America’s Hottest Birth Book Comes With A Woke Surprise

Jen Hamilton’s “Birth Vibes: Stories and Strategies for an Empowered Birth” shot to number one on the New York Times and USA Today bestseller lists this year, riding the wave of the labor-and-delivery nurse’s millions of social media followers. The book makes a simple pitch to expectant parents: abandon the strict birth plan in favor of a looser, overall “birth vibe.”

I first gave birth 12 years ago and went into the hospital with exactly one item on my birth plan: Do not have a C-section. That plan failed.