Synopses & Reviews
For counselor Nancy Wainer Cohen, this book is the sibling to
Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth after Cesarean (Bergin & Garvey, 1983) her critically-acclaimed expose on America's growing reliance on cesarean sections.
Open Season provides fresh insights and new information on the subject, offering guidance to childbearing couples, educators, health professionals, and scholars who value the natural path of childbirth.
Readers will find this book timely, informative, shocking, irreverent, and extremely readable. Cohen's intimate writing style presents a compendium of knowledge on childbirth in the fashion of a personal letter. Her aim is to lower America's alarming reliance on cesarean section, which is currently at 25 percent of all births, and to return the responsibility for childbirth to women by encouraging them to choose the kind of birthing experience they wish to have. In addition to cesarean section, Cohen discusses many other generally unnecessary interventions performed on women during pregnancy and childbirth--such as fetal monitoring and routinized hospital procedures.
Synopsis
Our alarming reliance on cesarean sections, currently about 25 percent of all births, is exposed by Cohen in this timely, informative, shocking, irreverent, and extremely readable book.
Synopsis
This book provides fresh insights and new information on the subject of cesarean section in the United States. Our alarming reliance on ceserean sections, currently about 25 percent of all births, is again exposed by Cohen, as it was in her critically acclaimed book Silent Knife. Open Season offers guidance to childbearing couples, educators, health professionals, and scholars who value the natural path to childbirth. Readers will find this book timely, informative, shocking, irreverent, and extremely readable.
Synopsis
This book provides fresh insights and new information on the subject of cesarean section in the United States. Our alarming reliance on ceserean sections, currently about 25 percent of all births, is again exposed by Cohen, as it was in her critically acclaimed book Silent Knife. Open Season offers guidance to childbearing couples, educators, health professionals, and scholars who value the natural path to childbirth. Readers will find this book timely, informative, shocking, irreverent, and extremely readable.
Synopsis
This book provides fresh insights and new information on the subject of cesarean sections in the United States. Our alarming reliance on cesarean sections, currently about 25 percent of all births, is again exposed by Cohen, as it was in her critically acclaimed book Silent Knife.
About the Author
NANCY WAINER COHEN founded CSEC, Inc., the first and largest cesarean prevention organization in the country, in 1973. Since 1972, she has counseled thousands of women in the areas of cesarean prevention and "VBAC" ("vaginal birth after cesarean"--an acronym she coined). She continues individual counseling and also speaks throughout the country to pregnant women, childbirth educators, midwives, health professionals, and consumers. Ms. Wainer Cohen is the co-author of Silent Knife: Cesarean Prevention and Vaginal Birth After Cesarean (Bergin &Garvey, 1983).
Table of Contents
Introduction
Hello Again!
The Cutting Edge
Open Season?
Caught, Red-Handed!: The Status of Cesarean Section in the United States, Revisited
Voices, Lowered
Birthcrap! Interfearences and Interveintions, Once More
My Aching Feet
Bless the Beasts
Divine Nonintervention
Hospitals: Cesarean Baby Factories
"The Tears Are the Healing"
Learning as We Live! Childbirth Classes in the 1990s
Birth!
Not for VBACs Only
Voices Raised!: Starfish
Open Season!
Postscript
Afterword by Ester B. Zorn
Appendix 1: Values Clarification
Appendix 2: Addresses
References
Index