Pam Berry
About the Author
Tina was a reporter and editor at the Boston Globe for more than a decade, covering everything from business to politics to fashion -- the very things, she would learn, that have influenced birth for centuries. She went on maternity leave in 2004, which morphed into a book leave, which became permanent in late 2005, when the paper began offering voluntary resignation buyouts. Birth: The Surprising History of How We Are Born, is her first book, published in hardcover in October 2006 and paperback in September 2007. The UK edition was published under the name Birth: A History in April 2007 by Chatto & Windus, a division of Random House. The birth of her first child, in 2004, was by unexpected c-section, which, in part, inspired the book. The birth of her second, another son, in 2007, was a home VBAC, chronicled on her blog.