"Brilliant, moving, challenging and educational. The section describing what happens week-by-week is fantastic. The photos are lovely. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in childbirth as I feel it gives more than the average cliched information that most childbirth books offer."
A former Head of Midwifery
"It's difficult to write a book about birth drawing on research, analysing the effects and side-effects of interventions and also acknowledging that in the right setting and with loving, sensitive and unobtrusive support birth is a psycho-sexual process which can bring ecstasy. Sylvie has achieved this splendidly."
Sheila Kitzinger, author and anthropologist
"Usually, I recommend that pregnant women should not read too many books. But this book is an exception. It's a book written by a mother with experience of undisturbed birth, who knows what birth can be like. And that's different. It's unusual."
Michel Odent, midwife, surgeon, lecturer, researcher
"This is a wonderful book for a pregnant woman (and her partner and family) to dip into. Written in a deliberately user-friendly style, it’s a bit like a really juicy magazine. It’s pitched just right for pregnancy reading. There is nothing to frighten a pregnant woman or cause her undue anxiety! This is a very important book for our times, when we sure have got this whole process of birth wrong. I heartily congratulate Sylvie for her passion and all the work that went into compiling and writing this book."