Word: childbirth
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...obstetrician advises expectant mothers who are lucky enough to have husbands that they can learn something about bearing children from the wayward members of their sex. Writing in London's Lancet, Dr. Albert W. Bauer claims that unmarried women usually have an easier time during pregnancy and in childbirth than those who are married...
...cruelty unconsciously; they kill by attrition and neglect. A devoted mother kills her soldier son by telling him, as he lies badly wounded, that the girl he left behind loves another man. A husband kills his sick wife by casually informing her that he spent the moment of her childbirth with another woman...
...this point the reader sees that Novelist Singer, beginning his account amid cow dung and human bestiality, has subtly led his tale away from the kind of reality that is composed of what is probable and what is worldly. As the novel continues, it is legend. Wanda dies in childbirth, and her screams reveal her as a Gentile. Jacob is arrested, but escapes and travels with his infant son to Palestine. In his old age, Jacob returns to the village where Wanda died. He finds that her bones, buried in unconsecrated ground, have been surrounded by spreading graves; the dead...
...though their tone is beyond compare). They feature player spinets with foot pedals only, feel that pumping out the music is a genuine part of the nostalgia that is their stock in trade. Says one foot-pumping purist: "It gives you a sort of feeling of satisfaction .. . like natural childbirth...
...popularly known as the goddess of the hunt, Artemis was worshiped at Vravron as a protector of maternity. From a still legible book of offerings, Papadimitriou and his team confirmed that pregnant women left rings at the temple to secure protection, and that those who died in pregnancy or childbirth bequeathed to the goddess their most precious possessions...