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...method. It was almost unbelievable that two deliveries in the same general atmosphere could be so different. During the labor with my first child, I was scared to death, expecting the worst, and experiencing it. I couldn't wait for the anesthetic. My second delivery was a natural childbirth with no anesthesia, and no desire...
Director Ford was apparently trying to develop a muscular yarn about the effect of innocence and helplessness on man's wickedness. Three escaping bank bandits, in Technicolor, stumble across a woman in childbirth, stranded in a covered wagon during a sandstorm. The crooks, all 15-minute eggs, immediately begin quaking with spasms of oldtime religion, secondhand paternal pride and firsthand conscience. One of the godfathers (Harry Carey Jr.) dies from exhaustion and a slight wound he picked up in the robbery. Another (Pedro Armendariz) breaks a leg and has to shoot himself. That leaves John Wayne and Baby; Mother...
...British obstetrician reasoned it out, childbirth is a natural process, and should not be painful. He decided that the pain that does come with normal birth is caused by fear. Fear causes tension, he explained, and tension causes the muscles of the uterus to work against one another, which causes pain...
...Grantly Dick, Read (TIME, July 22, 1946) began campaigning for "natural" childbirth some 30 years ago. His prescription for the delivery room: banish fear, use as few drugs as possible. Two years ago Dr. Read came to the U.S. and found interested listeners in Dr. Herbert Thorns and Dr. Frederick W. Goodrich...
...Natural childbirth, said Dr. Goodrich, is not completely painless; only about 2% of the 400 patients reported no pain at all. The majority felt some pain, which they were "quite willing to tolerate in view of the exaltation accompanying conscious delivery." Some drugs were used, too. Only 35% had their babies without any anesthesia or painkilling drugs ; about half the rest had small doses of Demerol or whiffs of nitrous oxide (dentistry's "laughing gas"). The mothers were told to ask for drugs if they felt they needed them. Only 12% were not fully conscious...