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I delivered twenty newborns in the summertime of 1977. I had been hardly greater than a baby myself, just changed twenty-four and starting my third calendar year of medical school.”—from Delivery Day

So started out Draw Sloan’s three-decades-long exploration of the miracles and oddities of individual childbirth. Pediatrician, man, and father, the author has attended practically three thousand births since that long-ago summertime, encountering from routine deliveries to tense labor-room dramas. In Delivery Day, Sloan draws on his personal and professional experience to weave the strands of memoir, history, research, and culture into a fascinating—and often funny—tapestry of the fundamental human passing.

Delivery Day needs the reader on the remarkable voyage, from the dawn of history to the tranquil efficiency of today's operating room; from Aristotle and Julius Caesar to a trailblazing, cross-dressing English army doctor; from a recent past filled up with the horrors of childbirth absent wrong to a present-day day, in which every pregnancy is likely to end happily. A few of Delivery Day’s many matters include

• The development of individual childbirth—or, why do gorillas own it so easy?
• The first 5 minutes of life—scuba divers, astronauts, and the amazing adaptations that transform a fetus into an air-breathing, out-in-the-world baby
• Cesarean section—a glance at its origins, its future, and how it had become the most regularly performed procedure in American nursing homes
• Pain and politics—the age-old quest for pain-free childbirth, starring Adam and Eve, Queen Victoria, a nineteenth-century medical brawl, and the rise of today’s “epidural monoculture”
• Daddies—raging paternal human hormones, hidden anxieties, and the emotional development of men (like the author, his daddy, and grandfather) as they tackle fatherhood
• The five senses at beginning—does indeed light get into the womb? how noisy is it inside? what is a newborn baby searching for with those first troubled glances?
• A tour of the newborn body—springy skulls, hairy ears, innies and outies, the advantages (and down sides) of looking like your daddy, and why america is one of the world’s most circumcised countries

Delightfully instructive and interesting, Delivery Day offers a fresh, sometimes irreverent undertake a universally familiar subject matter. Warm, reassuring, and packed with stories from the creator’s work and life, this original booklet is one pediatrician’s yoga on the hiding-in-plain-sight marvels of individual birth.

Category: Pregnancy & Childbirth

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Publisher	Oasis Audio
Language	English
ISBN
DATE	2009-03
Author	Mark Sloan

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