Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth in America ebook

by Suzanne Arms

Immaculate Deception by Suzanne Arms is empowering and insightful. Arms tackles some of the biggest myths that women in the United States face.

Immaculate Deception by Suzanne Arms is empowering and insightful.

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Suzanne Arms is an American writer. She has published seven books on childbirth and child care. In 1975, her second book, Immaculate Deception, was a New York Times Best Book of the Year; more than 250,000 copies were sold

Suzanne Arms is an American writer. In 1975, her second book, Immaculate Deception, was a New York Times Best Book of the Year; more than 250,000 copies were sold. Arms was born in Summit, New Jersey, and grew up on the East Coast of the United States. Her parents were teachers. She took a BA in literature from the University of Rochester in Rochester, New York.

Suzanne Arms, an American photographic journalist and a mother, is concerned with the warping of childbirth in modern obstetrical practice, its transformation into a medical event with consequent physical and psychic damage to both mother and child. The technology of childbirth began with the forceps, first used in the seventeenth century by surgeons as a means of hastening slow labors, but forbidden to-and criticized by-midwives.

Immaculate Deception. When you are informed you make better choices. This book has been handed down in our family for 3 generations. One of the best books I've ever read! By Thriftbooks. com User, July 26, 2008. The book can be a little over dramatic, but the author is trying to make a strong point. I think being a little over dramatic is necessary when she only has our attention for the short time it takes to read the book, yet she is trying to correct a message that society has pounded into our heads for our whole lives. It's a lot to undo in a short period of time.

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Immaculate deception: A new look at women and childbirth in America (1977) Breastfeeding: How to Breastfeed Your Baby (2004) Immaculate Deception II: Myth, Magic and Birth (2011) A Season to Be Born (1973) Immaculate Conception (1979). Lamaze International Lifetime Achievement Award. Suzanne Arms is an author, photojournalist, speaker, and activist on birthing issues and the bond within, and care of, the mother-baby system. She has written seven books on pregnancy, birthing, breastfeeding, bonding and adoption. A new look at women and childbirth in America. Published 1977 by Bantam Books.

A second book, Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth in America, appeared in. .Arms has made documentary films on pregnancy and birth: she shot, directed and produced Five Women, Five Births in the 1970s; Giving Birth (35') was made in 1998

A second book, Immaculate Deception: A New Look at Women and Childbirth in America, appeared in 1975. It became a best-seller, and was a New York Times Best Book of the Year; By 1979 it had sold more than 150,000 copies. Arms has made documentary films on pregnancy and birth: she shot, directed and produced Five Women, Five Births in the 1970s; Giving Birth (35') was made in 1998. She also directed and co-produced the film "Birth" with Christopher Carson, which is critical of the al-hospital approach to birth, proposing a different approach.

What is the deception? That birth is dangerous, risky, painful and terrifying. That birth in the American hospital is safe, quick and easy. That medical interference can "improve' the birth process with technology and drugs. That obstetricians know more about birth that women. That midwives are harmful to the birth process. That home birth is dangerous. That "natural birth" actually exists in the American hospital. That women in America have a choice in the method and place of birth. That modern woman can not give birth as naturally or matter-of-factly as her primitive sister, that she cannot endure pain, cannot overcome fear, cannot participate in the one process that has always been inherently and exclusively her own- the birth of her child.

Zut

I read this book in 1982 when I was pregnant with my second child. After having a nightmare the first time around. Best book every!!! We are so kept in the dark about our rights as a patient. This really opened my eyes!! Second birth was great. I verbalized what I wanted and didn't want. And made sure hospital respected my wishes. 1982 was before birthing rooms. They let me stay in the labor bed and my husband actually delivered our son. I bought this for a young lady in work who was having her first and had no clue what to expect. Doctors do things for their convenience and forget about the patients rights and well being of both mother and baby

Whitegrove

There's "Immaculate Deception II" by the same author, but I prefer this older version. Makes me nostaligic for the spirit of the seventies, when women, disillusioned with medical-industrial birth complex, just started to have their babies at home, and to help one another. Midwives like Raven Lang were self-taught. They did not go to MEAC approved midwifery school. They did not ask for permission - they just helped women.

Things have changed, a lot. There's a push for licensing in all states. There's an alphabet soup of midwifery organizations. And yet, something is lost - something be better recover before it's too late.

Oghmaghma

The books arrived very quickly in the condition described. Very fast and smooth transaction, would definetly recommend!

Eigonn

This book was probably novel at the time it was written, but much of the information is now outdated and needs revision. There might be a newer edition out - I don't know. That said, however, it's startling how much hasn't changed in the past 35 years. Hospitals are still robbing many women of their right to labor as they choose, and this book could be a good introduction to the issues for anyone interested.

Daigrel

The book is in great condition, just as promised. Shipped quickly and was exactly what I was expecting! I purchased this as a replacement for an old copy that my dog got to...

Bluecliff

I read this book when it first hit the shelves. I had just completed the first Women's History Class at UCLA. I had hope for the women's movement with regard to health and this book enthused me.

Despite being 43 years old, this book is NOT outdated. While some states have re-instituted midwives, some states still have not. Midwives have their hands tied in the hospital setting. Midwives are limited with what they can do in a birthing center and at home. Some states have made home birth illegal. The c/sec rate in this nation is abominable. While our infant mortality continues to be an embarrassment, our maternal mortality is climbing. This book may be old, but what has changed in the meantime that has helped women's health? Very little. Placenta accreta, percreta, and increta rates have multiplied, while in 1975, this condition was extremely rare. Placenta previa rates have increased also, a side effect of scar tissue on the uterine wall, clearly from previous surgeries as c/sec.

Recently, a healthy athlete nearly died in childbirth from a pulmonary embolism. She had this condition before, and had to tell the nurses what she had - what was the point in being in a hospital with knowledgeable personnel if the patient has to diagnose herself?

Samulkis

“Immaculate Deception” by Suzanne Arms is empowering and insightful. Arms tackles some of the biggest myths that women in the United States face. “Immaculate Deception” inspires women to advocate for themselves and their children in order to have safe, natural and unobstructed childbirths in the manner and environment of their choice. Suzanne Arms is quoted and discussed on pages 257 and 258 and include “Immaculate Deception” in the suggested reading section of Chapter 13: Optimizing Your Children’s Health in my book, Your Body Can Talk: How to Use Simple Muscle Testing for Health and Well Being.

One of the books that convinced me to have my baby at home back in 1986. Now that baby is grown. She read it during her first pregnancy and also gave birth at home. Ms. Arms lays out the facts of hospital birth (as standards in the 70s; hospitals have changed somewhat to create a better environment for birth). No need for dramatization or exaggeration. After talking to many women from many backgrounds who had babies in-hospital during the 60s and 70s, I learned a great deal. The key being that giving birth is not a medical emergency (with rare exceptions) and should not be treated as such. My viewpoint may differ from others. Certainly this book is not for every pregnant woman. If you are simply interested in how hospitals handle childbirth, or you are considering home birth, I highly recommend this book.