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obstetric

[äb′ste·trik]
(medicine)
Of or pertaining to obstetrics.
Of or pertaining to pregnancy and childbirth.
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The obstetrically managed births, known for decades for higher morbidity and mortality rates as well as epidemically high, unnecessary surgical birth rates, are the problem.
What's pain got to do with it? (Pregnancy & Birth)
Age regressions to the birth experience itself were validated in a study by Cheek (1974) in which hypnotically regressed individuals displayed head and shoulder movements obstetrically accurate for birthing babies.
Memory access to our earliest influences
31) Some women who have been obstetrically abused, dream of going to the woods to birth their subsequent babies by themselves.
Exploring Legislated Ontario Midwifery: Texts, Ruling Relations and Ideological Practices
The ekphrastic endeavor engaged in by protagonists compelled to render articulate such idolizations becomes less a process of giving voice to what is mute than an attempt at obstetrically delivering what is now hopelessly encapsulated in and by the object.
Rossetti's "Jenny": Aestheticizing the Whore
It showed that in caring for obstetrically comparable women, physicians with high episiotomy rates within the trial had a different set of behaviors regarding a range of procedures.
Studying episiotomy: when beliefs conflict with science

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