HW#38 - Insights from pregnancy & birth book - part 1

The book is organized in time periods. It starts out from ancient times to the 1900's. The author talks about a lot of different women in each time period relating to there birth story and how its changed over time. The major question that is being asked i believe is how our system of birth and pregnancy has evolved over a course of millions of years. From my point of view, i think that this is a interesting questiom because i was particularly wondering how women/other living things give birth compared in other places and time periods. The book has been very engaging so far and i enjoy it. The first 100 pages of the book was talking about the woman's body and how their pelvis are narrow and how painful it has been to give birth. It also talks about thw midwifery history and many famous women have helped with giving birth. I believe that midwives deserve a lot of recongition. Rather than using so much technology with birth i believe it should be natural. It true that we are possibly making the giving birth process worse instead of improving. She uses a lot of statistics about the birth epidemic and lot of historic facts.