Word: infantability
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...Bakwin's opinion, is the fad for incarcerating them in hospitals. To begin with, he thinks that, in spite of some advantages, a hospital is a poor place for a child to be born in: 1) there is little evidence that hospital delivery has reduced maternal or infant deaths; 2) it exposes the newborn infant to hospital-prevalent diseases (notably diarrhea) and the scientific inhumanity of doctors and nurses. Separating the baby from its mother at birth, instead of allowing it to be cuddled and breastfed, is a bad beginning, says Dr. Bakwin. The crime is compounded when...
Despite many contrary opinions, Reynard still plainly considers himself as a much put-upon individual, "as faultless as a newborn infant ... a man of piety and a pillar of religion." As Grimbart the Badger, his long-suffering nephew, often pointed out, Reynard was frequently to be found at his devotions...
...novels, it appears, was interpreted as a vindictive portrait of Rebecca's grandmother. Mrs. Jardine's leaving her first husband was apparently a noted scandal of the 1890s, complete with ruined career, resignation from the diplomatic corps, and a midnight attempt by Mrs. Jardine to kidnap their infant daughter Ianthe. When Ianthe was 18 her emancipated mother sent a lover to win her away from her conventional guardian-a plot which left the lover dead by his own hand, Ianthe out of her wits, and her illegitimate child dead...
Died. Dr. Sara Josephine Baker, 71, famed pediatrician who overcame male professional prejudice to head the first U.S. child-hygiene bureau in New York City (later copied in nearly every State), brought down the infant death rate from 144 per 1,000 births in 1907 to 66 per 1,000 in 1923; from a heart ailment; in Manhattan. In recent years she shared a farm near Princeton, N.J. with two other noted spinsters: Authoress I. A. R. Wylie, 59, and Dr. Louise Pearce, 59, top-ranking woman doctor with the Rockefeller Institute of Medical Research...
...Soundly hope for better supplies of infant's and children's wear, but are uncertain about delivery time...