Amanda Fields & Rachel Moritz 
My Caesarean: Twenty-One Mothers on the C-Section Experience and After 

Twenty-one vivid, moving essays on caesarean birth

“No one talks about C-sections as surgery, ” writes Soo Jin Pate. “They talk about it as if it’s just another way—albeit more
convenient way—of giving birth.” The twenty-one essays in
My Caesarean add back to the conversation the missing voices of a vast, invisible sisterhood.



Robin Schoenthaler reflects: “A C-section for us meant life.” And yet, women who don’t give birth vaginally—by choice or necessity—often feel stigmatized. “My son’s birth was not a test I needed to pass, ” writes Sara Bates. “As if growing a human inside another human for nine months then caring for it the rest of its life isn’t enough, ” adds Mary Pan, herself a physician.



Alongside their personal stories, the writers—decorated novelists, poets, and essayists—address the history of the C-section as well as its risks, social inequities, impact on the body, and psychological aftermath.
My Caesarean is a heartfelt meditation, offering much-needed comfort through shared experience.



Contributors include: Catherine Newman, Judy Batalion, Nicole Cooley, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Lisa Solod, Misty Urban, Jacinda Townsend, Mary Pan, Robin Schoenthaler, Elizabeth Noll, Jen Fitzgerald, Tyrese Coleman, Soo Jin Pate, Daniela Montoya-Barthelemy, Cameron Dezen Hammon, La Toya Jordan, Sara Bates, Susan Hoffmann, and Alicia Jo Rabins.