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...Labor is divided into three stages. The first begins with pain's onset, ends with the complete opening of the womb's mouth, averages 12 hr. in first pregnancies, 4 hr. thereafter. Second stage ends with the baby's delivery, average, 4 to 6 hr. in first pregnancies, 1 to 4 hr. thereafter. Third stage ends with the expulsion of the afterbirth, should take only a few minutes...
...greedy for more land as the soil is greedy for sun and rain, does not die at the conclusion as he does in the book. And he has not three sons given him by OLan, the big-boned, but one. It is OLan, with a hard knot in her womb from brutal child-bearing and brutal work, whose death climaxes with dignity this conscientious play...
...moored skiff rests upon the ripples of a calm lake." He finds that women like to watch the jerks of the pen. Above all it tells them when they are about to get a pain, when they must bear down.- The Dodek device-he calls it a hysterograph or womb register-has already proved useful to obstetrics. There are a dozen drugs commonly used to save a woman pain and exertion during her labor. The Dodek device indicates just how the uterine musculature reacts to each drug, tells when it is advisable to use one, to discard another...
...shipyards. The sea is at one stroke covered with white poppies, the night is plastered all over with Greek letters and algebraic signs. There's dark America yonder like a whale bubbling out of the Ocean! Hark! Howling Asia feels a new god leaping in her womb...
...Pengelly, evil from his mother's womb and now a professional blackmailer, had betrayed Osmund to the police, and Osmund and his pals knew it. After all these years Pengelly had invited his victims to a conference, hoping to use them in his business. Gunn turned up just in time to make one of the party, to witness the bloody finale, to discover that Helen was his at last...