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020			_a9781509871179 _q(hardback)
020			_a9781509871179 _q(hardback)
020			_a9781509871186 _q(trade paperback)
020			_a1509871187 _q(trade paperback)
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050	0	0	_aRG 524 _b.G67 2019
100	1		_aGordon, Olivia, _eauthor.
245	1	4	_aThe first breath : _bhow modern medicine saves the most fragile lives / _cOlivia Gordon.
250			_a[1]st ed.:
260			_aLondon, _bBluebird books for life (Macmillan) _cc2019.
300			_axi; 353p.: _c23 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references.
520			_aWhat happens when pregnancy and the first few weeks of a baby's life don't go as planned? How have advances in modern medicine and perinatal genetics redefined our perceptions of what is possible?The First Breath by Olivia Gordon is a powerful medical memoir about the extraordinary fetal and neonatal medicine bringing today's babies into the world. Unveiling the intense patient-doctor relationship at work with every birth, this book reflects on the cutting-edge medicine that has saved a generation of babies, the combination of love and fear a parent feels for a child they haven't yet met and what can happen before a baby's first breath. Olivia Gordon was twenty-nine weeks pregnant when a scan found that her baby was critically ill. Thanks to a risky operation in utero and five months in neonatal care, her son survived. The First Breath is the first popular science book to tell the story of the fast developing fields of fetal and neonatal medicine. It explores motherhood and the female experience of medicine through Olivia's personal story and sensitive, intimate case histories of other mothers' high risk births.The First Breath asks what it means to become the mother of a child who would not have survived birth only a generation ago, showing how doctors and nurses save the most vulnerable lives and how medicine has developed to make it possible for these lives to even begin.
650		0	_aObstetrics. _9150
650		0	_aNeonatology.
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