Where Do Children Come From? A Brief Guide for Transitioning from a Childfree Lifestyle to the Quiet Joys of Family Life

Newborn kittens instinctively know how to crawl, newborn orcas can swim, and newborn elephants can walk. In contrast, a human child is born helpless and requires a tremendous amount of resources in their first year of life.
Raising a healthy and happy child — while maintaining a career, well-being, and sanity — is a colossal task despite advances in medicine and improvements in living standards. Consequently, many people decide against having children because it is very challenging, and there are already nearly eight billion of us.
Science journalist, science promoter, and young mother Asya Kazantseva would have been very surprised if someone had told her five years ago that she would want to have a child so early in life. This book, her fourth, is particularly special: the author discusses recent research in the fields of embryology, neonatology, and IVF, as well as the real and mythical risks for mother and fetus, and the potential and limitations of contemporary medicine.
Moscow: CORPUS, 2023.