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DIED. Benjamin Henry Sheares, 73, obstetrician and gynecologist who served since 1971 as President and ceremonial head of state of Singapore; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Singapore...
...research, Cole taped interviews with groups of mothers and sent out hundreds of questionnaires. Unfortunately, her research included no unmarried mothers, no one who had had a woman obstetrician and no one who had had a baby at home. Still, her initial discovery applies to anyone in pregnancy: "Whatever the rules, each woman is bound to be the exception." Her book, which includes many viewpoints and possibilities, is a kind of print-version support group, and, as she suggests, should be read along with all the other how-to-have-a-baby books...
These days, an informed father is essential, not least, in Cole's book, because he is the mother's backup in her struggles with the obstetrician. Male doctors are not exactly the heroes of this book. For all is not peaceful birthing rooms and tranquil, exultant deliveries, as older mothers once hoped. According to Cole, women who have placed their faith in the teachings of Fernand Lamaze, Frederick Leboyer, Elizabeth Bing and other advocates of natural childbirth will, almost automatically, find themselves in an adversary position when they enter the hospital. She writes: "The truth is that childbirth...
...idea of using womb sounds to calm unruly newborns was first explored by the British and Japanese but did not hit the commercial big tune until Entrepreneurs Bob Bissett and Marie Shields teamed with Fort Lauderdale Obstetrician William Eller in 1975. Eller selected as their recording artist a nonsmoking, well-nourished pregnant woman, waited until she began labor and then inserted a tiny microphone through her dilated cervix into her uterus...
...treatments are staggering. Samples: in 1969 Massachusetts General Hospital charged $80 a day for a semiprivate room. Now the bill is $189 a day. Ten years ago, a baby could be delivered at Manhattan's New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center for $350 in hospital bills, exclusive of the obstetrician's fee. But when 6-lb. Priscilla W. was born there in a fine uncomplicated delivery, she cost her parents $2,800?more than $450 a pound?$1,300 of that for the hospital...