Natural Painless Child-Birth
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The rational or commonsense way of removing that terrible curse?" In sorrow thou shall bring forth children "?was solved for me some nine years ago when I read Dr. Lahmann's Natural Hygiene and Dr. Alice B. Stockham's Tokology. Until I had studied these two books I was under the impression that, whilst painless and easy delivery is the rule amongst animals, it rarely occurs in civilised human beings, chiefly because the average female pelvis is too small in proportion to the size of the average child's head and body. But Lahmann taught me that such is not the case. The normal pelvis is not too narrow in women, the fault mainly lies in the size of the new-born infant, which is usually plump, or even quite fat, whereas new-born animals are very little more than skin and
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