Word: obstetricians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When an unmarried woman becomes pregnant, she often feels the eyes of the world trained disapprovingly on her. One result is that she tries to conceal her condition as long as possible. Nowa Viennese obstetrician advises expectant mothers who are lucky enough to have husbands that they can learn something about bearing children from the wayward members of their sex. Writing in London's Lancet, Dr. Albert W. Bauer claims that unmarried women usually have an easier time during pregnancy and in childbirth than those who are married...
...London's University College Hospital, Obstetrician C. N. Smyth and Audiologist K. P. Murphy were trying to find out why some babies are born deaf. To their surprise, they discovered that even while normal babies are still in the womb they can not only hear musical tones, but usually respond to them by speeding up their heartbeat. The phenomenon may be observed as long as three months before the baby...
Knowledge that babies can hear in the womb is no mere scientific oddity, says Dr. Smyth: testing the fetus' response to sound enables the obstetrician to judge its health. In the series tested, two babies reacted normally at 30 weeks but failed at 34 weeks. Both were stillborn to diabetic mothers. Presumably, they could have been saved by Caesarean delivery if the change had been caught in time...
...Obstetrician to the birth of the most impressive plays of contemporary American drama...
...magazine considered feminine health problems with an obstetrician's candor, nourished the dreams of fat girls everywhere with an endless array of case histories ("I Lost 160 Pounds and I Am Just Beginning to Live...