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‘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

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      Publisher: Pan Macmillan
      Publication Date: 1/13/2019
      ISBN13: 9781509871179, 978-1509871179
      ISBN10: 1509871179

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ‘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

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