{"id":338,"date":"2007-12-01T15:23:37","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T21:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hippiemommy.com\/2007\/12\/01\/interesting-but-i-wouldnt-recommend-it-over-similar-books-rated-3-stars\/"},"modified":"2007-12-01T15:23:37","modified_gmt":"2007-12-01T21:23:37","slug":"interesting-but-i-wouldnt-recommend-it-over-similar-books-rated-3-stars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hippiemommy.com\/?p=338","title":{"rendered":"My review of Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born (rated 3 stars)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born<\/a><\/p>\n

by Tina Cassidy<\/p>\n


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I just finished this book, and I was disappointed to recognize many sections of it from another book that I am currently reading, Milk, Money, and Madness<\/em>. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think the author exactly plagiarized, but its pretty close. For example, Cassidy says in Birth<\/em><\/p>\n

At Dublin Foundling Hospital, of ten thousand hand-fed infants between 1775 and 1796, only forty-five survived infancy, an astounding mortality rate of 99.6 percent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In Milk, Money, and Madness<\/em>, it reads<\/p>\n

At the Dublin Foundling Asylum during 1775-96, where dry nursing was in vogue, only 45 children survived out of 10,272-a horrendous 99.6% mortality rate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just a few paragraphs later Cassidy says<\/p>\n

The ignorance and confusion surrounding bottle preparation spurred Nathan Straus, owner of Macy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s department store in New York, to give away pasteurized milk to poor children at philanthropic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153stations,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a concept that had also taken hold in Europe\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Milk, Money, and Madness<\/em> says<\/p>\n

Milk stations were soon all the fashion. At the turn of the century, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153milk depots\u00e2\u20ac\u009d were established in France, Britain, and the United States\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 In New York, Nathan Strauss of Macy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, working through health department clinics, organized milk stations where pasteurized, bottled milk was provided free for the needy and at low cost to others.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You get my point. I saw dozens of these kinds of passages, which was a real turn-off. Milk, Money, and Madness<\/em> came out 11 years earlier, and apparently used fantastic sources since Cassidy lifted passages like the ones above.<\/p>\n

My other complaint is that Cassidy swings back and forth throughout the text. First she talks about how its a miracle that any of us can survive childbirth and that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll soon all need C-sections because our kids keep getting bigger and bigger. Then she talks about how doctors are killing us all and homebirths with midwives are safer. Then she says she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d never homebirth.<\/p>\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m very glad that I read this after my latest pregnancy. Cassidy admits that she doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust her body, and it is evident in the text. I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t recommend this book to a pregnant woman.<\/p>\n

Cassidy has some really cool pictures in here though. The chapter on C-sections was horrifying, but really interesting at the same time. I feel so many mixed emotions about this book. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m glad that I read it, but I wonder if the sections that I liked could\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been found in other books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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