Caitiebelle
Written on Aug 2, 2021
The beginning is very slow..and I can only take so much "God Bless America" before it started to annoy me and took away a lot of joy in the book. I found myself constantly annoyed every time I read it - so much so that it took away the rest of the book and my focus became the fear of how many pages I would read before it popped up again. (Not many...sometimes it was not even a page)
The middle was what gave it 3 stars. The book picked up halfway through and I saw hope. However, I have a huge problem on a personal level, with urban myths being portrait in books as facts.
Fears are one thing, by all means, put fears of all the things a new mother or pregnant mama is afraid of from labour to breastfeeding to child-rearing, but I start having issues with any book when it portrays things as facts.
Sometimes it's very easy to fall into that trap where maybe it's meant to be fear- but reads like a fact. And that's how I read a lot of the things in this book.
So that pulled it down again. Maybe it's the European Scandinavian in me reading what I can only assume is mainstream American hospital policies but there were several things in this book where I sat here thinking "ok..that's..not right. They don't do that. They shouldn't be doing that.".
Which always irks me. And that's got nothing to do with personal views on childbirth and rearing etc - just me reacting to plain urban legends and wrongful practice.
All that aside... Like I said it picked up in the middle...and I liked it for a while...then towards the end, I felt like it kind of ended a bit too abruptly for my taste sadly.
So all in all this book got nearly 3 stars and was a bit "meh" for me. And like I said, I nearly put it in the DNF pile quite early.