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Book Review of Your Pregnancy and Birth : Information You Can Trust from the Leading Experts in Women's Health Care

KrystaS avatar reviewed on
Helpful Score: 1


If someone is having a complicated pregnancy, this would be a good book to read. For the vast majority of women who have normal, healthy pregnancies and (could have) normal non-medical births, this book isn't applicable.

While this book has useful information, it addresses a medicalized pregnancy & birth, and includes some "old doctor's tales" which are not supported, and in some cases are even shown to be dangerous, by research.

As a companion to this volume, I recommend Henci Goer's book Obstetric Myths Versus Research Realities (ISBN 0897894278). It will help you sort out the facts from the opinions.