Not great for pregnant women

Narrator has a calm voice. She speaks clearly at a comfortable pace.

This book is full of detailed information about how the healthcare system in the US will do everything to make money off of your pregnancy and birth, often at the cost of maternal well-being, using unnecessary procedures and tests that will not help the baby. Overall, the anxiety-inducing language and themes of the book I find are too scary and unhelpful to women who are currently pregnant. The whole book is one long warning that you and your birth partner will have to mistrust the doctors and fight every step of the way to advocate for yourself, your baby, and a natural birth, which is good to know...

The boost of confidence pregnant women may benefit from in certain passages in the book (trust your body, you were made to give birth, preparing and informing yourself can help your achieve a heathy/natural pregnancy and delivery, etc.) I feel was significantly overshadowed by the stressful topics and graphic medical descriptions in the book. For example, the phrase "maternal death" is repeated constantly in one of the last chapters, which simultaneously claims that they are on the rise in the US since the 90s while also explaining that there is no reliable system for nationally counting the statistics on this issue.

This is probably better suited to health-care providers and students in the field of pregnancy, delivery, and post-partum care. For women who are pregnant and already know about the health risks and associated procedures and treatments, who are looking for a book for how to approach their pregnancy and giving birth with serenity and confidence through positive encouragement, keep looking.

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