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...right side, as she has been taught." The sound of the patient's deep and rapid breathing signals the onset of each new contraction; they are now coming three minutes apart. In a quiet moment, a microphone attached to the doctor's stethoscope picks up the fetal heartbeat, amplified to thunderous volume. "That's fine," he remarks. "One hundred forty-five and going strong." Between contractions, Mrs. Usill complains of hunger. "I could do with some honey," she says, and it is brought...
...inquiry quickly focused on oxygen. At Harvard, experiments with mice proved that too little oxygen at critical stages of fetal development caused a host of abnormalities, including a condition similar to R.L.F. In Melbourne, Australia, Dr. Kate Campbell recalled that R.L.F. had first appeared in Women's Hospital when new incubators were installed and all premature babies began to get liberal doses of oxygen. In Birmingham, England, doctors pointed out that the incidence of R.L.F. rose when premature infants began to get larger and longer doses of oxygen. When oxygen was reduced, the frequency of the disease decreased...
...animals. But the English ophthalmologists are hopeful that their preliminary experiments contain some preliminary answers. It now seems more probable than ever that too much oxygen in the incubator, combined with sudden removal to normal air, may cause retrolental fibroplasia in premature children. And too little oxygen in the fetal blood stream may help to bring about the same condition...
...womb. There is something beating in me and through me-my mother's heart. I can't see-and it feels as if I've got no mouth." He asked her in what position she found herself. She answered, "Curled up," and she "immediately assumed the fetal position." When Dr. Kelsey tried to get this patient to describe her existence before the "oneness," she babbled some seemingly incompatible impressions: "It was dark, yet filled with colors of indescribable beauty; there was complete silence, yet the place was filled with heavenly music; it was still, yet everything...
While Sergeant Kerr chain-smoked and watched nervously on a TV set in the hospital basement, the cameras showed his wife Lillian on the operating table, virtually obscured by doctors and nurses in close-order formation. There was a short explanation of what was going to happen and the fetal heartbeat pounded over the air. Then the cameras switched to the hospital's up-to-the-minute facilities for care of premature babies. Only the TV crew and newsmen saw the actual incision in Mrs. Kerr's abdomen and the quick, dramatic extraction of the full-term baby...