Babies Are Not Pizzas: They're Born, Not Delivered

One in three births is traumatic.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

Like many first-time parents, Rebecca walked into labor and delivery as a healthy pregnant person and walked out as a statistic—as someone who had a traumatic birth.

Rebecca planned to give birth at the hospital affiliated with her university, where she was an award-winning nurse researcher finishing her doctoral degree. But hospital practices and policies that were more than twenty years out of date left her with complications that seemed preventable. Worst for Rebecca, her healthy baby was whisked off to a nursery right away. She spent the first few hours after birth begging to see her own baby!

A few years later and pregnant again, Rebecca put her research skills to work and examined the hard evidence on what went wrong with her first childbirth experience.

She discovered shocking truths that not only impact millions of families every year, but would change the entire course of her life.

Embark on a journey with Rebecca as she exposes the stark realities of institutional care during childbirth and reveals inspirational solutions for parents and professionals alike.

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Babies Are Not Pizzas: They're Born, Not Delivered

One in three births is traumatic.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

Like many first-time parents, Rebecca walked into labor and delivery as a healthy pregnant person and walked out as a statistic—as someone who had a traumatic birth.

Rebecca planned to give birth at the hospital affiliated with her university, where she was an award-winning nurse researcher finishing her doctoral degree. But hospital practices and policies that were more than twenty years out of date left her with complications that seemed preventable. Worst for Rebecca, her healthy baby was whisked off to a nursery right away. She spent the first few hours after birth begging to see her own baby!

A few years later and pregnant again, Rebecca put her research skills to work and examined the hard evidence on what went wrong with her first childbirth experience.

She discovered shocking truths that not only impact millions of families every year, but would change the entire course of her life.

Embark on a journey with Rebecca as she exposes the stark realities of institutional care during childbirth and reveals inspirational solutions for parents and professionals alike.

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Babies Are Not Pizzas: They're Born, Not Delivered

Babies Are Not Pizzas: They're Born, Not Delivered

by Rebecca Dekker
Babies Are Not Pizzas: They're Born, Not Delivered

Babies Are Not Pizzas: They're Born, Not Delivered

by Rebecca Dekker

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Overview

One in three births is traumatic.

It doesn’t have to be that way.

Like many first-time parents, Rebecca walked into labor and delivery as a healthy pregnant person and walked out as a statistic—as someone who had a traumatic birth.

Rebecca planned to give birth at the hospital affiliated with her university, where she was an award-winning nurse researcher finishing her doctoral degree. But hospital practices and policies that were more than twenty years out of date left her with complications that seemed preventable. Worst for Rebecca, her healthy baby was whisked off to a nursery right away. She spent the first few hours after birth begging to see her own baby!

A few years later and pregnant again, Rebecca put her research skills to work and examined the hard evidence on what went wrong with her first childbirth experience.

She discovered shocking truths that not only impact millions of families every year, but would change the entire course of her life.

Embark on a journey with Rebecca as she exposes the stark realities of institutional care during childbirth and reveals inspirational solutions for parents and professionals alike.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781732549661
Publisher: Evidence Based Birth
Publication date: 08/20/2019
Pages: 256
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Rebecca Dekker, PhD, RN, is the founder and CEO of Evidence Based Birth®. After earning her Bachelor's, Master's, and PhD in Nursing, Rebecca embarked on a career as a nurse scientist and teacher. In 2016, she left academia to become a full-time entrepreneur and consumer advocate for evidence based care. Rebecca lives in Lexington, Kentucky, where she and her husband Dan are raising three children and an assortment of pets. Babies Are Not Pizzas is her first book.

Table of Contents

Author’s Note vi

Chapter One: Naive 1

Chapter Two: Evidence 16

Chapter Three: Discovery 36

Chapter Four: Take-off 62

Chapter Five: Power 75

Chapter Six: Friendship 96

Chapter Seven: Surprise 112

Chapter Eight: Woke 129

Chapter Nine: Trapped 152

Chapter Ten: Escape 175

Chapter Eleven: Freedom 192

Epilogue 210

Thank You 223

Resources 224

Acknowledgments 227

Endnotes 230

About the Author 249

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