With this book, you will prepare for a cesarean delivery. Step by step, practically, straight from life and experience.

The day the baby is born is one of the most important events in a woman's life - regardless of whether she gives birth naturally, via caesarean section, or becomes an adoptive mother.

We give you a book that is immersed in life and practice. A book - a guide that disenchants, brings closer and softens childbirth through caesarean section and VBAC.

The authors - two experienced midwives - know what women in labor ask most often, they know what they need, they know how to lower their anxiety levels, increase self-confidence and help create safe and comfortable conditions for accepting a new life.

• why and when is cesarean section performed,
• what to prepare for surgery and childbirth,
• how to prepare yourself,
• how to talk to medical staff and what support to expect,
• step by step how childbirth through CC proceeds,
• what happens to the body after childbirth,
• how to deal with emotions,
• how CC affects the baby and mother,
• how to feed a baby after CC,
• what is VBAC, i.e. natural delivery after cesarean section.

In Poland, over 150,000 women give birth by elective or emergency cesarean section each year. This book is created for them - its purpose is to support and help those in labor. Embedded in medical knowledge and practice, however, written in simple, understandable and structured language.