读过《Kid Gloves》 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
从备孕到生产，Lucy 做了很周全的准备了，但还是到鬼门关前走了一遭，而事后她还能云淡风轻地画图像小说回忆，实在佩服她的勇气。此书里 Lucy 做的功课不单止于科学方面，还包括历史人文，最长知识的是女权方面有关争取生育自主权的介绍，譬如说犹太教基督教传统认为因为夏娃的原罪，所以女性生育所受的苦是理所当然的，乃至 1591 年有位待产女性因为生产中要求止疼药而被捆上火刑柱烧死；到了现代也不可乐观，美国妇幼保健经费里只有 6% 用于母亲，嗯，还有，美国的产妇死亡率是发达国家里最高的，2000 年之后还在逐年攀升，另外黑人产妇的死亡率是白人产妇的两到六倍。其中比较泄气的是读到 Lucy 爸爸（已和妈妈离异）在 Lucy 临产时来访，看到 Lucy 无法控制自身情绪的情况，待了两天就走了，而妈妈一直陪到最后。
Book
Kid Gloves Google Books Douban
author:
Lucy Knisley
publishing house:
First Second Books
2019
- 2
A New York Times bestseller
If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you can do anything.
Except get pregnant.
Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she’d ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience during labor and delivery.
This moving, hilarious, and surprisingly informative memoir, Kid Gloves, not only follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Whether you’ve got kids, want them, or want nothing to do with them, there’s something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart.
If you work hard enough, if you want it enough, if you’re smart and talented and “good enough,” you can do anything.
Except get pregnant.
Her whole life, Lucy Knisley wanted to be a mother. But when it was finally the perfect time, conceiving turned out to be harder than anything she’d ever attempted. Fertility problems were followed by miscarriages, and her eventual successful pregnancy plagued by health issues, up to a dramatic, near-death experience during labor and delivery.
This moving, hilarious, and surprisingly informative memoir, Kid Gloves, not only follows Lucy’s personal transition into motherhood but also illustrates the history and science of reproductive health from all angles, including curious facts and inspiring (and notorious) figures in medicine and midwifery. Whether you’ve got kids, want them, or want nothing to do with them, there’s something in this graphic memoir to open your mind and heart.