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Past Due did not disappoint.

Past Due did not disappoint. The writing was first-rate, although the subject matter could be - and often was - absolutely heartrending. Finger's pipe dream of natural childbirth at home with a midwife attending went up in scary smoke, ending in a complicated and emergency hospital Caesarian delivery. Anne Finger has much to say in this slight volume, and not just about the difficulties of a disabled woman giving birth, but about our society's attitudes toward the disabled, the helpless and the disenfranchised. This is important stuff, a book which should probably be read by all of those pro-choice and pro-life adherents - both camps.

The story of her pregnancy and birth was riveting and held my interest, keeping me turning pages even though I had read the story before. It is sad that her extreme protectiveness about the baby, refusing to eat many types of foods and avoiding fetal monitors until the late stages of her pregnancy, came to not prevent the problems she and her baby had. Her choice for a home birth was disastrous and I was surprised she doesn't hold anything against the people who took care of he. .Jan 01, 2013 Danielle rated it really liked it.

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The author, handicapped by childhood polio, describes the birth of her firsthild and current issues for feminists and the disabled. The author who had polio details he pregnancy and all the politics sourrounding it. It is an eye opener about what it must be like to be pregnant with a disability. A very thought-provoking book. com User, April 24, 2000. This was one of these books that made me stay up way too late because I couldn't put it down. The author tells the story of the birth of her child. A story that should be simple enough but, like most things in life that touch us deeply, it isn't.

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Anne Finger will be reading from an early memoir, Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth which was published in the . A German translation, Lebenswert, was published by Fischer Verlag in 1992. Anne Finger liest aus einem autobiographischen Text: Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth, der in deutscher Übersetzung von Christine Frick-Gehrke unter dem Titel Lebenswert – eine behinderte Frau bekommt ein Kind 1992 bei S. Fischer erschienen ist. Anne Finger is a writer of both fiction and non-fiction

This is not the story of you in labor, walking through the hospital. She stuck her index and middle fingers up there and rammed them around every which way, like she was trying to tear a hole in me.

Meaghan O’Connell had a perfect pregnancy and the perfect birth plan-and then she went into labor. This story was funded by Longreads Members. This is not the story of you in labor, walking through the hospital. I trusted, with some hesitation, that this was proper procedure, but it shouldn’t have been. I wanted to show up with painted signs and picket the way this woman had handled my vagina.

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Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth. The article then goes on to discuss the author's experiences during pregnancy and her early experiences as a mother

Past Due: A Story of Disability, Pregnancy and Birth. Suicide's Husband is Indicted: Diary Records Pain of 2 Lives. The article then goes on to discuss the author's experiences during pregnancy and her early experiences as a mother. She concludes by comparing her experiences as a mother with other women who do not have a disability.