Effects of child birth preparation classes on parous womens’ attitude toward child birth

Natural Painless Child-Birth

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 b...

Child-birth without Fear

that this formidable surgery, which although difficult at first until the operative routines and techniques are developed, has improved the prognosis for what had often been regarded as previously hopeless cases and on which the whole gamut of orthodox surgery such as antero lateral drainage, posterior spinal fusion had often already been carried out. Encouraged by the satisfactory results of s...

Birth of 'A Child Possessed'

The germ of a novel arrives, I believe, in one moment of intense experience: when you catch an exchange of glances between a coloured girl and an old fiddler sitting opposite you in the Underground, when you hear from the dining-room of a back-street boarding house the lowing of a ship's siren. With me, the moment is generally lost even before the work begins. To the question, 'What gave you th...

Child abuse and its effects on birth. A research.

Child birth in squatting position.

OBJECTIVE To assess the risks and benefits of squatting position during second stage of labour and its comparison with the supine position. METHODS The study was conducted at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi from 1st January 1999 to 31st January 2000. A total of two hundred patients of similar ante partum, intrapartum and socio-economic...

Child birth, pregnancy and pelvic floor dysfunction.

INTRODUCTION To determine the prevalence of incontinence and its relation to various factors like age, parity, mode of delivery and birth weight. METHODS After informed consent, a questionnaire was filled by a trained interviewer. RESULTS The prevalence of incontinence was 18.6%. Incontinence was reported in 12.5% of primis as compared to 26.4% in multis. The incidence of incontinence rose ...