This book was comforting, fortifying, and thought-provoking. It's a holistic guide to pregnancy, labor, birth, and new parenthood. It's both evidence based AND rooted in lived experience. This approach really speaks to me and overall, this book is the most comprehensive, nonjudgmental pregnancy/birth resource I've yet encountered. 

I appreciate the non-gendered language, the inclusion of illustrations of nonwhite babies and birthing people, and the consistent calling out of Western (ie white) culture and it's reductionist manner of operating. And this book doesn't favor any one type of birth over another. It treats pain medication, midwives, and cesarean births with equal   respect and validity. Highly recommend, especially for queer parents!