Word: mother
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news sheet tells us that Congressmen are being "troubled" by two questions from their constituents: 1) "Why isn't my Johnny getting home faster?" and 2) "Why are they drafting my Johnny, now that the war is over?" . . . Mother No. 1 should be among the most enthusiastic supporters of a peacetime draft law. Mother No. 2 should thank God that her little darling was born too late to fight in this war, and is only being asked to serve now, in perfect safety, to relieve a man who has, perhaps, already gone through months, or years, of hell...
...modern pediatricians are suggesting a dreadfully old-fashioned practice: putting newborn babies in the same room with their mothers. Mrs. Frances P. Sim-sarian, mother of two, and Pediatrician Preston Alexander McLendon of Washington have made some happy discoveries about the procedure. Last month they enthusiastically told Journal of Pediatrics readers...
...When a baby stays in its mother's room, the mother gets used to it while it is still in a very sleepy phase. She can feed it whenever it feels hungry-sometimes eleven times a day. Mother and baby are thus well started on breast feeding. Such babies soon adopt a fairly regular schedule. Meanwhile they coo a good deal and suck their fingers very little...
...what they see, list a 25-lb. stillborn girl in 1916 as the largest on U.S. record. Last week medium-sized Mrs. Francis Strohl, 38, wife of a Lawton, Pa. lumberman, gave birth to a baby girl who would be hefty in any year: 18 Ibs. The child, her mother's 15th, was reported in fine condition...
...dark womb We did not know our mother's face; From the prison of her flesh we have come Into the unspeakable and incommunicable prison Of this earth...