Get Me Out: A History of Childbirth from the Garden of Eden to the Sperm Bank

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Overview

Making and having babies—what it takes to get pregnant, stay pregnant, and deliver—has mystified women and men for the whole of human history. The birth gurus of ancient times told newlyweds that simultaneous orgasms were necessary for conception and that during pregnancy a woman should drink red wine but not too much and have sex but not too frequently. Over the last one hundred years, depending on the latest prevailing advice, women have taken morphine, practiced Lamaze, relied on ultrasound images, sampled fertility drugs, and shopped at sperm banks.

In Get Me Out, the insatiably curious Randi Hutter Epstein journeys through history, fads, and fables, and to the fringe of science, where audacious researchers have gone to extreme measures to get healthy babies out of mothers. Here is an entertaining must-read—and an enlightening celebration of human life.

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Randi Hutter Epstein is here to tell us in Get Me Out, her engrossing survey of the history of childbirth, that even with all of today's whiz-bang technology, "We are still in the dark about so many things that go into making babies." Writing that pregnancy has always been "a wonderful blend of custom and science," Epstein takes us on a delightful romp through past guides that are filled with a whole lot of do-this-but-avoid-that advice. "You've got to be kidding me" will be the reaction to most of it.
—The Washington Post
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Medical journalist Epstein provides a sharp, sassy history of childbirth. The book is as much a study in sociology as historical snapshot of human birthing practices and gynecological advances, with particular emphasis on developments in the late 19th- and 20th-century United States. Beginning with Eve, who "started the whole birth-is-painful thing," and concluding in the present with couples "who sperm-shop and freeze eggs for one reason or another," Epstein convincingly demonstrates that the human desire to control all aspects of birth has been "a goal since antiquity." The author covers several centuries'-worth of wildly divergent birthing customs and practices. From the earliest books on women's health, written by monks, to childbed fever being spread by health practitioners and birthing wards, to early-20th-century feminists arguing that upper-class women had weaker physiologies than their working-class sisters, to the staggering statistic that C-section rates in America have risen 46 percent in the past ten years with no corresponding drop in maternal mortality, Epstein ably investigates the charged, ever-evolving scientific and social perspectives on birth. The author's engaging sarcasm, evident even in a caption of an illustration of an absurd obstetric contraption-"Nineteenth-century Italian do-it-yourself forceps. The fad never took off")-lends this chronicle a welcome punch and vitality often absent from medical histories. Roll over, Dr. Lamaze, and make room for Epstein's eyebrow-raising history.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780393064582
  • Publisher: Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
  • Publication date: 1/11/2010
  • Pages: 302
  • Sales rank: 333,424
  • Product dimensions: 5.80 (w) x 8.30 (h) x 1.20 (d)

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Randi Hutter Epstein, M.D., is a medical journalist who has written for magazines and newspapers, including the New York Times and the Washington Post. She lives in New York City with her husband and four children.

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  • Posted August 28, 2011

    Awesome

    I really enjoyed it. I actually read a hard copy of it. I m the mama of 2 kids and it was fun to read. I ll be looking for something similar soon!!

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