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开 本: 32开纸 张: 胶版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9781400079469
In the winter of 2002, Jenny Minton delivered her sons, Sam
and Gus. She was thirty-one weeks pregnant, and her boys, conceived
through in vitro fertilization, were more than two months early.
Both boys were placed on immediate life support, and for sixty-four
days they hovered, critically ill, in the neonatal intensive care
unit of a New York City hospital. The Early Birds is a
record of their time there and the story of Minton’s harrowing,
triumphant quest to bring her sons home.
“An ambitious executive is unprepared for the difficulties,
and the transformation, she’ll experience when she tries to
conceive—and then keep her babies alive.” —Working Mother
“Minton’s moving memoir recalls the time as fraught with guilt,
anger, and ultimately hope that her tiny boys would survive.”
—Redbook
“The Early Birds is Jenny Minton’s intensely personal account of
the premature birth of her twin boys, delivered at only thrity-one
weeks at 3 1/2 pounds each. . . . Her story is filled with hope and
inspiration.” —Harper’s Bazaar
“Minton is a deft writer. . . . She also skillfully assembles
information on the causes of infertility and its treatments,
statistics about infant health and mortality, and facts about how
the American health care system compares to other countries’. Women
coping with infertility will find guidance here, as will parents of
preemies.” —The Washington Post
“After nearly thirty years of in-vitro fertilization, we may be
ready to accept what Minton already knows: that all births are
miracles, and that all children are created by the same scientific
principles, no matter whether they were conceived inside a human
body or in a Petri dish.” —The Hartford Courant
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