Word: childbirth
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...under the proper circumstances, in sober fact the pregnancy may express hostility on the part of either husband or wife, increase the self-esteem of either, or be a mere coincidence . . . For the woman who has been trained to regard men as beasts, sexual intercourse as vile, and childbirth as a sort of vaginal Armageddon, the pregnancy may be a massing together of terrors...
...Branch and Reiser are not impressed by the emotional crisis that sometimes follows childbirth-the "socalled post-partum psychosis." They have never seen it in a woman who has not had deep emotional disturbances long before...
...show was starkly simple in plot: after seven years of marriage, a woman finally becomes pregnant only to learn that she must die of leukemia, perhaps even before the baby is born. Blunt-featured Richard Boone carried authority as the doctor who fights to keep the mother alive until childbirth, and the delivery-room scenes were as sensational and convincing as anything yet seen on TV. Beverly Garland heartbreakingly suggested the courage and despair of the doomed wife, while Lee Marvin did remarkably well with the necessarily skimped role of the husband...
...Among his rich preliminary finds: a colored, life-size terra-cotta statue of a god, probably Zeus adorned with a thin, Dali-like mustache; a rare, ten-inch nude model of Hera, wife of Zeus and the goddess of fertility, in the squatting position of ancient Greek women in childbirth...
...married a widower, raised a son and daughter, canned thousands of quarts of farm produce, and nursed her neighbors through illness and childbirth. But after 25 years of marriage, Bertha Holdeman and her husband were divorced, and she went back to evangelism and Bible teaching. She was in Tampa, when the Rev. John Turnbull and his wife met her while making preparations for an independent Baptist mission in Haiti. One day Bertha Holdeman sighed: "I wish you had a corner in your suitcase to stick me." A month later the Turnbulls invited her to come...