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Labor (Obstetrics)

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Obstetrics
Pregnancy, Animal

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Images about Labor (Obstetrics)

21 images from works
  • A woman in labour, lying down, eyes closed, her partner next to her.
  • A woman lying on her back with her legs raised during labour, while a medical professional assists with the birth.
  • I think we ought to consider an epidural.
  • Vishnu reclining on the ocean with Brahma springing from a lotus growing from Vishnu's navel with attendants. Coloured transfer lithograph.
  • Events in Krishna's life. Gouache drawing.
  • A woman lying on her back with her legs raised during labour while a midwife checks her cervix for dilation.
  • A father holding his swaddled new born baby.
  • Sibah.
  • An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.
  • Foetuses in utero: six figures showing cross-sections of foetuses in various positions in the uterus prior to and during birth. Line engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after Smellie.
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Works from the collections

258 works

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    A woman in labour lying on her side recieving an epidural.

    Heather Spears | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329263i.61
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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    A caesarean section in progress.

    Heather Spears | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329263i.103
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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    A healthcare professional sitting between the legs of a pregnant woman, delivering a baby.

    Heather Spears | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329265i.73
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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    A woman in labour lying on her side in bed during labour, with a woman by her side.

    Heather Spears | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329265i.58
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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    A woman in labour lying on her back with a healthcare professional examining her vagina.

    Heather Spears | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329265i.80
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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Related topics

Pregnant women
Childbirth
Hospitals, Maternity
Fathers
Midwifery
Nurse Midwives
Parturition
Cesarean Section
Love
Labor Pain

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