Book Review: Cesarean Section Understanding and Celebrating Your Baby’s Birth
I had just read two other c-section related books (What If I have a C-Section? and The Essential C-Section Guide) and was rather disappointed reading this one.
I found Cesarean Section Understanding and Celebrating Your Baby’s Birth to be rather impersonal…taking a very sensitive and emotional time in a woman’s life and making it very “medical” and I felt it added much more negativity. Reading this book I almost felt I was reading a consultation from a brash and impersonal doctor stating things very “matter-of-factly”…similar to how I feel when I read clinical studies. It left me thinking “Wait…that’s it? I still have questions!”
Granted I know others make like that type of book but I did not. I got virtually the same information regarding the procedure, risks, benefits, recovery, etc. from this book as I did in The Essential C-Section Guide but in a much more friendly and easy to read manner.
Wrap-Up:
Unless you prefer a more clinical and withdrawn approach to receiving health information pass on this book and get yourself What If I have a C-Section? by Rita Rubin. Read that first and then The Essential C-Section Guide by Maureen Connolly and Dana Sullivan. They compliment each other nicely…the basic information in Rubin’s book wets your toes for the more detailed information in “the guide” and they are both much easier to read, personal, and caring than this book.
