Expecting Trouble: What Expectant Parents Should Know About Prenatal Care in America - Softcover

Strong Jr., Thomas H.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0814797792 ISBN 13: 9780814797792

Publisher: NYU Press, 2002

Synopsis

In this controversial volume, Dr. Strong dispels widespread misconceptions about the effectiveness of prenatal care in its current form and explains how mothers themselves may influence the course and outcome of their pregnancies to a greater degree than do their obstetricians. He provides specific questions that parents should be asking their health care providers to ensure that they and their babies receive the best care possible.

About this title

About the Author

Thomas H. Strong, Jr., M.D., an award-winning speaker and researcher, is a board-certified Obstetrician-Gynecologist and Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist in Pheonix, Arizona. He is on the clinical faculty at the University of Arizona and the University of California at San Francisco (Fresno) Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology.

Review

"What makes this book important is its comprehensiveness, its general readability, and the fact that it has been written by a practicing obstetrician rather than a health services researcher or an academic obstetrician" (The New England Journal of Medicine)

"An incisive book, it should be on every obstetrician's reading list." (Mothering)

"Over the last 20 years, the majority of U.S. women have entered prenatal care early, yet our infant mortality and preterm rates have been lagging further and further behind other developed nations. It's past time to admit that something's very wrong with this picture and it's our children and families who are suffering. Tom Strong has the courage to question whether the problem might be with the prenatal care system itself and challenges the medical establishment and all of us to face and address this profound perinatal crisis in the America." (Dr. Greg R. Alexander,Professor and Chair, Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health, University of Alabama at Birmingham)

"Offers a careful regimen for change and ready-to-use advice for pregnant women and their doctors." (Publishers Weekly)

"It is nothing short of courageous for a perinatologist to reveal that the supposed benefits of prenatal care as it's currently being delivered are unsubstantiated in medical research. Anyone who reads this book will discover the simple truth that it is women themselves, rather than their physicians or midwives, who have the power to influence their baby's well-being. Dr. Strong makes it abundantly clear there is cause to redesign the prenatal care delivery system in this country." (Lylaine Gavette,Director of Bethany Women's Healthcare and Birth Center and member of the Board of Directors of the National Association of Childbearing Centers)

Edition details

• Publisher: NYU Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0814797792
• ISBN 13: 9780814797792
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 258