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...pregnant woman's viral infections may damage the baby in four ways: 1) by causing prompt abortion; 2) by killing the fetus, leading to later stillbirth; 3) by preventing normal development of organs, so that the baby is born deformed; 4) by infecting the baby so that its first days or weeks of independent life are an uphill struggle against disease. Viruses may strike at any time from the first few days after conception to the moment of delivery...
...Abortion and stillbirth commonly result from infections with the viruses of smallpox, ordinary measles (rubeola), polio, influenza and, less often, mumps. Measles works fast and is deadly to the fetus probably because of the high fever that accompanies the appearance of the red spots. Polio is not a deformer of the unborn, and usually is not deadly if the mother's infection comes late in pregnancy. But polio sometimes causes premature birth...
...With the help of native labor, a rich tobacco crop springs from the land, and Actress Greco gets noticeably productive herself. But the natives go off on a binge instead of liftin' that bale, and she loses the child while a crocodile looks on gloomily. Why should a stillbirth transfix a crocodile? It must have been the bright lamplight, reasons Todd, and with this invaluable clue, he soon bags himself enough crocodile skins to keep the handbag industry going for a year...
...result, Dr. Hunter told the American Association of Blood Banks, the stillbirth rate in cases of Rh incompatibility drops to 3%. And the 10% of babies formerly born alive but too weak to survive has been cut to 2%. Before he used cortisone, said Dr. Hunter, he had never seen an Rh-positive child born alive to an Rh-negative mother who had previously had a stillbirth; now, out of 21 such pregnancies, he has seen 18 live babies born, and 15 of them survived...
Tragedy and exposure force his hand. Dinah gets pregnant and has a stillbirth. A poison-pen letter informs Madeleine of her husband's adulterous affair. Rickie promises not to see Dinah again, a promise he soon finds he cannot keep. When Madeleine turns down his halfhearted divorce plea, Rickie decides to run away with Dinah, but an attack of ulcers changes that plan. When he finally gets on his feet again. Dinah has drifted away from him, towards drink and the arms of another lover. Though she puts a "good face" on their patched-up marriage, Madeleine soon tosses...