4.6
Biografier
‘Fascinating and moving.' - Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt
A BBC Radio 4 A Good Read choice
This is a story about the cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies.
It's about the love and fear a parent feels for a child they haven’t yet met.
It's about doctors, mothers, fathers and babies as together they fight for the first breath.
The First Breath is a book about motherhood and medicine.
Olivia Gordon decided to find out how, exactly, modern science saved her son’s life. Crossing medical memoir with popular science, The First Breath is an investigation into the pioneering fetal and neonatal care bringing a new generation into the world, who would not have lived if they had been born only a few decades ago.
The First Breath explores the female experience of medicine and 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 exploding field of perinatal genetics, The First Breath tells of fear, bravery and love. Olivia Gordon takes the reader behind the closed doors of the fetal and neonatal intensive care units, resuscitation rooms and operating theatres at some of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, unveiling the untold story of how doctors save the sickest babies.
© 2019 Bluebird (Ljudbok): 9781509871193
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 13 juni 2019
4.6
Biografier
‘Fascinating and moving.' - Adam Kay, author of This is Going to Hurt
A BBC Radio 4 A Good Read choice
This is a story about the cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies.
It's about the love and fear a parent feels for a child they haven’t yet met.
It's about doctors, mothers, fathers and babies as together they fight for the first breath.
The First Breath is a book about motherhood and medicine.
Olivia Gordon decided to find out how, exactly, modern science saved her son’s life. Crossing medical memoir with popular science, The First Breath is an investigation into the pioneering fetal and neonatal care bringing a new generation into the world, who would not have lived if they had been born only a few decades ago.
The First Breath explores the female experience of medicine and 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 exploding field of perinatal genetics, The First Breath tells of fear, bravery and love. Olivia Gordon takes the reader behind the closed doors of the fetal and neonatal intensive care units, resuscitation rooms and operating theatres at some of the world’s leading children’s hospitals, unveiling the untold story of how doctors save the sickest babies.
© 2019 Bluebird (Ljudbok): 9781509871193
Utgivningsdatum
Ljudbok: 13 juni 2019
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Katerina
8 dec. 2022
Mycket välskriven och intressant med de historiska tillbakablickarna. Man får lära sig mycket om medicinsk historia. Som neomamma känner man igen sig mycket i denna bok på ett hjärtvärmande sätt . Känner mig mindre ensam i min erfarenhet av sjukt barn och neonatalvård efter att ha läst denna bok
Pearl
7 jan. 2024
Great book. Gordon beautifully writes of families experiences with recent advances in prenatal and neoenatal care and effortlessly weaves in science and history of scientific discoveries as well as doctors personal views. For anyone slightly interested in the field whether layman, parent, parent to be or someone in the medical field.I personally would have wanted to avoid it when I was pregnant but it’s so well written that it wouldn’t necessarily make you worry.Easy to listen to and the reader has a good voice.
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