Expecting Trouble: What Expectant Parents Should Know About Prenatal Care in America
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“What makes this book important is its comprehensiveness, its general readability, and the fact that it has been written by a practicing obstetrician rather than a health services researcher or an academic obstetrician” —The New England Journal of Medicine Offers a careful regimen for change and ready-to-use advice for pregnant women and their doctors.” —Publishers Weekly In this controversial volume, Dr. Strong dispels widespread misconceptions about th… More >>
Expecting Trouble: What Expectant Parents Should Know About Prenatal Care in America
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This book should be required reading for every woman in American.
Rating: 5 / 5
This valuable book contains information every expectant parent should have before deciding on what type of prenatal care to receive.
Rating: 5 / 5
This book was enlightening to say the least. It really opens your eyes to the fallacies of Obstetric care in America.
The more you learn about birth, the more you doubt the so-called “professionals.”
We have been duped into thinking childbirth is a mechanical event, something to be feared, and managed by some outside source. None of this could be further from the truth. And the truth can be found in this book.
For your safety and sanity- read this book.
Rating: 5 / 5
I’m about halfway through the book right now, and a quarter of the way through my pregnancy. Although Expecting Trouble is a death knell for prenatal care as we know it, the book was reassuring to me. It let me know that I needn’t feel out of the loop in caring for my own baby- the doctor isn’t the real authority in this case. Virtually all prenatal problems develop regardless of the mother’s prenatal care, whether a birth defect occurs before a woman knows she is pregnant, or it is caused by genetics. It either happens or it doesn’t happen. So many women look to their doctors as magical people who will diagnose and treat any potential problem. During pregnancy, this just simply isn’t the case most of the time. I feel more at peace knowing that this is the type of situation that there simply is no way to control, beyond maintaining good health and avoiding known dangers. The majority of pregnancies are (medically) problem-free, and I will feel less stressed knowing that I will probably have one of them. And if something goes wrong, I will know that I couldn’t control it.
I highly recommend this book, along with The Nature of Birth and Breastfeeding, by Michel Odent.
Rating: 5 / 5
It’s such a no brainer that prenatal care is really wonderful, helpful and good. Strong, second generation in the medical care of pregnant women, has a lot of reservations and a lot of data to back those reservations up. He also has some suggestions for how things could be improved: involve certified nurse midwives in prenatal care to avoid the temptation to complicate a normal pregnancy and birth, keep NICUs regional (so they don’t turn in to profit centers, complicating life for normal newborns and their new parents). He’d like to believe that preconception care would help (by getting women help to stop smoking and so forth before they get pregnant), but he’s sensible enough to recognize there are some hard limits on what the medical profession can do in the face of widespread social problems.
Rating: 5 / 5