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...baby's sucking action stimulates the release of the hormone, oxytocin, from her pituitary gland, which causes the womb to contract and hastens recovery from childbirth. Even more important, women who have nursed are less likely to develop breast cancer. Yet for all these advantages, only two out of every five U.S. mothers give their babies the opportunity to breast feed...
...operation is often done immediately after childbirth. It is technically easier then, and more convenient because the patient is already in the hospital. Surgeons' fees average around $200. Increasing use of contraceptive pills among women who can afford them may tend to cut down female sterilization. But there is no pill...
Manhattan's Doctors Hospital, a fashionable stork pad for East Side society, was dismayed. But West Side Story Star Carol Lawrence, 30, was determined. After taking a $40 stamina-building course in what its fans these days call "educated childbirth," she wanted that "do-it-yourself feeling." So she did it and felt it, and two weeks after 7-lb. 9-oz. Christopher was delivered, she held a press conference to tell about it. "It beats any show I've been to," trilled Carol, who had stayed awake all through her own production and was later told...
...Christmas. Now, some 800,000 West Berliners with relatives in the East will be able to make as many as five family visits a year at holiday times. In addition, West Berliners can cross the Wall within 24 hours if there is a family emergency (sickness, death, marriage or childbirth). This is permitted under a hardship clause, which also allows the East zone member of a married couple sundered by the advent of the Wall to emigrate to the West...
Nonetheless, among U.S. medical men, nonbelievers still outnumber believers in natural-childbirth methods, and many obstetricians tend to deride the evangelical fervor of the naturalists for drugless childbirth. But even doctors who are not advocates of natural childbirth are willing to acknowledge that there is good in what the naturalists preach. Nowadays, fewer mothers are anesthetized in delivery-a practice long scorned by naturalists. There is also a growing trend toward the type of prenatal preparation and exercise that naturalists have been strongly recommending as standard obstetrics for more than three decades...