I read it at one sitting. This site is designed to complement the book of the same name. Within' is the first book to explain the mechanisms of pregnancy to the general reader. It is firmly rooted in the belief that anyone can understand the biology of pregnancy if it is explained clearly.
Pregnancy is a uniquely intimate relationship between two people.
All of us luxuriate in this relationship once, and half of us are lucky enough to be able to do it all over again a second time, from the other side, as it were. Never again outside pregnancy can we be so truly intertwined with someone else, no matter how hard we try. In our impersonal, high-technology world, pregnancy remains the one visceral process in which we all take part. The miracle of pregnancy for that is what it is is one of the few mysteries that almost all of us have pondered. Pregnancy is a very democratic scientific challenge and it can inspire anyone.