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For a discussion on the topic of pregnancy and motherhood, I recommend two readings quite simple, but complete, the first more scientific side, the second on the psychological.

• Carlo Flamigni, "Having a baby. How life begins: from conception to birth," Essays Oscar Mondadori, 711 pp., € 10.40

How is the miracle of conception? What relationship is established between the mother and baby during pregnancy? The unborn child to life as part of the outside world? What are the physical problems faced by the woman's body and what precautions you can follow? Finally, how the mother has to prepare for the pain of labor and childbirth? In these pages, Carlo Flamigni, an Italian expert of fertility problems, explains the fundamental aspects of male and female reproductive, describing the daily nine months of pregnancy and helping us to understand the motivations behind the choice of "being a parent ".

Carlo Flamigni, director of the Institute of Gynecology and Obstetrics, University of Bologna, a member of the National Bioethics Committee, conducts research in the pathophysiology of reproduction. Published: The Book of procreation (Oscar Mondadori, 1998), an essay on assisted reproduction, along with Marina Mengarelli within Will a son of Sylvia Finzi Vegetti (Oscar Mondadori 1999) and the novel Egg Yellow (Mondadori 2002).

• Daniel N. Stern, Nadia Bruschweiler Stern, "Birth of a mother. As the experience of motherhood changes a woman," Wise Oscar Mondadori, 213 pp., € 8.80.

Becoming a mother is an experience that is unparalleled in life, not just a turning point in the choices and changes most of the values \u200b\u200bwe believe in, but also affects the relationships with the people closest, becoming an extraordinary opportunity to revise its personal history and review its role inside and outside the family. Birth of a mother, based on analysis of individual cases and the personal contributions of many women, is primarily a work that deals with punctuality and psychological aspects of motherhood and its closely related themes such as fatherhood, premature birth, adoption. But it is also a participant and successful attempt to give voice for the first time the deeper emotions that animate the inner life of pregnant women: the dreams that the baby is coming, the intensity of the relationship with the newborn, the sense of responsibility towards a new life that demands our love and our dedication.

D ANIEL N. Stern teaches psychology at the University of Geneva and psychiatry at Cornell University Medical Center in New York. For years, student of the mother-child relationship, is the author of numerous books, including The interpersonal world of the child ( Bollati and Basic Books, 1987), Early social relationships: the child and the mother (Sovera Multimedia 1989) , Diary of a baby (Mondadori 1991) and maternal Constellation (Bollati and Boringhieri 1995)

Bruschweiler Nadia Stern worked as a pediatrician and child psychiatrist in Geneva.


A reading fit instead of an audience of "insiders" could be the following:

• Vegetti Silvia Finzi, " The child of the night. Becoming a woman becoming a mother ", Essays Oscar Mondadori, 278 pp., 7.75 €.

Who is the "child of the night"? A fascinating figure that the author reconstructs the unconscious through dream analysis that two girls talk about and draw, with extraordinary efficiency of expression in the course of psychotherapy. Present in dreams, games, their fantasies of childhood, the child of the night then seems to vanish in front of the royal son, the "baby of the day." But myths have retained his memory, and through extraordinary events of the secret initiation rites and female, reveals the eternal conflict between the sexes on the power to generate. In this momentodi crisis of female identity, and faced with new responsibilities imposed by procreation, which is the subject of scary technology, this personal and cultural journey into the unconscious, beyond the historical conditioning helps us to redefine motherhood across its biological complexity and symbolic. Rich with literary quotes and life stories, the book is a fascinating read for anyone who knows the challenges that our age brings us.

Silvia Finzi Vegetti teaches Dynamic Psychology at the University of Pavia, a clinical psychologist who has worked as psychotherapy for family problems and child. Some time been engaged in a debate about femininity, participated in the activities of the Cultural Center of Virginia Woolf Rome, Women's Documentation Centre of Florence, The Melusine Group of Milan. Collaborator of the Corriere della Sera and the magazine "together", is the author of numerous publications translated into several languages. Was published by Mondadori History of Psychoanalysis (1986), The child of the night (1990), The novel family (1992), Freud and the birth of psychoanalysis (1994). By Anna Maria Battistin wrote small steps (1994) and have changed Children (1996). And 'member of the National Bioethics.