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A Harvard-trained obstetrician-gynecologist, a dominant blogger, and writer of the basic How Your Baby Is Given birth to gives a timely, important, and certain to be headline-making exposé that shines a light on the natural parenting activity and the multimillion-dollar industry behind it. The natural parenting activity praises the virtues of beginning without medical disturbance, staunchly advocates breastfeeding for many mothers, and hails connection parenting. After the exclusive province of the choice lifestyle, natural parenting has truly gone mainstream, becoming a profitable big business today. But those who do not subscribe to this method are often made to feel like they may be doing their children injury. Dr. Amy Tuteur recognizes their apprehensions. "Parenting quickly seems synonymous with guilt. And of late there is no bigger arena for this pervasive guilt than childbirth." To be a medical expert with a long career in obstetrics and gynecology and as the mom of four children, Tuteur is no stranger to the insurmountable stresses and subsequent thoughts of blame and self-condemnation that mothers experience throughout their children's early years. The natural parenting activity, she contends, is not assisting them raise their children better. Instead it capitalizes on their uncertainty, manipulating parents when they are most prone. In Thrust Back, she chronicles the movement's background from its roots to its modern methods, combining her own encounters as a mom and successful OB-GYN with unique research on the latest in childbirth knowledge. She also reveals the dangerous and overtly misogynistic motives of a few of its proponents - conventional men who seek to limit women's control and autonomy. As she debunks, one by one, the guilt-inducing misconceptions of natural beginning and parenting, Dr. Tuteur empowers women to embrace the method of childbirth that's right for the kids while reassuring all parents that the most crucial thing they can do is love and care for their children.
