We often say: "Little children are little troubles." But what if the child has not even been born yet, and the trouble is already greater than himself?Behind every child who survived an intrauterine operation, was born prematurely or with pathology, there is the choice and courage of parents and doctors. And also a chain of bold discoveries and desperate decisions that pushed medicine forward. At different stages of the development of perinatology, doctors faced skepticism and distrust of colleagues and patients. But today medicine helps those who have not yet taken their first breath. This book tells the story of the science of neonatal nursing and surgery on the unborn.Olivia Gordon, a medical journalist and mother of a child who was saved by cutting-edge medicine, tells how doctors learned to fight for the smallest defenseless patients. p>