Overview

Making and having babies-what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver-have mystified women and men throughout human history. The insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science. Here is an entertaining must-read-an enlightening celebration of human life.

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""[A] sharp, sassy history of childbirth... The author's engaging sarcasm, evident even in a caption of an illustration of an absurd obstetric contraption-'Nineteenth-century Italian do-it-yourself forceps. The fad never took off'-lends this chronicle a welcome punch and vitality often absent from medical histories. Roll over, Dr. Lamaze, and make room for Epstein's eyebrow-raising history."" -- Kirkus Reviews

[A] sharp, sassy history of childbirth.... The author s engaging sarcasm, evident even in a caption of an illustration of an absurd obstetric contraption 'Nineteenth-century Italian do-it-yourself forceps. The fad never took off' lends this chronicle a welcome punch and vitality often absent from medical histories.Roll over, Dr. Lamaze, and make room for Epstein s eyebrow-raising history.

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Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., M.P.H., the author of Aroused and Get Me Out, is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, a lecturer at Yale University, and writer in residence at Yale Medical School. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times and the Psychology Today blog, among others. She lives in New York.

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