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

Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

Jennifer Block

316 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

5.0emilylandry's review
nonfiction health challenging informative slow-paced
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman

The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures

Anne Fadiman

341 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

5.0emilylandry's review
nonfiction health science challenging emotional informative slow-paced
Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife by Peggy Vincent

Baby Catcher: Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

Peggy Vincent

336 pages • first pub 2002 (editions)

5.0emilylandry's review
nonfiction memoir emotional reflective fast-paced
To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed by Alix Kates Shulman

To Love What Is: A Marriage Transformed

Alix Kates Shulman

180 pages • first pub 2008 (editions)

5.0emilylandry's review
nonfiction biography memoir emotional reflective sad slow-paced
Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems by Sharon Olds

Blood, Tin, Straw: Poems

Sharon Olds

144 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0emilylandry's review
nonfiction literary poetry emotional reflective slow-paced
The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year by Louise Erdrich

The Blue Jay's Dance: A Birth Year

Louise Erdrich

240 pages • first pub 1995 (editions)

5.0emilylandry's review
nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective slow-paced
Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood by Naomi Wolf

Misconceptions: Truth, Lies, and the Unexpected on the Journey to Motherhood

Naomi Wolf

352 pages • first pub 1999 (editions)

5.0emilylandry's review
nonfiction feminism memoir challenging informative reflective slow-paced
The Doula Guide to Birth: Secrets Every Pregnant Woman Should Know by Ananda Lowe, Rachel Zimmerman

The Doula Guide to Birth: Secrets Every Pregnant Woman Should Know

Ananda Lowe, Rachel Zimmerman

304 pages • first pub 2009 (editions)

5.0emilylandry's review
nonfiction informative fast-paced
The Birth Partner by Penny Simkin

The Birth Partner

Penny Simkin

337 pages • first pub 1989 (editions)

5.0emilylandry's review
nonfiction health reference informative slow-paced
Spiritual Midwifery by Ina May Gaskin

Spiritual Midwifery

Ina May Gaskin

482 pages • first pub 1975 (editions)

5.0emilylandry's review
nonfiction health informative inspiring medium-paced