Rotunda midwifery for nurses and midwives / by G.T. Wrench.

  • Guy T. Wrench
Date:
1908
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Credit: Rotunda midwifery for nurses and midwives / by G.T. Wrench. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    if you can, for it does not depend on the patient’s memory, which may be faulty. Falling Downwards and Forwards of the Uterus.—About three weeks before labour in a primipara, and three days Fig. 6. The utems before it The uterus after it has fallen downwards has fallen do^vnwards and forwards. and forwards before labour in a multipara the uterus falls downwards and forwards (see Fig. 6), so that you can lay your palm on the fundus as if on a shelf. The patient may also say that she breathes more easily, but has pain in her legs. This falling is sometimes a guide to the time when labour may be expected.
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