I emphasize this because some of my colleagues, for whose academic attainments I have great respect, argue" 'You assume too much; this is not proved; this is not strictly scientific. We disagree with your neurology and your psychiatry is misleading, therefore you must be wrong.' My reply has been, with all humility: 'Yes, of course,' and I have returned to the labor ward to be greeted by happy women with their newborn babies in their arms: 'How right you are, Doctor, it is so much easier that way.' That is what really matters to the clinician. He should use the method that gives the best and safest result from all points of view until something better is discovered.
Grantly Dick-ReadTags: pain medicine labor pregnancy
For the first six months, all whe wanted was honest labor, finely crafted novels, and surf.
Eve BabitzIt is as great a crime to leave a woman alone in her agony and deny her relief from her suffering as it is to insist upon dulling the consciousness of a natural mother who desires above all things to be aware of the final reward of her efforts, whose ambition is to be present, in full possession of her senses, when the infant she already adores greets her with its first loud cry and the soft touch of its restless body upon her limbs.
Grantly Dick-ReadTags: pain joy perseverance labor birth anesthesia
The truth beyond the fetish's glimmering mirage is the relationship of laborer to product; it is the social account of how that object came to be. In this view every commodity, beneath the mantle of its pricetag, is a hieroglyph ripe for deciphering, a riddle whose solution lies in the story of the worker who made it and the conditions under which it was made.
Leah Hager CohenTags: society culture value labor price objects
Failing to listen to the woman is one of the biggest mistakes a practitioner can make.
Helen VarneyTags: medicine labor birth doctor midwife delivery
It is important to keep in mind that our bodies must work pretty well, or their wouldn't be so many humans on the planet.
Ina May GaskinTags: health labor birth normal
It would be a mistake, though, to consider care by family doctors or midwives inferior to that offered by obstetricians simply on the grounds that obstetricians need not refer care to a family physician or midwife if no complications develop during a course of labor.
Ina May GaskinTags: wisdom health labor birth doctor normal
Childbirth is normal until proven otherwise.
Peggy VincentTags: wisdom health labor birth doctor normal
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
Anatole FranceTags: man labor relaxation
Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital.
Edmund MorrisTags: capitalism violence labor socialism capital synecdoche
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