Amy Tuteur on Birth, Natural Parenting, and Push Back

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🗓️ 18 March 2019

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Obstetrician gynecologist Amy Tuteur and author of Push Back, talks about the book with EconTalk host Russ Roberts. Tuteur argues that natural parenting--the encouragement to women to give birth without epidurals or caesarians and to breastfeed--is bad for women's health and has little or no benefit for their children.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Econ Talk, part of the Library of Economics and Liberty.
0:08.0	I'm your host, Russ Roberts of Stanford University's Hoover Institution.
0:12.6	Our website is econtalk.org where you can subscribe, comment on this podcast, and find
0:17.6	links and other information related to today's conversation.
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0:24.8	back to 2006.
0:27.0	Our email address is mailadycontalk.org.
0:29.0	We'd love to hear from you.
0:31.0	Today's February 20th, 2019, and my guest is obstetrician gynecologist author and blogger,
0:39.6	Amy Tutur.
0:41.8	Her blog is the skeptical OB and her book, which is the subject of this conversation, is pushback,
0:48.7	guilt in the age of natural parenting.
0:51.2	Amy, welcome to Econ Talk.
0:53.4	Thank you so much for having me.
0:55.5	So tell us about your background as an observer of all these issues related to child
1:02.0	birth and parenting.
1:04.1	So I'm an obstetrician gynecologist, as you mentioned.
1:07.6	I'm also the mother of four children, now all adults.
1:11.6	So I add my children back in the 80s and 90s, but even then the pressure on women to have
1:18.3	a natural childbirth, to breastfeed, and to parents in certain ways was getting started.
1:25.4	Now, it is much worse, and I really feel very badly for a lot of young women who are struggling
1:32.9	with the pressure, mostly because it's unnecessary.
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