Publisher's Synopsis
364,501 times a day, somewhere in the world, a new life begins and with it a new story. 'Birth Day' is the round-the-world journey of a mother, photographer and journalist searching for these stories and for the answer to the questions: 'Why do we bring children into the world today? What does it mean to be born in a particular place in the world? And how does the world welcome its children? In each location Lieve Blancquaert stepped into the maternity ward and literally, into the life of the newborn baby and its family, meeting mothers during one of the most emotional events of their lives: the birth of their son or daughter.
