Notes on Painless Childbirth and Infant Feeding

a primigravida who had been in labour fortyeight hours, with a large baby, a weakly contracting uterus, a good pulse and a flat pelvis, above whose brim the baby's head was floating freely. The membranes had ruptured early in labour and there was no sign of foetal life, but I thought it worth trying a forceps extraction before proceeding to craniotomy. Low Csesarean section was then in its early days, the surroundings were unsuitable, and the foetus almost certainly dead. As I feared, the forceps proved a failure, so I performed craniotomy and removed the child. Now the interesting thing about this patient