At two in the morning, I stumbled upon a secret in the sink: that chubby little baby was clutching his own umbilical cord, squeezing it as if trying to kill himself.
My name is Jiang Xiao, and I'm a doctor rotating through obstetrics and gynecology. There are four babies in our ward who “have a room to themselves”: one clutching his umbilical cord, one with a knot in it, and one who weighs just 620 grams at 24 weeks...
Later, when “Two Taels,” born at 22 weeks and weighing 460 grams, was brought in, the whole hospital convened an ethics committee: save the baby, or let go?
From struggling to conceive and carrying a pregnancy to term, to giving birth and saying a proper goodbye: adapted from real cases, every story holds medical knowledge that could save a life.
Some battles have to be fought before you're even born. This book will tell you all about them.
