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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.Great book! I definitely liked the information on the history of childbirth more than the recent stuff, but luckily the author provided a lengthy bibliography. I found a bunch of other books I want to read.
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.
132. Rum Fever & Caribbean Party Cookbook...Barbara Currie Dailey
133. A Key West Companion...Christopher Cox
134. Vegetable Heaven...Mollie Katzen
135. I read a book about lacrosse, but I cannot remember the name or author!
136. Hoot...Carl Hiassen137. Scat...Carl Hiassen
138. A Grimm Companion...Michael Buckley
139. Council of Mirrors...Michael Buckley
140. Al Capone Does My Shirts...Gennifer Choldenko
141. Al Capone Shines My Shoes...Gennifer Choldenko
142. The Secret of the Fortune Wookie...Tom Angleberger
These were all books my two sons wanted me to read, plus a couple I'm checking out for my nieces.
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