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Contents

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Author’s Note

Prologue: One Birth

Part I: The Unexpected: Millions of Births

1. What Happened?

2. Treatments and Outcomes

3. Viability and the Zone of Parental Discretion

Part II: The Body: Incubation

4. The History of Incubation: Coney Island, Chicken Eggs, and Changelings

5. The Modern Incubator, or How to Build a Giraffe

6. The Incubators of the Future: Babies in Bags

Part III: The Breath: Treating Respiratory Distress

7. Dr. Mildred Stahlman and the Miniature Iron Lung

8. Dr. Maria Delivoria-Papadopoulos and the Rugged Machine

9. JFK’s Lost Baby and the Advent of Surfactant

Part IV: The Self: Protecting the Premature Brain

10. The Revolutionary Practice of Listening to Preemies

11. Follow-up Care: Preemie Development Beyond the NICU

Part V: The Threshold: End-of-Life Issues at Birth

12. What Should We Do for 22-Week Babies?

13. Knowing When to Stop

14. Choice, Decisions, and the Messiness of Real Life

Part VI: The Crisis: The Body Under Stress

15. Racism Causes Preterm Birth

16. What Prematurity Means in Mississippi

17. Group Prenatal Care and the Power of Community

Part VII: The Invisibles: Breaking the Silence

18. The Hidden Trauma of Prematurity

19. Grown Preemies Speak for Themselves

Epilogue

Notes

Index

Acknowledgments

About the Author

About the Publisher