Table of Contents
Introduction: No Little Thing
First Trimester
1 Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy Did We Save Enough of Your Life?
2 Choosing a Provider Scut Is Love 24
3 Genetic Testing Everything Is Probably Okay 35
Second Trimester
4 Anatomy Ultrasound Incidentalomas 65
Third Trimester
5 Periviable Birth A Necessary Story 95
Term Pregnancy
6 Trial of Labor after Cesarean Accept and Reject Intervention 107
7 Stillbirth When We Talk about Birth, We Need to Talk about Death 129
Going into the Hospital (Or Staying Out)
8 Informed Consent Sign Here and Don't Ask Too Many Questions 155
9 Medical Systems and Home Birth How Institutions Save You or Fail You or Both 185
Postpartum and Beyond
10 Maternal Mortality and Racial Disparities in Health Care Implicit, Complicit 223
Conclusion: Let's Go Home 243
Acknowledgments 259
Notes 263
Index 277