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Your Baby, Your Way: Taking Charge of your Pregnancy, Childbirth, and Parenting Decisions for a Happier, Healthier Family Kindle Edition
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In Your Baby, Your Way award-winning journalist Jennifer Margulis explores our current cultural practices during pregnancy, childbirth, and the first year of a baby’s life, challenges advice given to new mothers, and encourages parents to question what they’re told about prenatal and infant care. Margulis explains how financial interests often skew the treatment we give to mothers and infants, investigating topics such as:
· How the diaper industry perpetuates delays in potty training
· Why cesareans are increasingly prevalent
· Why more women don’t breastfeed
Based on meticulous research and in-depth interviews with parents, doctors, midwives, nurses, health care administrators, and scientists, Margulis’s impassioned and eloquent critique is shocking, groundbreaking, empowering, and revelatory. Going beyond the advice in theWhat to Expect books, Your Baby, Your Way inspires and empowers, helping couples have a happier, healthier pregnancy and childbirth, and “motivates women to ask ‘why?’ before blindly agreeing to everything their doctor orders” (Booklist).
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherScribner
- Publication dateApril 16, 2013
- File size12939 KB
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"A new mother's first instinct is to protect her newborn. But how can she best do that in a consumer culture so focused on its bottom line? The Business of Baby exposes some hard and shocking facts about how even the most well-meaning American parents unwittingly buy into systems that do documented harm. Thought-provoking and exhaustively researched, this book is destined to inspire much-needed dialogue about the current American way of birthing and caring for our young." (Hope Edelman bestselling author of Motherless Daughters)
“Jennifer Margulis's searing and well-researched exposé is a must-read for expectant mothers. Whether she is discussing common obstetric practices, circumcision, vaccination, breastfeeding, bottlefeeding, diapering, or choosing a pediatrician, she points the way to rational, health-based decision-making.” (Ina May Gaskin )
“Worthy of close consideration by parents.” (Kirkus)
"A must-read for expectant mothers... points the way to rational, health-based decision-making.” (Ina May Gaskin, author of Spiritual Midwifery )
“The most ambitious and best documented popular book about the American way of birth and infant care I have ever seen.” (Norma Swenson, M.P.H. founding co-author, Our Bodies, Ourselves and lecturer, Harvard University, School of Public Health )
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- ASIN : B008J4KZH2
- Publisher : Scribner; Illustrated edition (April 16, 2013)
- Publication date : April 16, 2013
- Language : English
- File size : 12939 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 369 pages
- Best Sellers Rank: #954,719 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #226 in Obstetrics & Gynecology (Kindle Store)
- #253 in Vaccinations
- #648 in Pregnancy & Childbirth (Kindle Store)
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About the author

Jennifer Margulis, Ph.D., is an award-winning investigative journalist, Fulbright grantee, and sought-after speaker. The author/editor of seven nonfiction books, she has been researching and writing about issues related to children’s health and well-being for fifteen years. Her articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, on the cover of Smithsonian Magazine, and in dozens of other magazines, newspapers, and websites. She has taught literature in inner city Atlanta; appeared live on prime-time TV in Paris; and worked on a child survival campaign in Niger, West Africa. A meticulous researcher who's not afraid to stick her neck out, she is nationally known as a journalist whose writing helps empower women and children. The daughter of world-renowned evolutionary biologist Lynn Margulis, she is originally from Boston, Massachusetts but now lives with her family in southern Oregon.
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My husband is a doctor. I am a lawyer. We wish we had this book when our children were born - particularly our son. It would have been life-changing for our family.
I have read the conventional medical literature as has Dr Margulis. But Dr Margulis has also interviewed many people to make the book even more interesting, readable, and relevant.
Contrary to what the attackers say, this is a very well researched book, with a lot of valuable information for pre-pregnancy, pregnancy and anyone planning to have a baby or assist anyone who is having a baby. Jennifer Margulis is a scholar, a mother, and a world renowned lecturer who deserves acclaim for this timely and necessary work.


