About the Book: Invisible Labor
An incisive yet personal look at the science and history of the most common
surgery performed in America—the cesarean section—and an exposé on the
disturbing state of maternal medical care When Rachel Somerstein had an
unplanned C-section with her first child, the experience was anything but
"routine." A series of errors by her clinicians led to a real-life nightmare:
surgery without anesthesia. The ensuing mental and physical complications left
her traumatized and searching for answers about how things could have gone so
wrong. In the United States, one in three babies is born via C-section, a rate
that has grown exponentially over