Sinaugolo tribe of British New Guinea, women after childbirth not allowed to handle food in the, iii.
Chopping-knife, soul of woman inchildbirth transferred for safety to a, xi.
Adivi or forest Gollas of Southern India, seclusion of women at childbirth among the, iii.
Manahiki, South Pacific, women afterchildbirth not allowed to handle food in, iii.
Chittagong, opening everything in house to facilitate childbirth in, iii.
Dyaks, the, of Borneo, ceremony to aid a woman in childbirth among, i.
Roro district of British New Guinea, women after childbirth tabooed in the, iii.
See also Childbirth Travancore, special terms used with reference to persons of the blood-royal in, i.
Kadiak, island off Alaska, uncleanness of women at childbirth in, iii.
Beliefs concerningChildbirth in some Australian Tribes," in Man, xii.
They have numerous beliefs regarding the tigbalag, the patianac, the asuang, the last two of which are the enemies of childbirth and children.
This recalls that distinguished old neurologist who wished to deny the attribute "sexual" to a childbirth phantasy which was represented in a dreamy state.
This readily explains her suspicion at the childbirthand her discrediting of her mother.
Hence soldiers killed in battle and women dying in childbirth receive special consideration in the exclusive heaven of (Osiris's) Horus's Indian and American representatives, Indra and Tlaloc.
Artemis was a gynæcological specialist: for she assisted women not only in childbirth and the expulsion of the placenta, but also in cases of amenorrhœa and affections of the uterus.
As he associates this with childbirth the possibility suggests itself whether the "birth-promoter" may not be simply the placenta.
These goddesses afforded help to women in childbirth and were regarded as guardians of the portal.
For two days after childbirth she does no work, and for some time she must not eat the fat of pig or fish.
They are supposed to suck blood, and when a woman dies at childbirth from bleeding, the belief is that it was caused by these evil spirits that in the daytime appear as ordinary human beings.
Although death at childbirth is known to occur, usually within fifteen minutes the mother rises and repairs to the house.
The handsome woman who figures in this story is an evil antoh which afflicts women at childbirth and by the Ot-Danums and others is called Kamkamiak, the one with the long nails.
Glenton, Wuchang, China, writes in the Spirit of Missions for July, 1902: Recently I was called to a case of childbirth away out in the country.
As a rule they would rather the women died than allow a man to interfere; the only comfort they give them is the assurance of the Prophet that women who die in childbirth go straight to Paradise.
Among the Lao a woman dying in childbirth is not allowed to be cremated, for her death is supposed to have been caused by evil spirits and the victim is blamed and is not deemed worthy of cremation wherein is merit.
Without doubt the most curious custom among these people is that childbirth is a public function, and the whole village may assemble to witness the event.
As to the precipitating cause of the attack, she spoke of her flowing so much after childbirth and of her operation.
Even childbirth may be mightily helped or hindered by the mother's state of mind.
Childbirth was attended by physicians if the patient was well-to-do or the case was serious.
Or what woman would ever embrace her husband if she foresaw or considered the dangers of childbirth and the drudgery of motherhood?
An attack coming on a few hours after childbirth is indicative of infection during or previous to labor.
The vagina after childbirth possesses all the conditions most favorable for the production of putrefaction--viz.
Hereditary predisposition, physical and mental exhaustion, epileptic seizures and childbirth are all predisposing causes.
Cases of mania following childbirth are those which most urgently demand careful and frequent feeding, artificially administered if necessary.
From the moment of conception, during the months of gestation, at the time of childbirth and after, changes of great interest take place in the germ of human life and in the body of the mother.
The apprehensions of dangers which associate themselves in the minds of many with childbirth are not often realized.
Better, far better, bear a child every year for twenty years than to resort to such a wicked and injurious step; better to die, if need be, in the pangs of childbirth than to live with such a weight of sin on the conscience.
Medical authorities assert that at least six weeks are required after childbirth before the womb assumes its natural size and position.
Illustration: Emergency childbirth kit] Instructions such as those contained in this chapter also should be considered a part of the emergency childbirth kit.
How it was I never noticed the marks of childbirth on her before I know not, but I never had.
For the same reason, after childbirth the mother is taken to worship the village well.
One special part of the purificatory rite following childbirth is to bring the mother out and expose her to the rays of the sun.
She, and through her the children whom she trains, would learn the evils of premature or too constantly recurring childbirth and how to avoid them easily.
Of motherhood they have no shame: they celebrate marriage and childbirth frankly with a fine candour.
I answer that, The pains of childbirth are caused by the infant opening the passage from the womb.
But the mother's pains inchildbirth did not concern Christ, who came to atone for our sins.
The pains of childbirth in the woman follow from the mingling of the sexes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "childbirth" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: bearing; birth; childbearing; confinement; delivery; hatching; labor; parturition; stork; travail
