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...positive babies and may send enough damaging antibodies into the developing child's bloodstream to cause stillbirth, brain damage or a miscarriage. Rh disease kills 10,000 babies in the U.S. each year. Until recently, the only treatment was to replace virtually the entire blood supply of the fetus with a massive transfusion in the womb...
...rest of the ritual plays itself out almost mechanically: Foxy's fetus is aborted, the Whitmans and the Hanemas get divorced, Piet and Foxy marry and move away. The remaining couples take up bridge, their place in the town having been quietly usurped by a younger crowd that "held play readings, and kept sex in its place, and experimented with LSD." Toward the end, Updike provides a fortissimo blast of obvious symbolism: the Congregational Church goes up in an apocalyptic fire that leaves untouched only the old tin weathercock, riding high over the gutted house...
...natural birth at Manhattan's Flower and Fifth Avenue Hospitals. The mother's face, at first view contorted during her contractions, suddenly suffused with pleasure at the first cry of her child. ABC also edited in segments of the famed Swedish film on the growth of the fetus that had been shown the week before on Public TV stations...
...JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "The Beginnings of Life" is a study of the development of a baby from fetus through birth...
...course unwilling to reveal all that I learned from the gypsies and my other sources, but there is more about the nature of palmistry that may prove interesting. The lines in the palm, particularly the four main ones (life, fate, head, and heart) are actually formed before birth. The fetus awaits birth with closed hands, and the act of making a fist creates creases or lines in the hand. I have looked at subjects as young as six weeks of age and found their fortunes quite easy to read, although some squinting is required. The lines deepen and change somewhat...