My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After (eBook)

Amanda Fields, Rachel Moritz (Herausgeber)

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2019
256 Seiten
The Experiment, LLC (Verlag)
978-1-61519-553-4 (ISBN)

Infos

A deeply personal essay collection that explores the physical, emotional, and psychological impact of C-section births on motherhood and identityMy son’s birth was not a test I needed to pass, not something I needed to do in a certain way to become a worthy mother . . . An astute and vivid collection of personal essays about caesarean birth, My Caesarean features writing by decorated novelists, poets, essayists, and journalists. At a time when more and more women exalt the experience of vaginal childbirth, those who give birth by C-section are increasingly isolated.My Caesarean deftly explores these perspectives and many others. At turns, the essays address the history and current surgical trend of the caesarean, its impact on the mother’s body and postoperative realities, the psychological aftermath—which sometimes unfolds well after the birth of the child—and how to heal. A beautiful, much-needed meditation on the shared experience of C-section mothers, this collection pulls back the curtain on the quiet shame, social guilt, and possible trauma of C-section birth to offer comfort and acceptance through shared experience.

Autor

Amanda Fields is the co-editor of Toward, Around, and Away from Tahrir (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014), and she lives in Wethersfield, CT. She gave birth to her daughter via C-section.Rachel Mortiz is the author of the poetry collections Sweet Velocity (Lost Roads Press, 2017) and Borrowed Wave (Kore Press, 2015), and she lives in Minneapolis, MN. Her son was born by C-section.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.5.2019
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Schwangerschaft / Geburt
• Schlagworte: abnormal positioning • Baby • baby led • Birth • BLW • Breastfeeding • breast milk • breast pump • breech • caesarean section • cephalopelvic disproportion • Childbirth • children • C-Section • Depression • diet • Dietary • Distress • ectopic • Education • Essay • failure to progress • Family • Feeding • fetal • fireflies • formula • Guide • Health • Healthy • Hospital • Infant • Labor • Lactation • latching • maternal • medicalization • MoM • mother • Motherhood • NATURAL • nature memoir • newborn • nourishment • nursing • Nutrition • Pediatric • placenta previa • Poetic • postpartum • Preeclampsia • Pregnancy • Recovery • strong • Superfood • Surgery • Trauma • Trimester • VBAC • Weaning • whale sharks • Women • world of wonders
• ISBN-10: 1-61519-553-X / 161519553X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61519-553-4 / 9781615195534