Drawing on medical, scientific, cultural, anthropological, psychological, philosophical, historical and sociological sources as well as her long experience as a working midwife, the author has assembled a collection of facts guaranteed to inform, entertain and inspire anyone thinking of getting pregnant, already pregnant or working with pregnant women. Open any page and you will find an ususual and thought-provoking aspect of pregnancy or read it cover to cover and to piece together its many small parcels of information into an altogether new and informative picture of the process.