First Breath
First Breath This is a story about the cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies. It's about doctors, mothers, fathers, and babies as together they fight for the first breath. It's…
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First Breath
This is a story about the cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies. It's about doctors, mothers, fathers, and babies as together they fight for the first breath. It's about the love and fear a parent feels for a child they haven't yet met.
Olivia Gordon explores the female experience of medicine through her own personal story and sensitive, intimate case histories of other mothers' high-risk births. The First Breath is the first popular science book about the pioneering fetal and neonatal medicine bringing a new generation into the world--a generation of babies without precedent, who would not have lived if they had been born only a few decades ago. She details the relationship mothers develop with doctors who hold not only life and death in their hands, but also the very possibility of birth.
From the dawn of fetal medicine to neonatal surgery and the