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Birth
by Tina Cassidy

This book is organized in a way that gives the reader facts and historical information about how women have been giving birth. Each chapter deals with a different aspect of birth and the process that dates from different time periods. One of the major questions this book focuses on is how has the way women give birth and choose to give birth changed over time and over generations. There's certainly been a change over time in the way birth is handled in our culture, from women having natural births with midwives present to now having cesarean births in hospitals.

How different generations of women and different cultures have dealt with birth and the role of nature and how birth is suppose to be a natural experience for women is an insight that I agree with because over time they way women give birth compared to years ago has changed. With new medical technology, hospitals, the absence of midwives, and more cesarean births taking place than natural births.

. How woman's bodies have changed and adapted to giving birth over time.
. The connection between the woman's diet and the size baby she delivers.
. How midwives are no longer present at as much births then before.
. The role hospitals play now in the birth process.
. The role drugs play during birth for women.

In this book the author uses a lot of factual evidence with a few stories thrown in. Mostly cluing the reader in on facts and historical information on how we are born. She also includes stuff about her birth experience and the women of her family that allow the reader to connect.