HW 38

How is the book organized?
So far its a narrative, shes sharing her experience with birth and the things she knows. It's as if shes talking to the reader.

The major question the book tries to answer?
Doesn't seem like there's a main question yet. She just seems curious about birth and is sharing what she learned.

 The major insight the book tries to communicate in the first 100 pages
How amazing the female human body is, also how sheltered pregnancy is. She compares the birth techniques and social norms of the stone ages to now. I do agree that the pregnancy is sheltered there's always someone there to help , even strangers lend a helping hand. Woman use to have birth completely natural and sometimes all alone. According to the book some tribes in Africa dont allow anyone to be around while the woman is giving birth.

5 interesting aspects of pregnancy and birth that you (and the author) agree deserve public attention
- Pressure of using medications
- Natural births
- Lucy and her pelvis and the history on the female development

What support does the author build for her/his arguments, how reliable do you find the evidence, how deftly does the author use the evidence without stalling the progress of the book?

She doesn't cite her sources so I dont know where shes getting her evidence from but so far its been based on facts. Its more of an information session then a book about the insights on birth. I wish she included interviews with pregnant women and they're experiences.