Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler

This is a beautifully written guide to the fertility signs of a woman, and how she can control them. It delves into great detail on the Fertility Awareness Method for the couple wishing to conceive or for the couple wanting to wait. However, it instructs those wishing to wait on natural methods without chemical contraceptives or complicated birth control systems and cycles. The book features thorough, easy-to-understand explanations of hormones, the menstrual cycle, menopause and fertility tests and treatments with their long and short-term effects. This book is terrific for the woman wishing to know more about herself, and especially for the couple struggling with infertility.

Strong Women Stay Young by Miriam Nelson

If you are able to commit to two 40-minute work-out sessions a week, then you are well en route to maintaining your strength and youthfulness, guaranteed! The program is a well-designed, progressive strength-training plan that promises denser bones, better balance and flexibility, and more strength and energy especially for those women between the ages of 40-80. This is a terrific book for the woman looking to lose a few pounds in a healthy way, and to delay the effects of aging and especially for preventing osteoporosis.

Pain Free at Your PCC by Pete Egoscue

No longer do you need to spend enormous amounts of money for little or no results. All you have to do is to listen to the wise words of Mr. Egoscue. Carpal Tunnel surgery, ergonomic chairs and pain-killers are poor choices according to Egoscue, but the realignment of the body and the strengthening of certain muscles can fix the ever bothersome stiff necks, headaches and carpal tunnel syndrome all attributed to the computer. This is a terrific book with great sketches of stretches and strengthening exercises. This is great for the person willing to take some easy action to get rid of a persistent and painful problem.

Childwise by Gary Ezzo and Dr. Robert Bucknam

Want to raise an angel? Childwise offers prospective parents, new parents and old parents insight on raising a righteous child through sound biblical instruction for the parents themselves with questions of discipline, parental roles and other issues. The best thing about this book however, is that both the authors relay their own personal experiences on to the reader, so you’re not getting the fact sheet, but the personalized, emotionally charged piece of work much better equipped to show results.

Parenting with Love and Logic by Foster Cline and Jim Fay

“Practice makes perfect.” Parenting with Love and Logic exemplifies this saying by teaching that great parenting is achieved through practice. Cline and Fay’s philosophy of parenting called “love and logic” outlines the process of raising responsible children through practice. This book is great for the parent looking to forge a mutually respectful, open, and loving relationship with their child. The book teaches parents how to teach their kids logic and responsibility by living their lives in the same way: logically and responsibly. This is an extremely upbeat and sensible approach to child rearing.

What to Expect When you are Expecting by Arlene Eisenberg, Heidi Murkoff and Sandee Hathaway

The third edition of the extremely popular pregnancy guide offers the authoritative yet reassuring advice that parents around the world have come to rely on. The book is arranged by month and what to expect in each stage, all the way from conception to the pregnancy test to labor and delivery. The book also answers the frequently-asked questions in each stage and includes stage-appropriate “What you may be feeling” and “What you may be concerned about” features. The book will likely answer all of your questions and some you hadn’t even thought of. This is the perfect book for the expecting, or hoping to expect soon, parents. We give this out to all our new OB patients when they come in for maternity care.