“With the help of this book, any intelligent person can obtain the information necessary to make informed choices. This unique book will provide the tools and confidence to have the best possible birth experience.”
Don Creevy, M.D., FACOG obstetrician-gynecologist Clinical Assistant Professor, Stanford University Medical School

2.
Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities: A Guide to the Medical Literature

“…an extremely useful resource for everyone who works in the field of maternity care, for policy makers, and for childbearing women and couples. Scientific documentation for many obstetric practices is at their fingertips in this readable guide. Childbirth educators and practitioners will find it both an educational tool for themselves and a motivation to give improved care to women in pregnancy and birth. Policy makers can use it to make their case for implementing changes in practice. Armed with the information it provides, pregnant women can ask knowledgeable questions, make informed decisions, and experience less intervention in their births. You can be sure that this thoroughly researched ‘Guide to the Medical Literature’ in obstetrics will be a frequently used reference.”–Birth

“[T]his would serve as a scientific obstetric ‘Bible’ to keep at hand, to dip into when help is needed on a particular subject. It will provide chapter and verse to support midwifery solutions to obstetric problems, it will comfort in times of despair, and it will keep one’s heart and soul in the right place.”–Midwifery Matters

both by Henci Goer

3.
Emergency Childbirth
by Gregory White

From what I’ve heard, this is a must-have book. I think having & reading it will settle some of my fears of living out in the middle of nowhere!

4.
Childbirth Without Fear
by Grantly Dick-Read

“Before we embark upon this rather hazardous voyage - the description of a new approach to obstetrics - it may be well to outline briefly certain facts relating to childbirth during the later stages of civilization.”