• Suzanne Arms -- Immaculate Deception II: A Fresh Look at Childbirth
• Penny Armstrong & Sherry Feldman -- A Wise Birth
• Janet Balsakas -- Active Birth
• Jane Balsakas -- Easy Exercises for Pregnancy
• Norma Jean Baumgartner -- Mothering Your Nursing Toddler
• Naomi Baumslag & Dia Michels -- Milk, Money and Madness: The Culture and Politics of Breastfeeding
• Constance A. Bean -- Methods of Childbirth
• Nancy Berezin -- The Gentle Birth Book
• Elizabeth Bing -- Making Love During Pregnancy
• J.R. Blatt -- Prenatal tests
• Billy Ray Boyd -- Circumcision; What It Does
• Dr Robert Bradley -- Husband-Coached Childbirth
• Gail Sforza Brewer -- books on nutrition
• Tom Brewer, MD -- Right From the Start
• Tom Brewer, MD -- Metabolic Toxemia of Late Pregnancy
• Tom & Gail Brewer -- What Every Woman Should Know: Truth about Diet and Drugs during Pregnancy
• Ross Campbell -- How to Really Love Your Child
• Christian Parenting Magazine -- Christian Parenting Answers: Before Birth to Five Years
• Foster Cline and Jim Faye -- Parenting with Love and Logi
• Foster Cline and Jim Faye -- Parenting Teens with Love and Logic
• Nancy Wainer Cohen -- Silent Knife
• Nancy Wainer Cohen -- Open Season
• Nancy Wainer Cohen -- Cesarean Prevention & Vaginal Birth After Cesarean
• Crawford & Walters - Natural Childbirth After Cesarean
• Nancy Crowley -- HELP! She's Having a Baby!: Emergency Childbirth, a Practical Guide
• Elizabeth Davis -- Heart and Hands
• Robbie Davis-Floyd -- Birth as an American Rite of Passage
• Grantly Dick-Read -- Childbirth Without Fear
• Ann Dunnewold -- Postpartum Survival Guide
• Murray Enkin, Marc Keirse, Mary Renfrew, James Neilson -- A Guide to Effective Care in Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Erick --No More Morning Sickness: A Survival Guide for Women
• Debra Evans -- Without Moral Limits
• Debra Evans -- The Christian Woman's Guide to Personal Health Care
• Debra Evans -- The Christian Woman's Guide to Childbirth
• Dr. Bruce Flamm -- Birth After Cesarean: The Medical Facts
• Ann Frye -- Understanding Diagnostic Tests in the Childbearing Years
• Anne Frye -- Holistic Midwifery I: A Comprehensive Textbook for Midwives in Homebirth
• Richard Fugate -- What the Bible Says About Child Training
• Ford Gillian -- Listening to your Hormones
• Henci Goer -- Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities
• Henci Goer -- The Thinking Woman's Guide to a Better Birth
• Barbara Harper -- Gentle Birth Choices
• Carla Hartley -- Helping Hands: The Apprentice Workbook
• Mary Abbott Hess & Anne Elise Hunt -- Eating for Two
• Kathy Hickling -- What to Expect from God When You're Expecting
• Kathy Hickling -- Help Me Lord - I'm Having a Baby
• Kathleen Huggins -- The Nursing Mother's Companion
• Kathleen Huggins -- The Nursing Mother's Guide to Weaning
• ICEA/Pennypress -- Better Baby Series (Gestational Diabetes; Fitness for the Childbearing Year; The Labor Support Guide; Siblings, Birth & the Newborn; Obstetric Tests and Technology; Planning Your Baby's Birth; Vaginal Birth After Cesarean; The Circumcision Decision; When Your Baby Boy Is Not Circumcised; The New Parent)
• Sherry Jiminez -- The Pregnant Woman's Comfort Guide
• Carl Jones -- Alternative Birth: The Complete Guide
• Carl Jones -- Childbirth Choices Today
• Barbara Kass-Annese & Hal Danzer -- The Fertility Awareness Handbook
• Drs. Grace & Herbert Ketterman -- The Complete Book of Baby and Child Care For Christian Parents
• Sheila Kippley -- Breastfeeding and Natural Child Spacing
• Sheila Kippley -- The Art of Natural Family Planning
• Sheila Kitzinger -- Your Baby, Your Way
• Sheila Kitzinger -- Homebirth
• Sheila Kitzinger -- Breastfeeding Your Baby
• Sheila Kitzinger -- The Crying Baby
• Sheila Kitzinger -- The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth
• Sheila Kitzinger -- A Year After Childbirth
• Sheila Kitzinger -- Woman's Experience of Sex
• Klaus, Marshall & Phylis and Kennel -- Mothering the Mother
• Klaus, Marchall & Phylis and Kennel -- Bonding: Building the Foundations of Secure Attachment and Independence
• Klaus, Marchall & Phylis and Kennel -- Maternal-Infant Bonding
• Diane Korte and Roberta Scaer -- A Good Birth, A Safe Birth
• La Leche League -- The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding
• La Leche League -- The Breastfeeding Answer Book
• Dr. Frederick Leboyer -- Birth Without Violence
• Adrienne Lieberman -- Easing Labor Pain
• Susan Luddington-Hoe & Susan Galant -- Kangaroo Care: the Best You Can Do for Your Preterm Infant
• Susan McCutcheon-Rosegg -- Natural Childbirth the Bradley Way
• Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn -- How to Raise a Healthy Child in Spite of Your Doctor
• Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn -- Male Practice: How Doctors Manipulate Women
• Dr. Robert S. Mendelsohn -- Confessions of a Medical Heretic
• Neil Miller -- Vaccines: Are They Really Safe and Effective?
• Jessica Mitford -- The American Way of Birth
• Polly Perez -- Special Women
• Polly Perez -- The Nurturing Touch at Birth
• Elizabeth Noble -- Essential Exercises for the Childbearing Years
• Michel Odent -- Birth Reborn
• Claudia Panuthos -- Transformation through Birth
• Claudia Panuthos -- Ended Beginnings
• Gayle Peterson -- Birthing Normally
• Gayle Peterson -- An Easier Childbirth
• Kathryn Rateliff -- Christian Woman and Health Care: Sensible Choices for Her and Her Family
• Kathryn Rateliff -- Immunizations: You Do Have a Choice!
• Renfrew, Fisher & Arms -- Bestfeeding
• Barbara Katz Rothman -- The Encyclopedia of Childbearing
• William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN -- The Birth Book
• William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN -- The Baby Book
• William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN -- The Fussy Baby Book
• William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN -- Becoming a Father
• William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN -- The Pregnancy Book
• William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN -- The New Baby Planner
• William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN -- The Ministry of Parenting Your Baby
• William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN -- Parenting and Child Care
• William Sears, MD & Martha Sears, RN -- ParentProject: Tools for Godly Parenting
• Harriet Schiff -- The Bereaved Parent
• Penny Simkin et. al. -- Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn
• Penny Simkin -- The Birth Partner
• Elizabeth Somer -- Nutrition for a Healthy Pregnancy
• David & Lee Stewart -- The Five Standards for Safe Childbirth
• Stillerman -- Mother Massage: A Handbook for Relieving the Discomfort of Pregnancy
• Miriam Stoppard -- Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth
• B. Sweet -- Mayes Midwifery Textbook,
• B. Swinney -- Eating Expectantly
• Tabers Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary
• Janet Tamaro -- So That's What They're For: Breastfeeding Basics
• Tine Thevenin -- The Family Bed
• Dr. Thomas Verny -- Nurturing the Unborn Child
• Dr. Thomas Verny -- The Secret Life of the Unborn Child
• Marsden Wagner -- Pursuing the Birth Machine: The Search for Appropriate Birth Technology
• Dr. David Wallis -- Parenting by the Book
• Susan Weed -- The WiseWoman Herbal for the Childbearing Year
• Richard & Dorothy Wertz -- Lying-In: a History of Childbirth in America
• Toni Weschler -- Taking Charge of Your Fertility
• Helen Wessel -- The Joy of Natural Childbirth: 5th Ed. of Nat. CB & The Christian Family
• Helen Wessel -- Under the Apple Tree
• Helen Wessel -- Childbirth Without Suffering (Position Paper #2)
• Jan Whitcomb -- Teaching Natural Childbirth
• Meryl Winstein -- Your Fertility Signals
• Catherine Young -- Mother's Favorites (personal stories about birth and babies)

Visual Aids

• Birth Atlas, Sixth Edition flip chart visual
• The Process of Giving Birth, color edition of the Birth Atlas flip chart (Childbirth Graphics)
• Giving Birth Naturally Video
• Gentle Birth Choices video
• Special Delivery video
• Children at Birth video
• Special Women video
• Comfort Measures for Labor video
• Comfort Measures for Childbirth video
• The Baby Video by Sears
• Breastfeeding Techniques That Work, Vol. 1: First Attachment video
• I Am Your Child Video w/Rob Reiner
• Ultrasound: Window to the Womb
• Clinical Implications of Touch in Labor and Infancy
• Amazing Talents of the Newborn

Birth/nursing Story Books

• Debra Frasier -- On the Day You Were Born
• Fran Manushkin -- Baby Come Out!(Very cute drawings)
• Ashley Wolff -- Only the Cat Saw
• Mary Lou Latham -- Brother/Sister Birth *
• Marie-Francine Hébert -- The Stork Didn't Bring Me

Magazines

• Midwifery Today
• International Doula - DONA publication
• Mothering Magazine
• The BirthKit

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