Harriet Sharkey currently writes about health for the Viveka Women's Health Centre, and has written on pregnancy issues for numerous magazines including Pregnancy and Baby, Babygro, Prima Magazine, and the Independent on Sunday. She was co-author (with Yehudi Gordon) of Birth and Beyond (Ebury, 2002), and The Journey into Parenthood. She has two young children.
Ian Greer is Professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the University of Glasgow, after a long career in practice as a House Officer and Registrar at the Royal Maternity Hospital and Royal Infirmary, Glasgow.
He is, perhaps, best known for his pregnancy and childcare self-help website, 'mom-e.com'.