REAL BIRTH Women Share Their Stories Author:Robin Greene Intimate and intensely personal, the forty-five first-person narratives contained in Real Birth: Women Share Their Stories offer readers a window into the complex and emotionally exciting experience of childbirth. Women from a full range of socioeconomic backgrounds and circumstances recount the childbirth choices they've made and the ways those... more » choices have played themselves out in the real life contexts of their everyday lives. Readers meet women from all over the country who speak to us directly--no interviewer intrudes, no judgments intrude, and no single method of childbirth is advocated. Instead, these women offer us their candid experiences, presented clearly and unflinchingly.
these narratives fill a gap for those seeking a realistic description
of the birthing process from the mother's view
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I am an English professor and a mother, and I read the manuscript of Real Birth when I was less than three months pregnant... I couldn't put it down... During the rest of my pregnancy, I read my partner stories aloud in the evenings and together we used Real Birth to prepare for the birth of our first child.
What Pregnant Women Are Saying About REAL BIRTH
I wish that I'd read Real Birth in my first trimester... In its pages I found women of all stripes... There were women from rural backgrounds, urban women, women of all religious varieties, women whose ideas about birthing varied wildly. In story after story, I met women whose experience of pregnancy and birthing were fascinating and compelling--and their own.
What Pregnant Women Are Saying About REAL BIRTH
Robin Greene's Real Birth is both a great read and a fantastic resource... The diversity of the stories is wonderful, and Greene manages to keep each woman's voice distinct and each story equally enthralling.
What Pregnant Women Are Saying About REAL BIRTH
The mothers who tell their stories in Robin Greene's Real Birth
are like a support group for both new and experienced moms.
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