Birth day : a pediatrician explores the science, the history, and the wonder of childbirth / Mark Sloan.

New York : Ballantine Books, [2009], ©2009.

xii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

On being born. Twenty babies : an unexpectedly quick introduction to vaginal birth ; The first five minutes ; An alternate route : Cesarean birth -- Pain and politics. B.E. (before epidurals) ; Nowadays : an "epidural monoculture"? -- Significant others. Daddies ; The gang's all here : a history of birth attendance -- Looking at babies. Inside looking out : the five senses at birth ; "The newborn worth rearing" : infant resuscitation, from Aristotle to Apgar ; Infant origami : a guided tour of the newborn body.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [339]-355) and index.