Word: motherism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been found with three times as much Sr-89as Sr-90 in his bones). A pregnant woman may get Sr-89 in milk or other fresh foods, so the danger is greatest to the unborn, said Dr. Schulert, "since the growing fetal skeleton reflects the diet of the mother," and the fast-growing fetus is especially vulnerable to damage from radiation...
...Mothers who cannot get over "that tired feeling," and complain that their doctors are no help, won sympathy in an unexpected quarter last week. At an Atlantic City meeting of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, amid such topics as pelvic surgery and total body sodium, the Cleveland Clinic's Dr. Leonard Lovshin flashed a picture on the screen, explained: "We have here a tired mother. She is not sick-she is tired. She is not maladjusted-she is pooped...
...real vacation in years, and she may have various worries about finances, husband and children. Being conscientious, she gets involved in clubs, Brownies, P.T.A.s, heart drives, church work, hauling children, music, dancing." In addition to her children, she usually has animals to raise, and in wear and tear on mother "a puppy equals about one and a half children, and a cat with kittens equals...
What to do? Many physicians, finding nothing organically wrong, tell such mothers: "It's all in your mind." That only increases their worries and frustrations. Others, said Dr. Lovshin, "get out their pills and potions and injections" and treat the women for complaints of the doctors' own imagining-anemia, low blood pressure, low metabolism. Or, "we tell them they are not eating right, give them vitamins, and since no normal, active mother has any time to eat right, this catches them all." Some doctors become obsessed with a few pounds' overweight, or fancied excesses in coffee drinking...
...Lovshin's prescription: thorough examination to rule out physical illness, then explanation and reassurance with absolute truthfulness. Little things-a new hat, dining out, or going to a ball game-help in mild cases. "A tranquilized mother would be about as good as a tranquilized Notre Dame football team," says Dr. Lovshin. "Who wants to live with a wet rag?" So he is against giving tranquilizers to tired mothers. But he thinks there may be a place for tranquilizers in handling these cases: "Give them to the husband, children and puppies...