Even such situations as childbirth, where pain is culturally acceptable, have become occasions for the use of sedation.
Can we predict which women are at risk of pelvic -oor damage during childbirth?
It can be inferred that the employer anticipated another labour shortage or that the childbirths in 1900 and 1901 necessitated more workers.
Postnatal depression-nonpsychotic depressive illness-is a major public health problem affecting approximately one in seven women after childbirth.
It commonly occurs after childbirth or postmenopausally, when atrophy occurs related to oestrogen deficiency.
She had died in childbirth, leaving her husband with a baby boy.
Moreover, widows outnumbered widowers even while women were still fecund and at risk of dying in childbirth.
Marriage, childbirth and death mark ageing, not number of years survived.
