Real Birth Women Share Their Stories Author:Robin Greene Intimate and intensely personal, the 36 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 theyve made and the ways those choices ... more »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 directlyno interviewer intrudes, no judgements intrude, and no single method of childbirth is advocated. Instead, these women offer us their candid experiences, presented clearly and unflinchingly. Medically reviewed by family practice physician Dr. Richard Randolph, Real Birth offers readers a plethora of correct information as wellthe kind of real scoop that other books and health care professionals are often reluctant to reveal. The result is a book that reaches across the boundaries of current childbirth literature. Real Birth is introduced by Ariel Gore, author of The Hip Mamas Survival Guide, and contains an afterword by Grey Brown, author of Staying In. Also included are an extensive glossary of medical terms, a thoroughly researched selective bibliography, and a list of resources of interest to pregnant women.« less