A biologist offers a personal, introspective look at motherhood in this month-by-month recounting of her pregnancy, interspersed with scientific insights on the process.
A biologist offers a personal, introspective look at motherhood in this month-by-month recounting of her pregnancy, interspersed with valuable scientific insights on the process. 35,000 first printing.
The author of Living Downstream: An Ecologist Looks at Cancer and the Environment (1997) interweaves musings on her first pregnancy with information on new scientific discoveries and environmental threats to child development. Steingraber (Cornell U.) includes a list of further resources. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
A brilliant writer, first-time mother, and respected biologist, Sandra Steingraber tells the month-by-month story of her own pregnancy, weaving in the new knowledge of embryology, the intricate development of organs, the emerging architecture of the brain, and the transformation of the mother's body to nourish and protect the new life. At the same time, she shows all the hazards that we are now allowing to threaten each precious stage of development, including the breast-feeding relationship between mothers and their newborns. In the eyes of an ecologist, the mother's body is the first environment, the mediator between the toxins in our food, water, and air and her unborn child.Never before has the metamorphosis of a few cells into a baby seemed so astonishingly vivid, and never before has the threat of environmental pollution to conception, pregnancy, and even to the safety of breast milk been revealed with such clarity and urgency. In Having Faith, poetry and science combine in a passionate call to action.A Merloyd Lawrence Book
Both a celebration and a call to arms, this powerful book is the story of one human birth and the frightening ways we are now putting this miraculous process at risk
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