• Birthing from Within
  by Pam England

• Pregnant Fathers- Becoming the Father You Want to Be by Jack Heinowitz PhD

• The Garden of Fertility by Katie Singer

• Psoas Book by Liz Koah

• The Complete Book of Pregnancy and Childbirth by Sheila Kitzinger

• Any book
  by Sheila Kiizinger

• Any Book
  by Christine Northrop

• Any Book
  by Pauline Perez

• Any Book
  by Penny Simpkin

• Sex for One
  by Betty Dodson

• Everyday Blessings, The Inner Work of Mindful Parenting
  by Jon and Mya Kabet-Zinn

• A Woman's Book of Herbs
  by Deb Soule

• Active Birth
  by Penny Simpkin

• The Schwarzben Principle
  by Diana Schwarzbein

• The Schwarzbein Principle Cookbook

• Mama Gena's School of Womanly Arts
  by Regena Thomahaur

• www.drnorthrup.com 
  Dr. Christiane Northrup’s site. We particularly like the fact that her newsletters are archived here, offering timely information on a variety of women’s health topics. Also, the Body Wisdom link is a nice reference for starting to identify your mind-body-spirit connection to particular health conditions.

• www.babycenter.com
  Pregnancy, Baby, and Toddler Information, Baby Gifts, and Parenting Community - BabyCenter

• www.awhonn.org 
  Site for the association of women’s health and ob-gyn nurses. Women’s health advocacy, and political/legislative action information for women health professionals are offered. Their “Healthlinks” to other sites on the Web is convenient.

• www.nwhn.org 
  Site of the national women’s health network, a nonprofit women’s health advocacy organization that has no advertising and accepts no funds from tobacco, pharmaceutical, or medical device manufacturers. Their information packets are inexpensive and comprehensive.

• www.healthywomen.org 
  Site for national women’s health research center. Solid information for laypeople and professionals. Pharmaceutical support, but you can hardly tell.

• www.ourbodiesourselves.org 
  Site of the original Women’s Boston Health Collective, perhaps the first women’s health advocacy organization in the United States. Currently working on international health issues for women, they still publish that classic self care book “Our Bodies Ourselves” in several languages – and much bigger than the first edition!

• www.melpomene.org 
  Site of the Melpomene Institute. Melpomene is a nonprofit organization whose activities focus on supporting women’s issues around physical activity. They sponsor research about women and exercise and offer resources for things like healthy playgrounds and support cultivation of physical culture for women of all ages.

• www.jiwh.org 
  Site of Jacob’s Institute for Women’s Health. A nonprofit which publishes an excellent women’s health journal and sponsors interesting research projects around women’s health issues. Publishes especially valuable state by state data books on women’s health indicators, and a statistical review summary on women’s health issues overall.

• www.healthy.net 
  Site for healthy world online; check out the “healthy woman center”. Tends to have lots of advertisements but the article content is pretty reliable and entertaining reading. A good place to start to research something your friend told you. You can link to Medline from this site.

• www.fitday.com 
  Website designed to help you track and analyze the important aspects of your diet and fitness. Based on your journal entries, Fitday analyzes your diet, exercise regime and weight.

• www.medicalview.com/nutrition/obesity1/section6.html 
  Dr. David Heber, of the UCLA Medical Center, and one of the leaders in nutrition science, developed the California Cuisine Pyramid. This new pyramid depicts improved food choices for those who are overweight.

• www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/index.html 
  USDA nutrient database.

• www.deliciousdecisions.org 
  Heart health recipes.

• www.niddk.nih.gov/health/nutrit/nutrit.htm 
  Information on diet and obesity.
  www.nat.uiuc.edu 
  Nutrient analysis tool offered by the University of Illinois Nutrition department.

• www.foodnews.org/index.php 
  This is the Environmental Working Group's (EWG's) site. The EWG is a nonprofit advocacy organization with a database of more than 160,000 government lab tests used to evaluate pesticides present in the fruits and vegetables we eat. This site enables users to quickly assess the possible pesticide-related risks of different fruits and vegetables, or combinations thereof.

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