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

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These include longer hospital stay; longer and more painful recovery; higher risk of infection, organ damage, adhesions, hemorrhage, embolism, and hysterectomy; more blood loss; higher chance of rehospitalization; higher chance of a ...more

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Cai’s Quotes

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman, Coraline

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“What they don’t understand is that obstetricians are surgeons, and they know pathology, but they really suck at wellness.” They are trained to sew up a tear, but not to prevent one.”
― Jennifer Block, Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

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“A cesarean section is a wound that impedes normal digestive function, function that must resume following surgery. Breast milk is delayed. Seven layers of tissue and muscle are severed.”
― Jennifer Block, Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

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“Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.”
― Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls

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“These include longer hospital stay; longer and more painful recovery; higher risk of infection, organ damage, adhesions, hemorrhage, embolism, and hysterectomy; more blood loss; higher chance of rehospitalization; higher chance of a complication with the next pregnancy; less initial contact with the baby; less success breastfeeding; higher risk of respiratory problems for the baby; and twice the risk of the most catastrophic complication of all: maternal death.51”
― Jennifer Block, Pushed: The Painful Truth About Childbirth and Modern Maternity Care

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