Maggie MacLean’s Reviews > Like a Mother: A Feminist Journey Through the Science and Culture of Pregnancy > Status Update

The misinformation and anger in this book makes it a tough read. She take arduous measures to talk about how the scientific community doesn’t give us information on the placenta or umbilical cord (which I get, you do have to hunt for it), but then she makes incorrect statements about how precious the baby’s umbilical cord is because so much of her blood ran through it (but the baby has an independent blood flow)