Word: childbirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...doctors, mostly men, have argued that pain in childbirth is a good, natural thing. Some have held that pain makes the mother love her baby more, others that the worst of the pain is really caused by fear. Finally, somebody thought to ask some broadly qualified experts-women physicians who have had children of their...
...British Council of the Medical Women's Federation asked 300 doctor-mothers: Is relief of pain in childbirth necessary? The overwhelming response, reported by the British Medical Journal: yes. Of 196 who replied, 184 were in favor of drugs in the delivery room; only eight were definitely against. The women who answered had a combined experience of 425 confinements. Of these, 66% were in hospitals or nursing homes, where it is easier to relieve pain; only 28% were at home.* But 21% to 36% wanted more relief from pain than they...
...Said she: "Even when one has seen 300 or more confinements, as I have, the severity of labor pains comes as an intense surprise. They are more excruciating than anything you can possibly imagine. I am certainly in favor of spreading the use of relieving drugs in childbirth as widely as possible." But men are not the only ones who pooh-pooh birth pangs, according to Dr. Conrad. Among the toughest opponents of pain relief in Britain are midwives, who want their patients fully conscious so they can take orders...
...Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn't know any more than the infidel press, so it weaseled. It put its banner headline on a House of Commons debate about a bill to provide analgesia for childbirth: COMMONS BACKS PAIN RELIEF FOR MOTHERS. Then, into column 5, halfway down, it dropped a three-inch story with the noncommittal head: MOLOTOV REPLACED BY VISHINSKY...
...whole theory is so simple and makes so much sense. One of the things which impressed me most was the fact that Dr. Read gives women credit for having the desire to go through with a natural childbirth...