Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
by Jennifer Block

Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care
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Author: Jennifer Block
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Published)
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2007-06-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books

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Book Review: outstanding summary of the US birth situation
Summary: 5 Stars

This book is awesome. I've been a certified nurse midwife for 10 years and I teach maternity nursing and nurse midwifery in a university, and I was impressed again and again at the volume of accurate knowledge and interesting history provided by Block, a non-healthcare provider, on every page of this book. The book is also well-written, with great stories that illustrate situations facing those who seek to have an uncomplicated birth. I think that anyone who cares about the health of families should read this book and spread the word to help facilitate safe births for women and babies.

Summary of Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

In the United States, more than half the women who give birth are given drugs to induce or speed up labor; for nearly a third of mothers, childbirth is major surgery - the cesarean section. For women who want an alternative, choice is often unavailable: Midwives are sometimes inaccessible; in eleven states they are illegal. In one of those states, even birthing centers are outlawed.When did birth become an emergency instead of an emergence? Since when is normal, physiological birth a crime? A groundbreaking journalistic narrative, Pushed presents the complete picture of maternity care in America. Crisscrossing the country to report what women really experience during childbirth, Jennifer Block witnessed several births - from a planned cesarean to an underground home birth. Against this backdrop, Block investigates whether routine C-sections, inductions, and epidurals equal medical progress. She examines childbirth as a reproductive rights issue: Do women have the right to an optimal birth experience? If so, is that right being upheld? Block's research and experience reveal in vivid detail that while emergency obstetric care is essential, there is compelling evidence that we are overusing medical technology at the expense of maternal and infant health: Either women's bodies are failing, or the system is failing women.

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