Like a Mother

Kind of a memoir crossed with something like Expecting Better (which Goodreads won't let me link to, but everyone who may be pregnant someday should absolutely read) crossed with a Mary Roach book. The writing is engaging and fun; I definitely learned a lot that I didn't know before, even after having been pregnant. Some of this is just fun trivia, like facts about the placenta and the composition of breast milk, but I'm actually kind of upset that I got through an entire pregnancy and almost a year of motherhood without ever being taught about the anatomy of the pelvic floor. A recurring theme of the book is the shocking lack of attention or research focused on pregnancy and birth - there's still so much that we don't know about these things, because no one has ever cared enough to fund the research into it. I really enjoyed this, especially the chapter about microchimerism.