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Labor Pain

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  • I think we ought to consider an epidural.
  • A woman in labour with a pained expression on her face lying back on a bed with her knees wide and her pregnant bump on display.
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Catalogue

    • Pictures

    A woman in labour lying in bed with closed eyes and a pained or exhaling expression on her face.

    Spears, Heather, 1934- | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329263i.47
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
    • Books

    Painless childbirth through psychoprophylaxis : lectures for obstetricians / I. Velvovsky, K. Platonov, V. Ploticher and E. Shugom.

    Velvovsky, I. | Date: 1960
    • Pictures

    A woman in labour lying on her side holding a mask for gas and air pain relief and someone's hand holding her wrist.

    Spears, Heather, 1934- | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329263i.70
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
    • Books

    Deliver me from pain : anesthesia and birth in America / Jacqueline H. Wolf.

    Wolf, Jacqueline H. | Date: 2009
    • Pictures

    A woman in labour with a pained expression on her face laying back on a bed holding the hand of a person sitting out of frame.

    Spears, Heather, 1934- | Date: 1987 | Reference: 3329265i.19
    Part of: Drawings by Heather Spears.
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