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When the Bahy C omesBv DR. MORRIS FISHBEIXEditor, Journal of the American Medical Association,and ot Ilygrcia, the Health MagazineSOME babies are born at home through their parents’ choice, and some because there simply isn’t time for the mother to get to the hospital.In most cases, duration of childbirth for a first baby is between 16 and 18 hours, and for later babies between eight ana 10 hours. There is no reason to be panic-stricken or over-excited when the first symptoms appear.Just as soon as the prospective mother knows that childbirth is to occur in the home, a kettle of water should be set to boil, and a small pair of scissors and two pieces of tape should be dropped into the water. These are necessaiy to take care of the cord of the baby.The best available room should be chosen for the mother, and should be kept warm, because birth in a warm room is much safer for both mother and baby. If the baby is born before the doctor or midwife comes, it should be wrapped immediately in a warm, clean towel and kept warm.Among the saddest tragedies to occur among human beings is death of a mother from infection j during childbirth. This disease is scientifically I called puerperal septicema. or sepsis. It has disturbed the minds of medical men for years. There is no doubt that, proper care of the mother before the baby is born, and observance of strict cleanliness duing childbirth, would greatly lower the incidence of such infection.Even today, however, conditions associated with childbirth are far from satisfactory. Women in childbirth, whose babies are cared for by ignorant or careless midwives, or are born under filthy conditions, are more likely to suffer from such infection than those attended in hospitals devoted particularly to the care of childbirth, or in clean rooms of good homes.There is a common superstition that more babies are born at night than in daytime. Actual investigation, however, shows that births vary little from hour to hour in the course of a day.Of 1089 babies born in Honolulu, 543 were born during the day, and 546 during the night. Of 1000 babies born at the Chicago Lying-in Hospital. 493 were bom during the day and 507 at night.The largest number of births during any single hour occurred between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morning, but that number was only a few more than were born from 9 to 10 o'clock at night and from 8 to 9 o'clock in the morning.
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El Paso Herald Post
El Paso, Texas, US
Tue, May 05, 1936
Page 4
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