What woman hasn't said to her husband: "You should just feel the pain of giving birth!" In this book, Turner describes how the male seahorse's brood pouch bulges like a balloon: "It puffs in and out, in and out, like the cheeks of a trumpet player. The seahorse pumps with his tail, bending and folding like a jackknife, working hard to give birth ... The mother seahorse waits nearby. She does nothing to help the father or the babies." The book does have beautiful pictures of sea horses and their neighbors throughout.