Expecting Better Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom, Give Birth Like a Feminist 2 Books Collection Set
Expecting Better: Why the Conventional Pregnancy Wisdom is Wrong and What You Really Need to Know
Award-winning Emily Oster debunks myths about pregnancy to empower women while they're expecting.
Pregnant women are often treated as if they were children, given long lists of items to avoid - alcohol, caffeine, sushi - without any real explanation from their doctors about why. They hear frightening and contradictory myths about everything from weight gain to sleeping on your back to bed rest from friends and pregnancy books. In EXPECTING BETTER, Oster shows that the information given to pregnant women is sometimes wrong and almost always oversimplified.
EXPECTING BETTER overturns standard recommendations for alcohol, caffeine, sushi, bed rest and induction, while putting in context the blanket guidelines for fetal testing, weight gain, risks of pregnancy over the age of 35, and nausea, among others.
Oster offers the real-world advice one would never get at the doctor's office. Knowing that the health of your baby is paramount, readers can know more and worry less. Having the numbers is a tremendous relief - and so is the occasional glass of wine
Give Birth Like a Feminist
Give Birth Like a Feminist: Your body. Your baby. Your choices
Description As featured on BBC Radio 5 Live
Birth is a feminist issue. Its the feminist issue nobody talking about.
For too long women have been told; a healthy baby is all that matters. This book dares to say women matter too.
Finally blasting the feminist spotlight into the labour ward; Milli Hill encourages women everywhere to stand and deliver; insisting that birth is no longer left off the list in discussions about female power; control and agency.
From the importance of birth plans to your human rights in childbirth; and including birth stories from women across the world; this call-to-arms will help you find your voice; take an active role in your choices; and change the way you think about childbirth
