Birth

Birth: The surprising history of how we are born
Tina Cassidy
You can probably tell that my reading choices tend to go along themes. Now that I am expecting again it is no surprise to those who know me that I am once again hungry for all books regarding pregnancy and birth.
This one was incredibly interesting and took us on a tour of how women have given birth throughout time. From the victorian era when the elite women were considered to fragil to give birth without the assistance of a "professional", to our Grandmother's era where women went through "twilight birth" without having any memory of having given birth at all. To our mothers generation where "natural birth" once again came back in style with midwives, then to our generation where women are treated as lab rats (my opinion, not the books) by a professional male who has never been through birth himself and is reluctant to spend more than half an hour with you in his office at a time.
It was easy reading and very enlightening.