Here are some books that have been helpful for me. I’ve asterisked the ones I referenced the most.

Fertility:

Cirulli Lanham, Carol. Pregnancy After A Loss: A Guide to Pregnancy after a Miscarriage, Stillbirth, or Infant Death

Ni, Daoshing and Dana Herko. The Tao of Fertility

 

Parenting Younger Children:

Allgood, Susan. Primal Feast

* Ames, Louise Bates. (series from Your One Year Old to Your Ten-to-Fourteen Year Old)

* Baldwin Dancy, Rahima. You are Your Child’s First Teacher

* Bengson, Diane. How Weaning Happens 

* Bumgarner, Norma Jane. Mothering Your Nursing Toddler

Chapman, Gary. Five Love Languages of Children

* Davis, Laura and Janis Keyser. Becoming the Parent You Want to Be

* Elium, J & D. Raising A Daughter: Parents and the Making of a Healthy Woman

* Faber, Adele and Elaine Mazlish. How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk

Gottman, John. The Heart of Parenting

Hallowell, Edward. Childhood Roots of Adult Happiness

Hamkins, SuEllen and Renee Schultz. The Mother-Daughter Project

Harwood, A. C. Way of a Child

Hawkins, David. “Messing about in Science” 2/1965 issue of Science and Children (from Holt’s How Children Learn)

Holt, John. How Children Learn

Housden, Maria. Hannah’s Gift, Lessons from a Life Fully Lived

Kohn, Alfie. Punished by Rewards

Lerner, Harriet. The Motherhood Dance

* Liedloff, Jean. The Continuum Concept

Miller, Alice. For Your Own Good

Mogel, Wendy. Blessing of a Skinned Knee

Sears, William. The Baby Book

Seligman, Martin. The Optimistic Child

* Small, Meredith. Our Babies, Our Selves

Thompson, Michael G. and Edward M. Hallowell. Finding the Heart of the Child

West, Melissa Gayle. If Only I were a Better Mother

 

Parenting Teens:

Ames, Louise Bates. Your Ten to Fourteen Year Old

Ames, Louise Bates. Adolescent Rorschach Responses: Developmental Trends from Ten to Sixteen Years

Damour, Lisa. Untangled

Jensen, Frances. The Teenage Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Survival Guide to Raising Adolescents and Young Adults

Siegel, Daniel. Brainstorm

 

Psychology/Spirituality/Other:

Bowman, Carol. Children’s Past Lives

Foxman, Paul. Dancing with Fear

Hanh, Thich Nhat. Being Peace

Hanh, Thich Nhat. Peace is Every Step, Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life

Harding, Esther. Women’s Mysteries Ancient and Modern

Housden, Roger. 10 Poems to Change Your Life

Johnson, Robert A. Owning Your Own Shadow

Lao-Tsu (Stephen Mitchell translation). Tao te Ching

Schroder, Tom. Old Souls

Silverman, Lloyd H, Frank M. Lachmann, and Robert H. Milich. A Search for Oneness

Sjoo, Monica and Barbara Mor. The Great Cosmic Mother

 

BOOKS – Writing:

Goldberg, Natalie. Writing the Bones

Heilbrun, Carolyn. Writing a Woman’s Life

Rosenberg, Judith Pierce, ed. A Question of Balance: Artists and Writers on Motherhood

Ueland, Brenda. If You Want To Write