Word: childbirth
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...Women's emotional problems after childbirth-long dignified with the name "postpartum psychosis"-are not peculiar to this period and not necessarily the result of childbirth, reported psychiatrists of the New York Hospital's Westchester Division: they are essentially the same as problems that women may have at any time of life. If they happen to follow childbirth, it is because the difficulties of this period serve as "the last straw"-but any other stressful situation might have the same effect...
Jose Buscaglia's sculpture marks him as one of the most proficient and talented of this group of artists. The bust of Don Jose is imposing. The surface treatment is unusual and very expressive. Childbirth of a Country Woman, also in plaster, is as much a technical achievement but far less successful. The moods of the two figures, the man and woman are so opposed that it is impossible to believe that that two human beings could be in proximity. The kneeling man's expression of contemplation is quite out of keeping with the shriek of pain that writhes from...
...statisticians estimated that without strict birth control China's population will reach 855 million in 15 years' time, pointed out that even with all the country's remaining virgin land broken up and cultivated, there would still not be enough food for all mouths. "Without planned childbirth," said China's brisk, close-cropped (female) Minister of Health Li Teh-chuan, "China will never be truly free...
Charlotte returns to daddy; the prince regent is won over; Charlotte marries her true love. This would be a safe, traditional spot to end a comedy. But, as hardly any members of History 142b (and even fewer members of the audience) remember, actually Charlotte promptly died in childbirth, saddening her father, frustrating his hopes for begetting a line of kings, and leading to the accession of a devious niece called Victoria...
...other focal character is a derelict doctor who, we are rather imperfectly told, came to town years before with his wife and the climate drove him to drink. He operated on her in childbirth when he was drunk, and she died. He is more or less expiating his deed as a futile, filthy, good-hearted drunk and buffoon. The central theme is largely the story of his "redemption" as he responds to the need of those around him in the plague, and to the widow's new-found attraction to him, and of her "acceptance" of things as they...