This is the history-making book that asks us, for the first time, to focus our attention on the infant just born - to examine and radically change what is being done in hospitals all over the world to the new human being wha has just emerged, after hours of unavoidable tumult and pain, from the once-peaceful womb.

This is the book that shows us, for the first time, how we can achieve for our children a birth without violence - with all its momentous implications for the quality of human life, not only on the first day but through all the days thereafter.