Word: childing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Choice of Illness. A mother's anxieties about various aspects of her child's bodily functions may play an important part in the youngster's unconscious "choice" of psychosomatic illness, said Dr. George J. Mohr of Los Angeles' Mount Sinai Hospital. Some mothers nag about feeding or bowel movements; in such a setting the child may develop ulcerative colitis. If mother worries every time baby wheezes, he may "choose" asthma...
...Mohr cited the case history of a nine-year-old boy who complained of bellyaches after meals. His mother said that his pains were similar to hers-and she had a duodenal ulcer. Dr. Mohr found that the woman had not wanted the child; motherhood had made her give up a promising art career. He decided that her pains and her child's were both reactions to frustration and stress...
...illness or emotional stress in a pregnant woman damage the child? For the most part, doctors have tended to answer no, but now they are far less certain...
Item: countless pregnant women are subjected to outside emotional stresses, such as loss of husband by death or desertion, serious illness or death of a child, loss of income, housing problems. Item: many also suffer mysterious internal stresses apparently brought on by pregnancy, e.g., continued uterine bleeding or toxemia, an ill-defined, little-understood condition believed to be caused by unidentified poisons, often accompanied by high blood pressure, liver or kidney disease. Item: countless babies are born sickly, or with obvious deformities, or with impaired mental powers. Doctors are asking themselves what connection there is between these facts...
Born. To Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly Brinker, 22, blonde ex-Tennis Queen (1953 championships in Australia, France, England and the U.S.), and Gorman Brinker, 25, member of the 1952 U.S. Olympic equestrian team and San Diego State College student: a girl their first child. Name: Cynthia Ann. Weight...