Modern Pregnancy

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. Olivia Gordon explores the female experience of medicine through her own personal story and sensitive, intimate case histories of other mothers’ high-risk births. 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.

Bei der aller ersten Sekunde des eigenen Kindes dabei sein – das ist heute für die überwiegende Mehrheit der Väter eine Selbstverständlichkeit. Trotz des Vaterglücks kommen schnell ungeklärte Fragen auf, die Sorgen bereiten!

The Mama Sutra is an essential parenting handbook to more than 40 methods to calm fussiness, encourage bowel movements, and (the holy grail) help everyone get back to sleep. Meet the Lucky Rabbit, the Drunk Monk, the Spraying Mantis, and other time-tested and scientifically proven ways to help your baby feel better, developed with help from experts in the ancient art of holistic healing.