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They’re fed up with the unwanted C-sections, the endless tests, the dubious interventions, and the scary advice from overworked, malpractice-spooked doctors. And Boston women are shunning the area’s world-class hospitals to go to surprising lengths—and sometimes take big risks—to give birth on their own terms.
By Tina Cassidy, a former staff reporter and editor at the Boston Globe, is the author of Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born (Atlantic Monthly Press, $24). She has given birth once, by cesarean, to her son, George.
Originally published in Boston Magazine, December 2006.
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