Grady Hendrix

Right? Yeah, I mean, you know, and also I need to say, you know, I am a childless middle-aged man. I have no place writing a book in which every character is a pregnant teenage girl. And so I had about 12 moms who really shared their birth stories. I mean, they let me ask stupid questions.

Right? Yeah, I mean, you know, and also I need to say, you know, I am a childless middle-aged man. I have no place writing a book in which every character is a pregnant teenage girl. And so I had about 12 moms who really shared their birth stories. I mean, they let me ask stupid questions.

I had about four OBs and laborists who worked with me, both men and women, who I would just keep coming back to. Okay, what's it? And, you know, they really guided me through this. And so a lot of the time writing this book was trying to get that part of it right.

I had about four OBs and laborists who worked with me, both men and women, who I would just keep coming back to. Okay, what's it? And, you know, they really guided me through this. And so a lot of the time writing this book was trying to get that part of it right.

I had about four OBs and laborists who worked with me, both men and women, who I would just keep coming back to. Okay, what's it? And, you know, they really guided me through this. And so a lot of the time writing this book was trying to get that part of it right.

But isn't birth not for the squeamish?

But isn't birth not for the squeamish?

But isn't birth not for the squeamish?

Oh, sure. I mean, listen, giving birth in 1970, my hat is off to any woman who did that because they should get a medal of honor. You know, I had OBs telling me stories about doctors who would induce labor if their patient came in on Friday because they didn't want to mess up their weekend waiting around for her to give birth.

Oh, sure. I mean, listen, giving birth in 1970, my hat is off to any woman who did that because they should get a medal of honor. You know, I had OBs telling me stories about doctors who would induce labor if their patient came in on Friday because they didn't want to mess up their weekend waiting around for her to give birth.

Oh, sure. I mean, listen, giving birth in 1970, my hat is off to any woman who did that because they should get a medal of honor. You know, I had OBs telling me stories about doctors who would induce labor if their patient came in on Friday because they didn't want to mess up their weekend waiting around for her to give birth.

You know, women were regularly tied down at that point when they gave birth. Girls like this who gave birth, as one OB pointed out to me, would probably just be knocked out because the doctor really didn't want to mess around with them too much and have to, quote unquote, deal with them.

You know, women were regularly tied down at that point when they gave birth. Girls like this who gave birth, as one OB pointed out to me, would probably just be knocked out because the doctor really didn't want to mess around with them too much and have to, quote unquote, deal with them.

You know, women were regularly tied down at that point when they gave birth. Girls like this who gave birth, as one OB pointed out to me, would probably just be knocked out because the doctor really didn't want to mess around with them too much and have to, quote unquote, deal with them.

So even reading things like the Williams Obstetrics Manual, Gutmacher's Family Planning, which was sort of the go-tos at the time, the attitude towards things like morning sickness, That's all in a woman's mind. That's just a made-up problem because a woman is uncomfortable with giving birth, and so she's nauseated by it.

So even reading things like the Williams Obstetrics Manual, Gutmacher's Family Planning, which was sort of the go-tos at the time, the attitude towards things like morning sickness, That's all in a woman's mind. That's just a made-up problem because a woman is uncomfortable with giving birth, and so she's nauseated by it.

So even reading things like the Williams Obstetrics Manual, Gutmacher's Family Planning, which was sort of the go-tos at the time, the attitude towards things like morning sickness, That's all in a woman's mind. That's just a made-up problem because a woman is uncomfortable with giving birth, and so she's nauseated by it.

And if she gets comfortable with the idea of her pregnancy, it'll just go away. I mean, it really was eye-opening in all the worst ways. But one doctor said something to me that really informed how I wanted to approach the birth scenes in this.

And if she gets comfortable with the idea of her pregnancy, it'll just go away. I mean, it really was eye-opening in all the worst ways. But one doctor said something to me that really informed how I wanted to approach the birth scenes in this.

And if she gets comfortable with the idea of her pregnancy, it'll just go away. I mean, it really was eye-opening in all the worst ways. But one doctor said something to me that really informed how I wanted to approach the birth scenes in this.