Expecting Trouble: What Expectant
Parents Should Know About Prenatal
Care in America by Jr., Thomas H.
Strong
A Must Have Book
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 Offers a careful regimen for
change and ready-to-use advice for pregnant women and their doctors. —
Publishers Weekly 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.

Personal Review: Expecting Trouble: What Expectant Parents
Should Know About Prenatal Care in America by Jr., Thomas H.
Strong
I'm about halfway through the book right now, and a quarter of the way
through my pregnancy. Although Expecting Trouble is a death knell for
prenatal care as we know it, the book was reassuring to me. It let me know
that I needn't feel out of the loop in caring for my own baby- the doctor isn't
the real authority in this case. Virtually all prenatal problems develop
regardless of the mother's prenatal care, whether a birth defect occurs
before a woman knows she is pregnant, or it is caused by genetics. It
either happens or it doesn't happen. So many women look to their doctors
as magical people who will diagnose and treat any potential problem.
During pregnancy, this just simply isn't the case most of the time. I feel
more at peace knowing that this is the type of situation that there simply is
no way to control, beyond maintaining good health and avoiding known
dangers. The majority of pregnancies are (medically) problem-free, and I
will feel less stressed knowing that I will probably have one of them. And if
something goes wrong, I will know that I couldn't control it.
I highly recommend this book, along with The Nature of Birth and
Breastfeeding, by Michel Odent.
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