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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

“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

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

“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