POP

This new, short, fun-to-read, childbirth handbook – written by moms, for moms – provides fantastic advice and fun tricks that actually work. As one mom put it: "How come no one wrote this before?"

Author Pamela Peery started POP after her own birthing experience. After taking a labor and delivery class and reading multiple pregnancy books, she thought she was ready. But then she went into early labor. Frantic readings of the early labor pages of her pregnancy books after being sent home from the hospital for false labor twice made her wonder if she was the only woman ever to have gone through this.

This led Pamela to ask, “Where was my experience in these books? Why didn’t anyone tell me this could happen in normal labor?” Trillions of women have had babies. Where is this repository of childbirth knowledge? Where is their wisdom?”

Pamela then created a website requesting women’s labor, delivery and C-section stories. It turns out she wasn’t the only one who didn’t experience a “textbook labor.” POP is the collection of the advice and funny stories that resulted from her website, and she hopes it will lead expecting mothers to be more prepared than she was.