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Readers can identify with being ideologically opposed to, say, episiotomies, but then agreeing to one under the duress of childbirth. Instead, it's one long tale of everywoman's worst moments-from the urge-to-pee problem to the terrible nausea of morning sickness followed by 'round ligament pain' (these are 'the bungee cords that anchor the uterus in place'), Braxton-Hicks contractions (which 'rehearse the body for labor') and the general nuttiness of each trimester of pregnancy. A cross between the quirkily thorough detail of Natalie Angier's science-writing and the passionate environmental advocacy of Rachel Carson, Steingraber's style would have been insufferably heroic if the pregnancy had been smooth, mind-over-matter. Steingraber ( Living Downstream) offers the commonest of stories-how she got pregnant, gave birth and fed her baby-in a most uncommon way.

Having faith by sandra steingraber