A Child Is Born

About this book

Lennart Nilssons unique photographic story -- a universal introduction to the miracle of life. In 1965 Lennart Nilsson published images from inside the human uterus the first photographs of prenatal life. The book that was to follow A Child is Born stunned the world -- offering an unprecedented glimpse at the unseen world within our bodies and our own beginnings. Using high-definition ultrasound technique scanning electron and light microscopes and advanced fibre optics Lennart Nilsson documents the miracle of human reproduction: the egg travelling down the fallopian tube; the sperm racing to meet it; the moment of fertilization; the very first cell division; the tiny embryo attaching to the uterine wall; the growth of eyes ears fingers and toes; and finally the moment of delivery itself -- providing an astonishing glimpse of the first moments of life. In this the fully revised fifth edition A Child is Born is redefined for a new age. With a completely new accompanying text the images are rendered in astonishing detail utilising revolutionary new photographic technology with the photographs themselves the dominant driving force of the narrative.