Book Rec: “Birth: The Surprising History Of How We Are Born”

February 17th, 2009

I’m in the middle of reading this amazing book about how humans have given birth in the modern world.   Tina Cassidy touches on some interesting evolutionary ideas, as well, but I’m sucked in by the stories of labor from the past couple of hundred years.  Medicine really used to treat pregnancy and labor as illnesses, long before the advent of the pathogenic theory of medicine become popular.  This led to all kinds of messy births and (in retrospect) CRAZY ideas of how people should be born.  And the loony stuff they were doing when your parents were giving birth… don’t even think they knew what they were doing!  If you’re expecting and are tired of reading the same old “baby manuals”, give this book a spin.

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