Word: childbirth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Established writer would like a good up-to-date idea for a motion picture which avoids politics, sex, religion, divorce, double beds, drugs, disease, poverty, liquor, Senators, bankers, cigarettes, wealth, Congress, race, economics, art, death, crime, childbirth and accidents (whether by airplane or public carrier); also the villain must not be an American, European, South American, African, Asiatic, Australian, New Zealander, or Eskimo ... No dogs allowed. Apply...
M.C.A. representatives traveled all over the U.S. preaching pre-natal care, and founded institutes in which 25,000 nurses learned better techniques of caring for women in childbirth; in 1932 a school was established for training nurse-midwives to replace ignorant midwives. The association is proud of the part it played in lowering the maternal death rate from 9.2 per 1,000 in 1918 to 3.7 (including diseases of pregnancy...
...association held an anniversary dinner in Manhattan's Cosmopolitan Club. Miss Hazel Corbin, who joined the association as a trained nurse in 1919 and became its general director in 1923, announced a new goal. The association would now like to see the principles of psychosomatic medicine applied to childbirth. Said Miss Corbin, a vigorous, greying 53: "The emergency death-preventing job which has been done in maternity care has exacted a price in emotional coinage and human dignity. When the obstetric care of the mother was moved from the home to the hospital to save life, childbearing was transported...
What to do about it? Childbirth must be made safer at home through more nurse-midwives who can work with doctors and recognize quickly any sign of abnormality that requires an expert obstetrician. Hospitals must be redesigned to remove "the redolence of pathology" found in present maternity wards; doctors must be trained to care for the emotional well-being of mothers, babies-and fathers...
...cranked out his sweet-&-sour rhymes for 25 years, not even pausing at the death of his son (1942) and his first wife (in childbirth, two years later). Lately he seemed to tire of his monotonous Muse; in January Donna Wahnna wrote...