{"product_id":"2940170609338","title":"My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After","description":"\u003cp\u003eTwenty-one vivid, moving essays on caesarean birth. \"No one talks about C-sections as surgery,\" writes SooJin Pate. \"They talk about it as if it's just another way - albeit more convenient way - of giving birth.\" The 21 essays in \u003ci\u003eMy Caesarean\u003c\/i\u003e add back to the conversation the missing voices of a vast, invisible sisterhood.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eRobin Schoenthaler reflects: \"A C-section for us meant life.\" And yet, women who don't give birth vaginally - by choice or necessity - often feel stigmatized. \"My son's birth was not a test I needed to pass,\" writes Sara Bates. \"As if growing a human inside another human for nine months then caring for it the rest of its life isn't enough,\" adds Mary Pan, herself a physician.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003eAlongside their personal stories, the writers -decorated novelists, poets, and essayists - address the history of the C-section as well as its risks, social inequities, impact on the body, and psychological aftermath. \u003ci\u003eMy Caesarean\u003c\/i\u003e is a heartfelt meditation, offering much-needed comfort through shared experience.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tantor Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150771601648,"sku":"2940170609338","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940170609338_p0.jpg?v=1763714077","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940170609338","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}