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Giving birth in the early 1990s in an Upper East Side hospital remains, in my memory, a primal experience. But as Tina Cassidy describes it in “Birth” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 312 pages, $24) — and she is persuasive — our choices about where, how, and even when to give birth are guided, if not limited, by a culture that shapes us much more than we realize. Most Western births these days take place in hospitals, though before the 20th century they usually took place at home. And the increasingly common induction or scheduled C-section means that we can choose the day and very nearly the hour at which we give birth.
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|Giving birth in the early 1990s in an Upper East Side hospital remains, in my memory, a primal experience. But as Tina Cassidy describes it in “Birth” (Atlantic Monthly Press, 312 pages, $24) — and she is persuasive — our choices about where, how, and even when to give birth are guided, if not limited, by a culture that shapes us much more than we realize. Most Western births these days take place in hospitals, though before the 20th century they usually took place at home. And the increasingly common induction or scheduled C-section means that we can choose the day and very nearly the hour at which we give birth.
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