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There’s a world full of helpful information and useful items out there but it’s hard to know what’s truly great.

Here you’ll find some of our favorite book, product, and podcast recommendations to get you started to achieve mind-body wellness while navigating parenting.

(Disclosure: Some links below are affiliate links. At zero cost to you, Perinatal Place may earn a small commission if you purchase by clicking through our links. Thank you for your support!)

Books & Media
Products
Podcasts

BOOKS & MEDIA

Family Planning

Fertility & Trying to Conceive

  • Taking Charge of Your Fertility, 20th Anniversary Edition: The Definitive Guide to Natural Birth Control, Pregnancy Achievement, and Reproductive Health by Toni Weschler

Parenting Resources

Baby 101

  • Brian Health From Birth: Nurturing Brain Development During Pregnancy and the First Year by Rebecca Fett
  • The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer by Harvey Karp (Also: DVD version)
  • The Baby Book: Everything You Need to Know About Your Baby from Birth to Age Two by William, Martha, Robert, and James Sears

Sleep

  • Precious Little Sleep: The Complete Baby Sleep Guide for Modern Parents by Alexis Dubief
  • The Happiest Baby on the Block: The New Way to Calm Crying and Help Your Newborn Baby Sleep Longer by Harvey Karp (Also: DVD version)

Raising Kids

  • How to Talk So LITTLE Kids Will Listen: A Survival Guide to Life with Children Ages 2-7 by Joanna Faber & Julie King (TODDLERS)
  • How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen so Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish (ELEMENTARY KIDS)
  • The Danish Way of Parenting: What the Happiest People in the World Know about Raising Confident, Capable Kids by Jessica Joelle Alexander & Iben Sandahl
  • Bringing up Bebe: One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman
  • Raising Good Humans: A Mindful Guide to Breaking the Cycle of Reactive Parenting and Raising Kind, Confident Kids by Hunter Clark-Fields
  • The Power of Showing Up: How Parental Presence Shapes Who Our Kids Become and How Their Brains Get Wired by Daniel J. Siegel & Tina Payne Bryson

Perinatal Mental Health

Perinatal Mood & Anxiety Disorders

  • Dark Side of the Full Moon [documentary]
  • Beyond the Blues: Understanding & Treating Prenatal & Postpartum Depression & Anxiety by Shoshana S. Bennett PhD and Pec Indman PA,EdD
  • A Promise: A Vow of Love for Baby and a Message of Hope for Mom by Annie Rohr

Perinatal Anxiety

  • The Pregnancy Workbook: Manage Anxiety and Worry with CBT and Mindfulness Techniques by Dr. Katayune Kaeni
  • Good Moms Have Scary Thoughts: A Healing Guide to the Secret Fears of New Mothers by Karen Kleiman
  • First, We Make the Beast Beautiful: A New Journey Through Anxiety by Sarah Willson (not perinatal specific)

Perinatal Depression

  • Down Came the Rain: My Journey Through Postpartum Depression by Brooke Shields

Trauma

  • The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel A. van der Kolk

Relationships

Healthy Relationships

  • Fair Play: A Game-Changing Solution for When You Have Too Much to Do (and More Life to Live) by Eve Rodsky (Book) & The Fair Play Card Deck
  • Drop the Ball: Achieving More by Doing Less by Tiffany Dufu.

Resources for New Parents

  • What About Us? A New Parents Guide to SafeGuard Your Over-Anxious, Over-Extended, Sleep-Deprived Relationship by Karen Kleiman

Support for Partners

  • The Postpartum Husband: Practical Solutions for living with Postpartum Depression by Karen R. Kleiman

Physical Heath & Wellbeing

Postpartum

  • The Fourth Trimester: A Postpartum Guide to Healing Your Body, Balancing your Emotions, and Restoring Your Vitality by Kimberly Ann Johnson

Pregnancy

  • Changing Birth On Earth- The Midwife and Nurse’s Guide to Using Physiology to Avoid Another Unnecessary Cesarean by Gail Tully

Sexual Health

  • Come As You Are- The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski, Ph.D.
  • You Are Not Broken: Should “Should-ing” All Over Your Sex Life by KJ Casperson, MD.

PRODUCTS

Better Eating

Meal Planning

  • Plan to Eat (We love this app for managing recipes, meal planning, and generating grocery lists!)

Better Sleep

For You

  • TouchPoints
  • Blue Light Glasses
  • Best Noise Reducing Earplugs

For Baby

  • Swaddle Me Swaddles
  • Halo Sleep Sacks
  • Lavender Lotion
  • Black Out Curtain
  • White Noise Machine

Mental Wellness

Affirmation Cards

  • Pregnancy & Birthing / Postpartum Affirmation Cards (use code PerinatalPlace for 10% off)

Anxiety Reduction

TouchPoints

Nursing

Clothing

  • Nursing Tanks

Comfort

  • My Breast Friend nursing pillow

Nipple Cream

  • Medela Lanolin

Physical Wellness

Body Wellness

  • Still Point Inducer
  • Squatty Potty

Birth Prep

  • Birthing Ball
  • Peanut Ball

Pelvic Pain

  • Intimate Rose Dilators  (use code KATIE23 for $5 off)
  • Intimate Rose Pelvic Wand  (use code KATIE23 for $5 off)

Pregnancy

  • Pregnancy Support Band
  • V-strap Pregnancy Support Belt

Postpartum Healing

  • Compression Underwear – Upspring
  • Compression Underwear – Baobeibody
  • Perineal Spray Bottle
  • Perineal Cooling Spray

PODCASTS

We truly believe that information, connection, and shared experiences promote healing and overall well-being. Below are some of the podcasts we’ve found to be useful in providing information and stories that can help women feel less alone and more supported in their journeys. We love connecting & chatting with the amazing podcast hosts who make these episodes possible and have also listed the shows we’ve guested on below. Whether you’re listening while feeding baby, doing the dishes, or driving to daycare, we hope you’ll find some inspiration, humor, and/or tips that help make your mom-journey feel less lonely!

Podcasts

Mental Wellness

  • Mom in Mind
  • Hello Postpartum

Physical Wellness

  • Kaely’s Daily- Doula Tips and Tits
  • To Birth & Beyond

Parenting

  • Finding Your Village

Our Guest Episodes

Katie's Episodes

  • Pelvic PT Rising: Preventative Care for Patients and in Business
  • Kaely’s Daily: Do I need to do Kegels in pregnancy?

Megan's Episodes

  • The Trauma Therapist: Perinatal Anxiety & Trauma
  • Grief is My Side Hustle: Perinatal Mental Health, Grief and New Motherhood
  • Hello Postpartum: Understanding Grief After Miscarriage or Pregnancy Loss
  • Things You Learn in Therapy: All Things Prenatal & Early Years of Parenting
  • Finding Your Village: What are Intrusive Thoughts
  • Kids These Days: What to Say (and NOT say) During the Perinatal Period
  • Finding Your Village: What is Postpartum Psychosis
  • Birth Journeys Podcast – My Birth Story (Stories!)
  • The Pure Nurture Podcast – Setting Boundaries During Birth, Postpartum, & Mothering

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