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Expectant mothers in New York "shop" among traditional hospital delivery rooms, "birthing suites" and house-call midwives to find the method that best suits their attitudes. While most obstetricians welcome their well-prepared new patients, some think the fertile fringe has gone too far. Says Dr. Melchior Savarese, an obstetrician at Columbia Hospital for Women in Washington, D.C.: This group of women comes into my office with lists of questions. 'Am I going to have an I.V., an external monitor, an enema?' They set down guidelines. It causes minor confrontations. They're overly prepared." Says William Simon, professor of sociology...
Today that view has changed. "I even hate to use that term now," says Washington, D.C., Obstetrician William Gold. "We've learned that women over 35 can have normal pregnancies. Age is not necessarily a problem...
...reversal has come about because of changes both in medicine and in women. The boom in fitness programs has put women over 30 into better shape than ever before. At Baylor College of Medicine, Obstetrician Robert Franklin sees would-be mothers at 40 "in fabulous condition. They're in better health than many younger women." The popular concern for good nutrition has also made a difference. According to Reproductive Biologist Cecil Jacobson, improved diets help "conserve reproductive capacities...
...oarsman who could not make it to that tenth reunion was the stroke, Art Evans. "I really wanted to go, but I was busy delivering my third child that day," Evans, an obstetrician, recalled. Evans is now on a fellowship at the University of California at Irvine, where he is also an assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology. After he completes his fellowship, Evans plans to return to his position on the staff at the Mayo Clinic...
Because she was 41 when she became pregnant and thus ran a higher risk of complications than younger women, Rosa Skinner, a housewife in San Mateo, Calif., was sent by her obstetrician to the prenatal diagnosis clinic of the University of California-San Francisco. Ultrasound scans showed that she was bearing twins, a boy and a girl. At 28 weeks the female fetus seemed normal, but the male's kidneys and bladder were swollen with fluid backed up in the urinary tract...