Word: fetal
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...caution extends earlier warnings on the hazards of heavy drinking during pregnancy. Studies have shown that 30% to 45% of infants born to women who drink upwards of 3 oz. of pure alcohol daily (the equivalent of six or more cocktails) have a set of defects known collectively as fetal alcohol syndrome. Its ravages include mental retardation, growth deficiencies and distinctive facial features. Similar problems occur in about 10% of the babies born to women who consume 1 to 2 oz. of alcohol...
Virginia. Republican Governor John Daton last week vetoed a hotly contested bill that would have provided funds for abortions in cases of rape, incest or gross fetal abnormality. The Governor felt the bill was too liberal. Lieutenant Governor Charles Robb, a probable Democratic nominee for Governor this year, had cast the tie-breaking vote in the state senate for the bill. Baptist Preacher Jerry Falwell of Lynchburg, leader of the Moral Majority, called Robb's vote "shocking and unexpected" and vowed it would end Robb's chances of election...
...inhibits labor by relaxing the muscles of the uterus. In tests on 350 pregnant women at eleven centers in the U.S., it has successfully prolonged pregnancy to the 36th week in more than half of the cases. The drug, to be sure, has side effects, including increased maternal and fetal heart rate, a slight drop in blood pressure, palpitations, tremors and nervousness. Recalls one Chicago mother, Susie Kellett: "It was like superspeed." Still, the effects appear to be transient; Kellett went on to give birth to healthy quadruplets...
Tension release, Rick Spiers '79-4 says, can be a spectacular sight. Some people have had memories of their birth so vivid that they jump into a fetal position and start twisting and turning--recreating their own birth...
...dealing with long-suppressed aspects of the trauma of birth. Leonard Orr discovered the technique in California and taught people to lie face down in a hot tub, breathing through a snorkel and maintaining a calm mindset. "After 20 to 25 minutes they'd go into a kind of fetal position and their breath would get very labored," Hollingsworth explains. This typically led to an ecstatic "rebirth experience" which was for many people "too powerful, too much of an accelerated growth." Hollingsworth now uses a "dry rebirthing technique" involving special breathing exercises that make it easier for the client...