Advises women about the experience of giving birth away from the hospital environment. This book includes photographed sequences of a number of births as well as information for the parents as they begin the transition to parenthood. The book features quotations, photographs of births outside hospital and first-hand accounts of women's personal experiences. The author is a social anthropologist who has studied women's experiences of birth in many different countries. Her previous books include The Experience of Childbirth, Pregnancy and Childbirth, Pregnancy Day-by-Day and Being Born.