My favorite example: she sews a velvet pouch for one of her baby's placentas so that they can pack it in there with herbs and keep it attached for a week or two until it naturally falls off, because she read that a tribe did that somewhere. The white hippie who's really into reggae and "global" music. Occasionally I would put the book down and feel like I had just left a sophomore in the cafeteria who was continuing to pontificate at me, totally unaware of my absence.Ģ. What's causation? What's correlation? Were there any studies that refuted any of those studies? Studies have a way of doing that! SHHH NEVER MIND. Lots of studies have been done and you will get a one sentence summary of any of them that further Buckley's point. "One Danish study found that babies in nurseries were up to 5 times more likely to die of SIDS than co-sleeping babies." WHOA, I want to know more about that study! How many infants were observed over how long of a time, what were the conditions of the co-sleeping situations, what were the conditions of the nursery babies, when did this study happen, how was it received by the medical community, what does "up to" mean? Nope, on to the next study that still supports her argument.
Great, except vital details are ALWAYS left out of these decidedly un-verbose summaries. You'll learn a lot of medical terms great, albeit occasionally a little repetitive and verbose, making it feel a little more focused on impressing itself than it is on entertaining or educating you. It's academic in tone without being academic in ethic. I wouldn't call this book conversational. And Eventually You Get Tired And Say Ugh Fine I'll Be Vegan. The Highly Educated Guy With An Extreme Agenda Who Peppers His Speech With Jargon and Is Capable of Referencing Lots of Statistics To Make Himself Sound Right You Have This Vague Feeling Something Isn't Adding Up But Dude.
But the tone is the exact combination of two types of people I couldn't stand in college:ġ. Personally, I managed to both agree with everything written here and also be highly annoyed by it.īuckley is a longtime MD herself, which is a great opportunity to educate people on how seemingly emotional decisions have physical effects, and vice versa, and she does nearly do that. Lots of people LOVE this book, including literally all of my favorite childbirth educators, both personal (my own midwives, doula teachers, Bradley Method instructor, etc) and general (Ina May Gaskin wrote the intro, and many other books I enjoy reference and highly recommend it).
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