Giving birth has always been a special event, and at all times there have been people who helped a child be born. The book by Diana Yumakaeva, an obstetrician-gynecologist and author of a blog on the history of medicine, will tell you how obstetrics originated and developed. On its pages you will find great discoveries, acquaintance with doctors of the past, incredible stories related to pregnancy, childbirth and motherhood, as well as very strange superstitions that existed in ancient times. You will learn when anesthesia and antiseptics were first used during childbirth, how ancient Egyptian women preferred to give birth, why wet nurses were invited to aristocratic families, and whose sad story about motherhood formed the basis of one of Agatha Christie’s novels.