Baby on Board: Becoming a Mother Without Losing Yourself, a Guide for Moms-to-Be. Joelle Jay & Amy Kovarick, $23.50

Filled with practical advice and heartfelt wisdom, as well as anecdotes and hands-on exercises, Baby on Board is an encouraging and inspiring guide that helps you figure out what motherhood means to you personally. This warm and reassuring book helps you discover what will bring you balance and fulfillment as you juggle career, family demands, social expectations, and your own needs and dreams as you give birth to your new life as a mother.

Big, Beautiful & Pregnant. Cornelia Van der Ziel & Jacqueline Tourville, $20.50

Expert advice and information for the plus-size woman on fertility, pregnancy, birth and early postpartum.

Bipolar and Pregnant: How to Manage and Succeed in Planning and Parenting While Living with Manic Depression. Kristin Finn, $17.95

Kristin Finn was diagnosed with manic depression as a teenager. Upon deciding to become pregnant, she and her husband had questions, concerns, and fears. Recognizing that there was no go-to guide that helps women with manic depression navigate pre-natal, pregnancy, and postpartum issues, Finn collaborated with geneticists, obstetricians, psychologists, and psychiatrists to create this ultimate support-group-in-a-book and pregnancy resource.

Birth and Breastfeeding: Rediscovering the Needs of Women During Pregnancy and Childbirth. Michel Odent, $24.99

Humanity, argues Michel Odent, stands at a crossroads in the history of childbirth — and the direction we choose to take will have critical consequences.

At a time when pleas for the 'humanization' of childbirth are fashionable, the author suggests, rather, that we should first accept our 'mammalian' condition and give priority to the woman's need for privacy and to feel secure. The activity of the intellect, the use of language, and many cultural beliefs and rituals — which are all special to humans — are handicaps in the period surrounding birth. Says Odent:

“To give birth to her baby, the mother needs privacy. She needs to feel unobserved. The newborn baby needs the skin of the mother, the smell of the mother, her breast. These are all needs that we hold in common with the other mammals, but which humans have learned to neglect, to ignore or even deny."

Expectant parents, midwives, doulas, childbirth educators, those involved in public health, and all those interested in the future of humanity, will find this a provocative and visionary book.

Body, Soul and Baby. Tracy Gaudet & Paula Spencer, $17.00

In a culture that rarely sees pregnancy as a journey to self-discovery, Body, Soul and Baby offers a fresh perspective on this transformative life experience by showing women how to tune in to the cues offered by their bodies and souls—as well as by the babies growing within them—for a healthier pregnancy, a more fulfilling birth experience, and a deeper bond with their baby. Drawing on the best of both complementary and conventional medicine, Body, Soul and Baby is an innovative guide that is empowering, inspiring, and respectful of the wisdom of the female body and spirit. This unique book also includes advice on physical and emotional health, birthing choices and on alternative approaches to pain relief in labour.

Canada’s Pregnancy Care Book. Mount Sinai Hospital Toronto, Michèle Farrugia, Jacqueline Thomas & Paul Bernstein, $34.95

Written by three leading obstetricians and researchers, this balanced, practical and informative  guide to everything related to pregnancy takes readers from preconception through to the birth of their newborn.

The Complete Book of Pregnancy & Childbirth. 4th Edition. Sheila Kitzinger, $24.95

Out in paperback for the first time, this is a completely revised and updated version of the hugely popular, comprehensive and authoritative classic guide to pregnancy and childbirth. Accompanied by beautiful photographs, this week-by-week, month-by-month resource addresses the issues of greatest concern for expectant parents.

The Complete Organic Pregnancy. Deirdre Dolan & Alexandra Zissu, $18.95

In this exhaustively researched book, the authors (calmly) talk parents-to-be through everything from the safest laundry detergent to which crib mattresses contain toxic flame retardants. You'll find out how to choose the right face cream, plastic water bottles, household cleaners, types of fish, and much more—all with an eye toward keeping you and your baby safe and healthy.

A Deeper Shade of Blue: a Woman's Guide to Recognizing and Treating Depression in Her Childbearing Years. Ruta Nonacs, $26.50

Depression affects women almost twice as often as men and while depression may strike at any time, studies show that women are particularly vulnerable during their childbearing years. Dr. Ruta Nonacs, a senior member of the Center for Women's Mental Health at Massachusetts General Hospital and mother of two children herself, confronts the issues of pregnancy-related depression, including:

• Becoming pregnant while being treated for depression and depression during pregnancy
• Pregnancy loss
• Infertility-related depression and the effects of fertility treatments
• Understanding the effects of maternal depression on spouses and family
• Postpartum depression and anxiety

Dr. Nonacs also looks at many of the complicating factors that occur during the span of a woman’s childbearing years including education, career, marriage, and child rearing and discusses how depression often takes hold during potentially stressful times. Honest and compassionate, A Deeper Shade of Blue gives women who are experiencing a pregnancy-related depression the information and support they need to realize the best possible outcome.

The Disabled Woman's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth. Judith Rogers, $38.95

This comprehensive and useful guide is based on the experiences of ninety women with disabilities who chose to have children. In order to bring an intimate focus and understanding to the issues involved in being pregnant and disabled, author Judith Rodgers conducted in-depth interviews with women with 22 different types of disabilities and with a total of 143 pregnancies. Thoroughly researched and informative, this book is a practical guide both for disabled women planning for pregnancy and the health professionals who work with them.

Do Chocolate Lovers Have Sweeter Babies? The Surprising Science of Pregnancy. Jena Picott, $17.00

Lots of books tell you the basics — "the baby is the size of [insert fruit here]." But pregnant science writer Jena Pincott began to wonder just how a baby might tinker with her body — and vice versa — and chased down answers to the questions she wouldn't ask her doctor, such as:

• Does stress sharpen your baby's mind — or dull it?
• Can you predict your baby's temperament?
• Why are babies born in the darker months of the year more likely to grow up to be novelty-loving risk takers?
• Are bossy, dominant women more likely to have boys?
• How can the cells left behind by your baby affect you years later?

This is a different kind of pregnancy book — thoughtful, fun, and filled with information you won't find anywhere else.

Epilepsy and Pregnancy. Stacey Chillemi & Blanca Vazquez, $22.00

An essential guide to any woman with epilepsy who needs clear, reliable information on pregnancy and related issues.

The Everything® Father-to-Be Book: a Survival Guide for Men, 2nd Edition. Kevin Nelson, $18.50

Advice and tips from dads who’ve been there — this useful guide gives you everything you need to be a perfect partner and super dad.

The Everything® Pregnancy Book, 3rd Edition. Paula Ford-Martin, $18.95

Updated, redesigned, and packed with even more information, this month-by-month resource walks expectant through the different phases of pregnancy and offers trusted information on every important topic from conception to delivery and beyond. The Everything Pregnancy Book promises to answer all of your questions and more!

From the Hips. Rebecca Odes & Ceridwen Morris, $24.50

A comprehensive, open-minded, uncensored, totally honest guide to pregnancy, birth and becoming a parent. From the Hips includes a wide range of voices and approaches and reflects the many ways of being pregnant and parenting without suggesting that there is one right way.

Gestational Diabetes. InJoy Productions, $39.99 DVD, 22 minutes

This program teaches pregnant women who have gestational diabetes how to keep their blood glucose in a safe and healthy range for the remainder of their pregnancy. It explains the condition, the risk factors and covers healthy food choices, physical activity, medications and more.

The Girlfriends’ Guide to Pregnancy, 2nd Edition. Vicki Iovine, $19.99

Four-time delivery room veteran Vicki Iovine talks to you the way only a best friend can. Now, in this newly revised and updated edition, get the lowdown on all those little things that are too strange or embarrassing to ask, practical tips, and hilarious takes on everything pregnant.

A Green Guide to Your Natural Pregnancy and Birth: the Kind Way for You, Your Baby and the Environment. Claire Gillman, $29.95

This beautifully illustrated book contains essential advice on prenatal care and preparation for birth, maintaining a green home and dealing with common pregnancy ailments in a green holistic and healthy manner.

Healthy Beginnings: Giving Your Baby the Best Start, from Preconception to Birth. Nan Schuurmans, the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists of Canada, $16.95

Healthy Beginnings is a uniquely Canadian handbook that guides the reader through pregnancy, from preconception to birth. An all-inclusive resource, this handy guide will be especially useful for its Canadian resources.

Heart & Hands: a Midwife's Guide to Pregnancy and Birth, 5th Edition. Elizabeth Davis, $41.00

Presenting information on what to expect during each stage of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum recovery, this completely revised edition includes new photographs and illustrations, updated resources, information on homebirth, water birth, and more. The book reflects the latest research on the physiology of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum, and combines time-honored teachings with the most current obstetric techniques. This essential reference empowers birthing helpers and parents to create a truly woman-centered birth experience.

Homeopathy for Pregnancy & Childbirth. Rosemary Tayler, $21.99

Homeopathy for Pregnancy & Childbirth provides safe, gentle and effective homeopathic guidance to help make the perinatal period easier for mother and baby. Written for mothers and their health care professionals, the book begins with an explanation of homeopathy then moves on to look at the challenges of pregnancy, birth and the early postpartum for mother and infant.

The ICEA Guide to Pregnancy & Birth. ICEA, $11.50

Essential information to help you make informed decisions for a healthy pregnancy, labor and birth.

I’m Pregnant! A Week-by-Week Guide. Lesley Regan, $30.00

This informative guide offers current, practical information on what to expect at each stage of your pregnancy; including the physical and the emotional changes and challenges. This edition has been fully adapted to include up to date Canadian guidelines and practices.

In the Womb. Peter Tallack, $33.00

Based on National Geographic’s acclaimed television presentation, In the Womb offers a stunning look into the world of the developing human. In the Womb was created by a team of obstetric and imaging technology experts using 3-D ultrasound and the remarkably beautiful and award-winning models of David Barlow. Compelling and extraordinary, it captures both the science and the magic of reproduction.

Life’s Greatest Miracle DVD. PBS Home Video, narrated by John Lithgow, photography by Lennart Nilsson, $26.95 DVD format, 60 minutes

It takes countless milestones to turn an undifferentiated clump of cells into a baby and normally it’s a process that happens in the dark. Lennart Nilsson brings it beautifully to light, taking us into the mysterious and beautiful world of conception, through to birth.

Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy. $19.95

A trusted resource for parents-to-be, the Mayo Clinic Guide to a Healthy Pregnancy covers every aspect of pregnancy — from fertility/infertility concerns through birth. This comprehensive resource includes guidance on eating well; updates on baby’s development and mom’s physical and emotional changes; as well as practical tips of working; travelling; and planning for parenthood.

The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy. Kimberley Sears-Allers, $17.50

The Mocha Manual to a Fabulous Pregnancy is a straight-talking handbook about pregnancy. Kimberly Seals-Allers offers candid advice on specific health concerns affecting black women such as high blood pressure, sickle cell disease, diabetes, and low birth weight, as well as information about how to get your finances in order, how to cope with pigmentation and hair texture changes, single-parenting, maternity fashion, how to deal with demanding jobs and hormone-induced meltdowns.

My Pregnancy. Canadian Edition, $30.00

An information-packed, highly accessible guide written by a team of experts in nutrition, prenatal, birth and baby care. MY PREGNANCY covers everything you need from preconception through the first six after your baby's birth.

My Pregnancy and Breastfeeding Calendar. Janet Rourke, $12.50

My Pregnancy Journal. $25.95

A beautiful keepsake book for recording a mother’s thoughts, experiences and plans during pregnancy.

Thoroughly revised and updated, The New Essential Guide to Lesbian Conception, Pregnancy, and Birth is a complete resource for women embarking on this life-changing journey. In addition to helping you create a plan and timeline for conception, author Stephanie Brill covers the most up-to-date developments in conception and pregnancy.

Sharing tried-and-true advice and the experiences of other parents, Brill walks you through conception to early babyhood. Warm and accessible, this indispensable handbook will help you build the family you’ve always wanted.

Oh, Baby! Pregnancy Tales and Advice from One Hot Mama to Another. Tia Mowry, $27.50

From the bloating to the belching to the Baby Story marathons that might just drive you crazy, prime-time star and new mom Tia Mowry delivers the lowdown in a frank, hilarious guide to modern pregnancy. Tia leaves no topic off-limits while helping expectant moms stay empowered, pampered, and laughing out loud. From sex during the third trimester to pimped-out strollers, OH, BABY! reveals what to really expect on that nine-month road to the delivery room. 

100 Questions & Answers about Your High-Risk Pregnancy. Elizabeth Platt, Betty Campbell, Andrea Tetreau, & Michael Pinette, $23.95

100 Questions and Answers about Your High-Risk Pregnancy provides authoritative, practical answers to the most common questions posed by at-risk expecting parents. The text covers topics such as testing, mother's health, fetal health, complications, prevention and treatment, and physical and psychological coping. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of high-risk pregnancy.

Origins: How the Nine Months Before Birth Shape the Rest of Our Lives. Annie Murphy Paul, $17.00

What makes us the way we are? Some say it's the genes we inherit at conception. Others are sure it's the environment we experience in childhood. But could it be that many of our individual characteristics — our health, our intelligence, our temperaments — are influenced by the conditions we encountered before birth?

That's the claim of an exciting and provocative field known as fetal origins. Over the past twenty years, scientists have been developing a radically new understanding of our very earliest experiences and how they exert lasting effects on us from infancy well into adulthood. Their research offers a bold new view of pregnancy as a crucial staging ground for our health, ability, and well-being throughout life.

Pregnancy & Birth: the Essential Checklists. Karen Sullivan, $15.95

More than 100 checklists to help you anticipate everything you need to do in pregnancy, during the birth and with your newborn. Pregnancy & Birth: the Essential Checklists tells you what to prepare, what to buy, what to ask, what to do and when to do it.

Pregnancy & Birth: Everything You Need to Know. Mary Steen, $16.95

A quick and comprehensive guide to caring for yourself and your growing baby.  This practical, clearly illustrated and extensive book covers the core information you need from conception through labour and birth to the first six weeks of your newborn’s life.

Pregnancy and Birth: a Guide to Making Decisions That Are Right for You and Your Baby, 2nd Edition. Teresa Pitman & Joyce Barrett, $27.95

This fully revised edition provides reliable and current evidence-based information on pregnancy, prenatal care and prenatal tests, birth and the early postpartum.

Pregnancy and Birth: Your Questions Answered. Christopher Lees & Grainne McCartan, $21.95

Practical advice on every aspect of pregnancy, from conception through labour to the first weeks of your newborn's life.

Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn: the Complete Guide, 4th Edition. Penny Simkin, Janet Whalley, Ann Keppler, Janelle Durham & April Bolding, $18.50

This highly accessible and authoritative new edition of Pregnancy, Childbirth and the Newborn presents research-based information on all aspects of childbearing – from conception through early infancy. Well organized, it includes engaging photos, illustrations and boxed features that highlight important information and advice to help you make informed decisions about your care. With appendices that include footnotes and research references as well as a glossary and summaries of pain relief methods for labour, this is tremendously complete resource for expectant and new parents.

Pregnancy Planner:  Essential Advice for Moms-to-Be. Ziba Kashef, $24.95

A practical resource and keepsake journal all-in-one!

The Pregnancy Test: 150 Important, Embarrassing and Slightly Neurotic Questions. Melissa Heckscher, $16.95

Serious questions from moms-to-be, including:

• Can I ride a rollercoaster in my first trimester?
• Is it safe to pump my own gas?
• Why is hair growing around my belly button?
• Is it dangerous to get a bikini wax while pregnant?
• Is scuba diving safe?
• Why am I snoring more now that I’m pregnant????

And answers that reassure and make sense!

The Pregnant Body Book: the Complete Illustrated Guide from Conception to Birth. Sarah Brewer, Shaoni Bhattacharya, Justine Davies, Sheena Meredith & Penny Preston, $45.00

Once you get past the cover illustration — which for some reason shows a full-term baby in the breech position — this beautifully illustrated book takes the reader on a stunning visual journey of pregnancy and childbirth. Includes a DVD-ROM with interactive graphics and animations.

Prenatal Tests: the Facts. Lachlan de Crespigny & Frank Chervenak, $22.95

In order to make informed decisions about the sometimes bewildering array of tests offered during pregnancy, parents need clear and relevant information about the purpose, the timing and the risks, as well as details of how the test will actually be performed. Prenatal Tests: the Facts is arranged by stage of pregnancy, giving parents-to-be the information they need in order to make informed decisions for themselves and their baby.

Raising Baby Green: the Earth-Friendly Guide to Pregnancy, Childbirth and Baby Care. Alan Greene, et al, $19.99

In this illustrated and easy-to-use guide, noted pediatrician Dr. Alan Greene, a leading voice of the green baby movement, advises parents how to make healthy green choices for pregnancy, childbirth, and baby care—from feeding your baby the best food available to using medicines wisely. Consumer advocate Jeanette Pavini includes information for making smart choices and applying green principles to a whole new universe of products from zero-VOC paints for the nursery, to pure and gentle lotions for baby’s delicate skin, to the eco-friendly diapers now in the marketplace, as well as specific recommendations for hundreds of other products.

Sacred Pregnancy: a Loving Guide and Journal for Expectant Moms. Anni Daulter, $23.95

SACRED PREGNANCY was written to help the pregnant woman journey within herself to prepare for the birth of her baby. With beautiful photos throughout, SACRED PREGNANCY also features a journal space for the pregnant woman to record her thoughts and feelings. Mothers-to-be are invited to look deeply at the issues unique to their journey and find a centered, peaceful place to live their pregnancy fully. Lastly, the book includes space for the new mother to record her birth story and a large resource section on various birthing options and supports for pregnant women.

From surging hormones to crying babes, sleep disturbances go hand in hand with motherhood. Sleep Deprived No More gives readers tips on solving sleep problems throughout pregnancy and for the first six months after the baby arrives.

Trusted Advice: Your Healthy Pregnancy. Miriam Stoppard, $10.95

A quick and easy, practical guide to maintaining your health and fitness throughout pregnancy.

Understanding Your Moods When You're Expecting: Emotions, Mental Health, and Happiness Before, During, and After Pregnancy. Lucy Puryear, $16.95

Lucy Puryear is a practicing psychiatrist and a pioneering expert in women's reproductive mental health. Through engaging personal stories reflecting her own practice, she illuminates the little-discussed feelings that are virtually universal for pregnant women and explains exactly what is happening to your hormonal system. Understanding Your Moods When You're Expecting gives readers the knowledge they need during this emotionally demanding time in their lives.

YOU Having a Baby: the Owner’s Manual to a Happy and Healthy Pregnancy. Michael Roizen & Mehmet Oz, $16.99

Filled with recipes for nutritious, satisfying snacks and meals, safe exercises for staying fit, and tons of tips that will help you stay comfortable, YOU Having a Baby is the ultimate guidebook for what to do from the moment of conception to the weeks after your child has arrived home. From morning sickness and food cravings to choosing a caregiver and changing a diaper, YOU Having a Baby will give you the real scoop about what's in store for you during this amazing time in your life.