A Smaller I: Conception to Birth

A Smaller I: Conception to Birth

Richard Dryden

Publishing details

A Smaller I: Conception to Birth by Richard Dryden

Copyright 2018 Richard Dryden

ISBN 978-0-9929599-2-0

This e-book published by Rufus-Pi Imprint, Hovea and Minard: 2905 Victoria Road, Hovea 6071, Western Australia, and Loch Fyne Sealladh, Victoria Park, Minard, Argyll, Scotland, PA32 8YN.

Front Cover: Bronze Fetus by Hans Arkeveld (1987).

The moral right of Richard Dryden to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright Designs and Patents Act of 1988.

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner and the publisher of this book.

This is a companion book to ‘A Smaller I: Reflections of a fetal cell" published in 2015 by Richard Dryden and Hans Arkeveld, Rufus-Pi Imprint. Both books are available from www.lulu.com.

Introduction

This is a journey we all make - we all begin as a single cell, the fertilised egg, and then over the next approximately 9 months develop into a baby ready