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Don’t buy someone else’s story of who you are or what you should do to be a “Good Mother.” Amy Tuteur speaks truth with love to help you and your baby stay strong and healthy through childbirth and those precious early months in your new family’s life. — Susan Lemagie, MD, FACOG, Assistant Clinical Professor at University of Washington
Relying on solid science with a generous dash of common sense, Push Back should be a welcome breath of reassurance for women. Looking for the best way to ensure a healthy baby and a healthy mom? This book is for you. — Roy Benaroch, MD, FAAP, Assistant Adjunct Professor of Pediatrics at Emory University and blogger at The Pediatric Insider
Push Back, a serious, important, and ultimately reassuring response to today’s pervading parenting cultural norms. This book offers an alternative to parents desperately seeking a different sort of birth or parenting script; one that relies more on intellect than emotion; on love rather than biology. — Suzanne Barston CLC, creator of The Fearless Formula Feeder blog and author of Bottled Up: How the Way We Feed Babies Has Come to Define Motherhood, and Why It Shouldn't
“I highly recommend that every mother and mother-to-be read Push Back. The amount of pain, suffering, and guilt that I could have avoided and alleviated had only I understood the flaws of the natural parenting paradigm as explained so thoroughly by Dr. Tuteur is immeasurable.” — Leigh Fransen, Certified Professional Midwife, HonestMidwife.com
Leigh Fransen
I highly recommend that every mother and mother-to-be read Push Back. The amount of pain, suffering, and guilt that I could have avoided and alleviated had only I understood the flaws of the natural parenting paradigm as explained so thoroughly by Dr. Tuteur is immeasurable.
Roy Benaroch
Relying on solid science with a generous dash of common sense, Push Back should be a welcome breath of reassurance for women. Looking for the best way to ensure a healthy baby and a healthy mom? This book is for you.
Susan Lemagie
Don’t buy someone else’s story of who you are or what you should do to be a “Good Mother.” Amy Tuteur speaks truth with love to help you and your baby stay strong and healthy through childbirth and those precious early months in your new family’s life.
Suzanne Barston CLC
Push Back, a serious, important, and ultimately reassuring response to today’s pervading parenting cultural norms. This book offers an alternative to parents desperately seeking a different sort of birth or parenting script; one that relies more on intellect than emotion; on love rather than biology.
Library Journal
11/01/2015
Natural parenting is no longer just for the tie-dyed crowd. But obstetrician-gynecologist Tuteur (How Your Baby Is Born) deplores the guilt it can engender—particularly in the area of childbirth—and argues that it's just another big business, hitting parents when they are most vulnerable. Lots of scientific information here, but the bottom line is that however a mother chooses to have her child is just fine. With a 100,000-copy first printing.