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Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born. By Tina Cassidy
The other day I found myself at the edge of a bed, applying counter pressure to my client's lower back as she moaned through the waves of another contraction. She and her partner are both history buffs and after her contraction subsided, her partner began wondering out loud, "What was this process like 100 years ago?" My client, still talking in between the surges, answered, "Yeah, I would love to find out. It must have been so different."
Different it was, as Tina Cassidy points out in her book, Birth: The Surprising History of How We are Born. Cassidy, a Boston-based journalist, gave birth to her first son, George, "at a major hospital in the medical mecca of Boston." After being told that her baby was stuck in her birth canal and an emergency cesarean section was performed, she asked her doctor, "What did they do in that situation before there...
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