“Ah-ah… I’m giving birth…!” After many years of working in the ambulance service, Doctor Danilov did not think anything in life could still really surprise or frighten him. He didn’t think so until he got a job in an ordinary Moscow maternity hospital — and that is how our story began. All the horrifying or funny tales you may have heard about this place are indeed true. But that is only the tip of the iceberg. Shlyakhov knows what he is writing about. He was a doctor himself. Men, leave the room at once! The faint-hearted have no place here!