Recommended OB/GYN/NEWBORN Nursing READING LIST!

Jennifer Block's book IS great- I just finished it a little while ago. Another one I would recommend that is in the same vein is "Born in the USA" by Marsden Wagner MD. He is a perinatologist (OB & neonatology) turned perinatal epidemiologist who basically considers himself as a whistle blower for American maternity care.

Another really interesting one I read a while ago was "Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born" by Tina Cassidy.

"The Labor Progress Handbook" by Simkin & Ancheta is a must have for L&D nurses!
And for really learning L&D - "Intrapartum Management Modules" by Kennedy, Ruth, & Martin

For learning newborns, "Physical Assessment of the Newborn: A Comprehensive Approach to the Art of Physical Examination" by Tappero & Honeyfield.

I'm also a fan of "Wise Woman Herbal for the Childbearing Year" by Susan Weed. We have a lot of patients that come in taking herbs and tinctures of all sorts and this has been a good reference.

Hello & thanks for this wonderful reading list. I can't wait to get to them.

I'm a pre-nursing student (hopeful eventual L&D RN). I purchased Taking Charge of Your Fertility by Toni Weschler and it seems to be a really good read along the lines of the holistic approach to family planning. This is going around in my circle of married friends who hate the Pill, shot, IUD, etc & it's very informative.

Also, I know this is a reading forum, but once I started getting really interested in nursing I netflixed The Business of Being Born. It's a Ricki Lake documentary about interventions in modern day L&D and was also very good (IMO). I don't know how all the L&D nurses feel about these more natural approaches, but I'd be very curious to read some feedback.

These may be somewhere in the 101 responses to the OP, so I apologize if they are!

I have to ask....what is a "Sticky Thread?"

Ina May Gaskin has some videos on Youtube, which I found very enlightening.

Also, "house of babies" shari daniels has some great videos showing some basics to childbirth for new grad L&D nurses.

im looking for a jounals of annotated reading about this ob-gyne and newborn care. pls post a link on where could i get some

AWHONN's Perinatal Nursing 3rd edition is a great resource for the unit, and it is also a wonderful, wonderful book to study for the RNC exam.

I also like the Susan Martin Tucker handbood of fetal monitoring - this was my little Bible when I first started Labor and Delivery.