Birth Notes: a Collection of True Stories from Obstetricians (medical Humanities Series)

About This Novel

What exactly does childbirth mean to a woman's body? What will it cost society as a whole if we don't talk honestly about fertility? According to Chave Eve Karkovsky, a senior expert on pregnancy and obstetrics at the top medical schools in the United States, movies, television dramas and the media portray childbirth as too simple and happy. Almost no one really knows what will happen during, before and after pregnancy. No one knows that in addition to joy, pregnancy may also expose women to embarrassment, fear, anger, and even life danger. Karkovsky believes that most women and their families are completely unprepared for childbirth. How can the pain of morning sickness be ignored? Why does pregnancy test become a painful right to know? To what extent can it be a personal decision to choose between a vaginal delivery or a cesarean section, and whether or not to have a fallopian tube ligation? How has intrauterine fetal death become the deepest anxiety in modern obstetric care, and how can it be avoided? Brave, rigorous, and gentle, Karkovsky unearths years of frontline experience to tell personal pregnancy stories, lifting the heavy curtains of obstetrics and delivery rooms, as well as the fog that shrouds the female body and birth culture. She talks about both the joy of life and the shadow of death, the operation of medical treatment, and the social concepts and cultural background behind childbirth. Karkovsky upholds a professional spirit and cares about patients and women. In her experience, she says, the most common phrase she hears is "I wish someone had told me." In this book, she lays out everything she thinks women should know and society should understand. Because, "women's health is human health."

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