Month: July 2020

4 stars. I can tell you that when I put this on my TBR list I did not expect to read a book about obstetric violence and abuse, but that’s what I got. This book was eye opening! I found myself in constant awe and horror as a learned about current practices in hospital labor and delivery wings and how most of them are at least 15 years out of date with current research! What the heck! Anyway, I’m here to review a book not give a summary. The book was organized in a simple enough way to understand and included many references to evidence-based knowledge about pregnancy and birth that, should I ever have children, I would refer to as well as doing some of my own research. It made me want to go straight hippy and read a book by Ina May Gaskin. Some of the knowledge was beyond me, just because I have never been pregnant and might never be. But it was simple enough to understand while simultaneously disheartening. But I did learn at the very end that if you don’t want to read the book, like I did, you can go to the associated website for any questions you may have from vitamin K to racism to lithotomy.  It was certainly an interesting read, very emotional. I do not get anything from posting this link, but if you want an unopinionated version of this book I’d recommend reading the research articles posted on the Evidence Based Birth Blog.