Our branch has an extensive library of pregnancy and parenting books which has recently been updated with several new additions.   The books are available to all members to borrow, free of charge.  All the titles are listed here.  Please do make use of these books!

Subjects covered:

Pregnancy and Birth         Breastfeeding         Parenting – the First Year 

Parenting – Toddlers and Beyond         Weaning and Feeding         Sleeping       

Fatherhood        Potty Training        Multiple Birth        Health        Miscarriage and Loss

If you would like to borrow any of the books below, please email library@nct-hertsnorth.org.uk

Pregnancy and Birth

Babies Names Collins reference book, 2001

Expecting – everything you need to know about pregnancy, labour and birth – McGrail & Metland, 2004

101 Essential Tips for Healthy Pregnancy – Dorling Kindersley, 2001

New Generations - 40 Years of Birth In Britain – Joanna Moorhead, 1996

The Birth of a Mother – Daniel Stern, 1998

The pregnancy Q&A book – Dorling Kindersley, 2002

Birth over 35 – Sheila Kitzinger, 1994

Book of Antenatal Tests – NCT, 1998

Pregnancy and childbirth a guide for deaf women – NCT & RNID, 2004

Guide to labour – NCT booklet, 2005 (2 copies)

Straightforward Birth – NCT Information Sheet

Am I allowed? – AIMS booklet, Lawrence Beech, 2003

What’s right for me? – AIMS booklet, Sara Wickham, 2002

Induction – do I really need it? – AIMS booklet, Sara Wickham, 2004

Vaginal Birth After Caesarean – AIMS booklet, Jenny Lesley, 2004

Vaginal Birth After Caesarean – NCT Information Sheet

Caesarean Birth - Your Questions Answered – Chippington-Derek, Lowden & Barlow, 2004

The Caesarean Experience – Clement, 1995

Homebirth – Nicky Wesson, 2006

Homebirth – NCT booklet, 2002

Birth Your Way, Choosing birth at home or in a Birth Centre – Sheila Kitzinger, 2002

Choosing a waterbirth – AIMS booklet Lawrence Beech, 1998

Labour and Birth in Water – NCT booklet, 2002

Using water in labour and birth – NCT Information Sheet

Breech Birth – AIMS booklet, Jane Evans, 2005

Happy Birth Day – NCT DVD, 2007 (5 copies)

Chicken pox – NCT Information Sheet

Low-lying placenta – NCT Information Sheet

 

Breastfeeding

NCT Breastfeeding for beginners – Caroline Deacon, 2002 (2 copies)

Breastfeeding Tips – NCT DVD

Breastfeeding – how long? - NCT Information Sheet

Fathers and Breastfeeding – NCT Information Sheet

Breastfeeding and your nipples – NCT Information Sheet

Bottlefeeding for breastfed babies - NCT Information Sheet

Breastfeeding, the first seven days – NCT leaflet

Breastfeeding: returning to work – NCT leaflet

 

Parenting – the First Year

Your Baby’s First Year – NCT, Beasley, 2005

Practical Parenting - How to Soothe a Crying Baby – Eileen Hayes 2001

Everything Your Baby Would Ask... If Only He or She Could Talk – Karmiloff & Karmiloff-Smith, 1999

Your Baby & Child – Penelope Leach, 1997

Baby Shock – Elizabeth Martyn, 2001 (Relate)

Baby book – helping you to look after your child. National Family & Parenting Institute booklet, 2004

Mother and Baby experiences of nurturing – Colson 2001 (booklet)

The New Contented Little Baby Book – Gina Ford, 2002

Babycalming – Deacon, 2004

The NCT Book of Postnatal Depression – Welford, 2002

NCT Working parents companion – Wilson, 1998

Parentalk guide to the first 6 weeks – Steve Chalke, 2001

 

Parenting – Toddlers and Beyond

Party Games – Practical Parenting, 2003

Three Shoes, One Sock & No Hairbrush – Rebecca Abrams

The Secret of Happy Children – Steve Biddulph

The Parentalk Guide to the Toddler Years – Steve Chalke, 1999

Siblings Without Rivalry – Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish, 1998

The Wonder of Girls – Michael Gurian, 2002

NCT - Toddler Tantrums – Penny Hames, 2002

Familiar Things - Birth to Three – Sally Thomas, 2002

Birth to 3 matters – SureStart pack

Toddler Taming – Green, 2001

Parents guide to the Montessori classroom – 1995

Confident Children – Lindenfield 2000

Child of our Time – Livingstone/Winston 2005

Positive Parenting – Raising Children with self-esteem – Hartley-Brewer 1994

Raising Happy Children – Parker/Stimpson 1999

 

Weaning and Feeding

The Food Our Children Eat – Joanna Blythman, 1999

New Complete Baby & Toddler Meal Planner – Annabel Karmel, 2001

First Foods and Weaning – NCT, 2002

Organix Baby & Toddler Cookbook – Lizzie Vann, 2000

When do I introduce solids to my baby? – NCT Information Sheet

 

Sleeping

Three in a Bed – Deborah Jackson, 2003

Practical Parenting - How to Get a Whole Night's Sleep – Prisca Middlemiss 1999

Parentalk Guide to sleep – Daymond, 2001

 

Fatherhood

The Father’s Book – David Cohen, 2001

Fathers-to-be Handbook – Patrick Houser

 

Potty Training

NCT Book of Potty Training – Heather Welford, 2002

Huggies potty training – 2003

 

Multiple Birth

Expecting more than one – TAMBA booklet, 2002

 

Health

Give us a Little Time – How babies with a cleft lip or cleft palate can be breastfed, 1996

Postnatal Yoga – Freedman & Hall, 2000

Your Pelvic Floor – NCT booklet, 2007

The Y Plan (video) Complete postnatal fitness plan

Understanding ADHD – Green, 1997

Sex in pregnancy and after childbirth – NCT booklet, 2000

5 minute first aid for babies – British Red Cross, 2005

Baby Massage – Walker, 2000

Food facts for pregnancy & breastfeeding – Hulme Hunter & Dodds, NCT, 2003

 

Miscarriage and Loss

Miscarriage – Lesley Regan, 2001

Brief Lives – NCT 1995

Miscarriage – NCT Information Sheet

 

Just email library@nct-hertsnorth.org.uk to borrow any of the books above.