Reviews tagging 'Miscarriage'

Ask Me About My Uterus: A Quest to Make Doctors Believe in Women's Pain by Abby Norman

8 reviews

abbystapleton's review against another edition

challenging sad slow-paced

2.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, and Vomit

Moderate: Child abuse, Emotional abuse, and Miscarriage

Minor: Infertility, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

daniellemjoyce's review against another edition

emotional funny informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Eating disorder, Misogyny, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Injury/Injury detail

Moderate: Emotional abuse, Infertility, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Excrement, and Pregnancy

laureljeanreads's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

I always feel weird rating memoirs but I feel like this is such an important topic explored and done so with a really good mix of some medical research facts as well as personal experience that shines through. The fact that this is not just this authors story, but is the story of so many other people dealing with chronic pain, uterine issues and not being believed by medical professionals is both sad and enraging.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Child abuse, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Blood, Medical content, and Medical trauma

Minor: Infertility, Miscarriage, Transphobia, and Suicide attempt

sammantha's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

This book is phenomenally written and so much more than I ever could have imagined. I’ve never dog-eared so many pages in my life. Highly recommend, especially to doctors and nurses. “I had never wanted to be right; I had only wanted to be well.”

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Child abuse, Death, Domestic abuse, Eating disorder, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Miscarriage and Excrement

shewantsthediction's review against another edition

adventurous challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

I didn't expect this book to go so deep into abuse, but I'm really glad it did. Emotional/physical neglect are so hard to put a finger on, but the way she described it made me feel so much less alone in my own childhood. I almost can't believe there's someone out there who had to "grow up" even faster than I did, with her being emancipated so young. Her audio narration reminded me quite a bit of the Youtuber bestdressed. The only thing I didn't really like about this book is she tended to ramble on too long, especially towards the end of the book, and referred to having sex for the first time as "losing her virginity." It was just a strange choice of words since she seemed so feminist in other respects. I was also quite curious about her autistic brother, but he was only briefly mentioned.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Suicidal thoughts, Vomit, Medical content, and Medical trauma

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

 - Part memoir and part history of doctors dismissing "female problems," ASK ME ABOUT MY UTERUS is gripping and enraging. I'd wager that even if you don't have endometriosis in particular, you'll see your own experiences with the medical system reflected here (me. I did, it's me).
- Norman doesn't shy away from describing exactly what her pain - physical and emotional - feels like. This book is a tough read but I think many will find it cathartic to be seen on the page.
- Norman is careful to point out that not only women deal with uterine pain and illness, and also that not all women have uteruses, and the extra layer of fear and frustration this can add to trying to get diagnosis and treatment. She's also up front about how being straight, white, and cisgender framed her whole situation and afforded her more privilege throughout this process than others (and the flip side of that, of how being a traditionally feminine woman led to instances of dismissal).
- It's in the content warnings listed below, but I want to point it out here as well since it's not obvious from the summary - major content warnings for child neglect, eating disorders and suicide particularly in the chapters discussing Norman's childhood. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Body shaming, Child abuse, Child death, Chronic illness, Cursing, Death, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gore, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Blood, Vomit, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, and Pregnancy

rosalind's review

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Vomit, and Medical content

Moderate: Child abuse and Grief

hollandvk's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Chronic illness, Eating disorder, Sexism, Blood, Medical content, and Suicide attempt

Moderate: Cancer, Child abuse, Emotional abuse, Infertility, Mental illness, Miscarriage, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Vomit