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Incubator Emotions? Another puzzle under study at Stanford involves the workings of the brain of an infant ejected prematurely from the womb. Its electrical discharges are different from those of a full-term baby's brain, and to find out just how the preemie's brain waves change, Dr. Kretchmer's group has devised a special electroencephalograph connected to babies' heads...
...idea that a woman should have a hysterectomy or have her ovarian tubes tied off after the third caesarean, say the D.C. doctors, is a fallacy dating back a quarter-century, when the incision for the delivery was made vertically through the upper part of the wall of the womb. This is the thickest, most muscular part, and is also closest to other vital organs that may be damaged in the operation...
...except in emergencies, up-to-date obstetrical surgeons usually make a curved cut across the lower part of the pelvis (technically, a laparotrachelotomy, or transverse cervical section) into a thinner part of the uterus. This carries far less risk of damage to the womb itself or to other organs -and, incidentally, leaves the woman free to wear a bikini afterward without embarrassment...
Acumen in the Womb...
...first and last (he left no heir) Baron Beveridge of Tuggal, who in 1942 published his "Social Insurance and Allied Services" report, which called for unemployment, health, marriage, maternity, widowhood, old age and death benefits for every British citizen, and became the framework for Britain's present-day "womb to tomb" coverage; in London...