When Rachel Somerstein had an unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything but the "routine." Mothers are often left to navigate these complications alone. Somerstein weaves personal narrative and investigative journalism with medical, social, and cultural history to reveal the operation's surprising evolution. Candid, raw, and illuminating, Somerstein lifts the veil on C-sections so that mothers can navigate future pregnancies and births with more knowledge about surgical birth's risks, benefits, and alternatives.
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