"In Birth Day, Dr. Mark Sloan delivers a rare and compelling blend of humor, compassion, insight, and scholarship- all swaddled in a remarkably engaging literary style.  As illiuminating as it is fun, this book shines a gentle light into all the nooks and crannies of what must be the most universally familiar of all great mysteries: the act of being born.  I heartily recommend the book to everyone who has ever played a role in that act, birthers and brithees alike! You'll learn a lot- I did- and it won't hurt a bit."

每每David L. Katz, MD, MPH, FACPM, FACP

Director, Prevention Research Center, Yale University School of Medicine

※Over three thousand births later, Dr. Mark Sloan has lived to tell 〞 and tell beautifully.  At once decoding the mystery of childbirth while preserving its wonder, Birth Day is saturated with scholarship, humor, and heart.§
每每Linda Phillips, author of Sweet Remedy

 

※No one has described the intricate timing and sequence of a baby＊s miracle transition from inside its mother to breathing on its own more clearly or beautifully than Dr. Mark Sloan, who has focused on the baby during thousands of births and understands what needs to happen, and what can go wrong.  Sloan covers the various approaches to pain-management during labor and their effects on both mother and child, and he supports adding nitrous oxide〞safe and widely used for labor in so many other countries〞to the very limited alternatives now available to women in America.§

每每Judith P. Rooks, CNM, MPH, author of Midwifery & Childbirth in America

※I have given birth twice, but  until this book never grasped the true wonder of what happens to mother and child during childbirth. An amazing, tender, funny book about our bigheaded species.§

每每Adair Lara, author of Hold Me Close, Let me Go

 

※Birth Day is a wonderful book.  Dr. Sloan has accomplished the impossible, combining the history, biology, sociology and medicine of childbirth into an informative, yet amusing, story.  Expectant parents will find this book useful and reassuring. So will physicians.  Personal stories of medical school, resident training  and practice that Dr. Sloan incorporated into this narrative brought back memories and elicited many smiles.  Birth Day is a 'must' for new parents and for professionals.§

--Donald Caton, M.D.

Emeritus Professor of Anesthesia, University of Florida, and author of What a Blessing She Had Chloroform

 

※In Birth Day, Sloan skillfully blends personal anecdote, hard science, and bizarre historical detail to deliver a fertile and amusing account of the womb-to-world journey that every one of us has made.  Without a doubt, this book will educate, entertain, and prompt you to call your mother in gratitude.§

每每Katrina Firlik, MD, author of Another Day in the Frontal Lobe: A Brain Surgeon Exposes Life on the Inside