Childbirth was no longer unjustifiably despised by the medical community as it once had been at the beginning of the century.

* Louise Bourgeois Boursier publishes Diverse Observations on Sterility ; Loss of the Ovum after Fecundation, Fecundity and Childbirth ; Diseases of Women and of Newborn Infants in Paris, the first book on obstetrics written by a woman.

The term " natural childbirth " was coined by obstetrician Grantly Dick-Read upon publication of his book Natural Childbirth in the 1930s, which was followed by the 1942 Childbirth Without Fear.

The National Childbirth Trust, originally called The Natural Childbirth Trust, was founded in 1955 as the result of an advertisement placed in The Times by Prunella Briance.

# Childbirth care: access by all pregnant women to prenatal care

# Childbirth care: access by all pregnant women to referral facilities for high-risk pregnancies and obstetric emergencies

* Childbirth care: access by all pregnant women to prenatal care

Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth, North Atlantic Books, U. S., 2001

* 1854 – Nakayama begins to administer the Grant for Safe Childbirth, and thus begins to recruit her first followers.

Childbirth is an inherently dangerous and risky activity, subject to many complications.

* Childbirth is the process at the end of a human pregnancy that results in a baby being born.

Childbirth ( also called labour, birth, partus or parturition ) is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the expulsion of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus.

Childbirth can be an intense event and strong emotions, both positive and negative, can be brought to the surface.

Childbirth is stressful for the infant.

Childbirth was sometimes compared to warfare and the women who died in childbirth were honored as fallen warriors.

Childbirth was considered a form of battle, and its victims were honored as fallen warriors.

Childbirth is the process in which the baby is born.

Childbirth was seen to be miraculous, not requiring the participation of the male, and children only knew their mothers.

Gidley was for many years a voluntary antenatal teacher with the National Childbirth Trust and has been involved with many charitable organisations.

Childbirth and prenatal health care cost averaged $ 7, 090 for normal delivery in the US in 1996.

Tribeca called it " The Inconvenient Truth of Childbirth.

Childbirth was extremely significant to Athenians, especially if the baby was a boy.

New York: Childbirth Connection.

The National Childbirth Trust ( NCT ) is a UK-based charity with registered charity number 801395.

* Childbirth, especially from the start of uterine contractions to delivery

Childbirth usually occurs about 38 weeks after conception ; in women who have a menstrual cycle length of four weeks, this is approximately 40 weeks from the start of the last normal menstrual period ( LNMP ).

" Hard Labor: Women, Childbirth, and Resistance in British Caribbean Slave Societies ", in David Barry Gaspar and Darlene Clarke Hine, eds., More Than Chattel: Black Women and Slavery in the Americas ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996 ), pp. 193 – 217.

The practice gained notice in the yoga practitioner community when Jeannine Parvati Baker, author of the first book on prenatal yoga in the West, Prenatal Yoga & Natural Childbirth, practiced umbilical nonseverance for two of her own births, seeing it as a practical application of the yogic value of ahimsa as well as the core yoga teaching inherent in the primal bonding process that " all attachments will fall away of their own accord.

As for progress, the `` backward South '' can boast of Baton Rouge, which increased its population between 1940 and 1950 by two hundred and sixty-two percent, to 126,000, the second largest growth of the period for all cities over 25,000.

But by the time the risk was doubled, events had dismissed from his mind both increased percentages and a previously stated intention of considering carefully anything more serious than a bout of influenza.

What we need to realize is that the increasingly great contamination of the atmosphere by the Soviet tests had radically increased our own moral obligations.

Regardless of its unadjusted allotment, each State is guaranteed by law a minimum allotment each year equal to the allotment which it received in fiscal year 1954 -- increased by a uniform percentage of 5.4865771 which brings total 1954 allotments to all States up to $23,000,000.

Retired pay costs are increased by $94 million in 1961 over 1960, partly because of a substantial increase in the number of retired personnel.

These increased costs are partially offset by a decrease of $56 million in expenditures for the reserve forces, largely because of the planned reduction in strength of the Army Reserve components during 1961.

The Government of India agrees that it will take all possible measures to prevent the resale or transshipment to other countries or the use for other than domestic purposes ( except where such resale, transshipment or use is specifically approved by the Government of the United States of America ), of the surplus agricultural commodities purchased pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, and to assure that the purchase of such commodities does not result in increased availability of these or like commodities for export from India.

In accordance with the two-year contract signed in May, 1959, with the International Association of Machinists, AFL-CIO, wages of hourly employees were increased by 4% in May, 1960, and pay levels for non-exempt salaried employees were increased proportionately.

The president's opportunity for influencing education reaches its highest point, as he decides which projects he will cut back, which he will advance by increased allowances or new fund-raising efforts.

Milk production may be increased by the anti-infective properties of this drug.

Milk production may be increased by the anti-infective properties of this drug.

This, however, can only be considered approximate, as the diameter of the pulley was increased by the build-up of tape and the tape was occasionally removed from the pulley during the runs.

These dosages could have been increased by increasing the source strength which was small in this case.

The anterior lobe of the pituitary then responds by an increased output of TSH, causing the thyroid to enlarge.

Thus cortico-fugal discharges induced by topical application of strychnine to a minute area in the neocortex summate with spikes present in the hypothalamus and cause increased convulsive discharges.

Failure confirms the threat, and the intensity of anxiety is increased as the required learning becomes more difficult, so that by the time the child reaches the third grade the decrement in performance is pronounced.

State and local expenditures ( in real terms ) increased persistently from $26.5-billion in 1949 to $44.3-billion in 1959, and it would not be surprising if they showed a comparable increase in this decade, which would carry them to the neighborhood of $75-billion by 1970.

The submarine has increased its effectiveness by several orders of magnitude since World War 2.

this level will be increased by condensed steam.

In the meantime, generations keep being born, bitterness is increased by incompetence, pride, and folly, and the world shrinks around us.

Next day, reports went through the Department that Rooney had been outraged by what he considered a patent attempt to put public pressure on him for increased entertainment allowances and had sworn an oath that, that year, expense allowances would not rise a dollar.

Two millions were added to what had been set aside for it in Mrs. Meeker's lifetime, and the proviso made that as long as Brian Thayer continued to discharge his duties as administrator of the fund to the satisfaction of the board of trustees ( hereinafter appointed by the bank administering the estate ) he was to be retained in his present capacity at a salary commensurate with the increased responsibilities enlargement of the fund would entail.

With the money all but in hand, however, the Administration indicated that, instead of the 225,000 more men in uniform that President Kennedy had requested, the armed forces would be increased by only 160,000.