Annie Reeder – Nashville TN Doula and Birth Coach

I read this volume in five days. Unheard of for a working at home mother, but somehow I squeezed the time out of each day and night to do it, neglecting many things in favor of this amazing book.

Three years late, it seems, I have bought and read “Pushed.” This book’s subtitle is ‘The painful truth about childbirth and modern maternity care.” It outlines the history of care in the US, how common interventions came to be, the statistics that support, or don’t support, the widespread practice of them, and suggests a few ways to begin to fix our extreme cesarean rate and equally extreme maternal mortality rate. This book has joined my must-read list for hopeful and expecting mothers.