A Premature Baby's Journey: How Modern Medicine Saves Babies Born Too Early

We often say: “Little kids—little troubles.” But what if the child isn’t even born yet, and the trouble is already bigger than he is?

Behind every child who survived an operation in the womb, was born prematurely, or was born with a pathology, lie the choice and courage of parents and doctors. There’s also a chain of daring discoveries and desperate decisions that pushed medicine forward. At different stages of perinatology’s development, doctors encountered skepticism and distrust from colleagues and patients. But today medicine helps those who haven’t taken their first breath yet. In this book is the story of the science of caring for newborns and surgeries performed on unborn children.

Olivia Gordon, a medical journalist and mother of a child saved by ultra-modern medicine, tells how doctors learned to fight for the tiniest, most defenseless patients.