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Pregnancy Stories
Real Women Share the Joys, Fears, Thrills, and Anxieties of Pregnancy from Conception to Birth
By Cecelia A. Cancellaro Review by Jessica Williams
I'm the mother of two, pregnant with my third, and I've been writing about pregnancy and childbirth for years. I'm also a childbirth educator. But despite all of this experience, I find myself picking up Cecelia A. Cancellaro's book, Pregnancy Stories, again and again. I'm drawn to it because regardless of experience, reading stories by other women is intriguing.
Pregnancy Stories is full of all types of tales – from complicated pregnancies to unmedicated births. The book is organized intuitively, staring with conception and working through the pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum periods. I was delighted to see a section of stories written by fathers – something rare in a pregnancy book.
The women and couples in this book are diverse. First-time mothers, working mothers, single mothers, and even a lesbian couple all add their voices to this tapestry. The stories are told in first-person and filled with emotion.
I find myself reading and re-reading the sections that apply to me through each stage of this pregnancy – especially the segment on pregnancy complications. A few weeks ago I began having symptoms of Pregnancy-Induced Hypertension (PIH). Cancellaro didn't sugar-coat pregnancy when choosing stories to include in the book. A story of a woman having an eclamptic seizure is particularly frightening. This story struck me so deeply the first time I read it (earlier in my pregnancy), that it was the first thing I thought of when the nurse announced my high blood pressure.
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