Childbirth
Scope Note
Ideas about childbirth; attitude of the community; importance of first and subsequent births; preparations for delivery; place of birth; witnesses, assistants, and excluded persons; role of midwives and obstetricians; onset and duration of labor; facilitation of delivery (e.g., pressure, massage); posture in childbirth; receiving the baby; severing and tying the umbilical cord; expulsion of placenta; disposal of exuviae; immediate care of mother and child; cleansing, bandaging, and medication of mother; adjustments to postnatal hemorrhage; treatment of baby (e.g., initiation of respiration, cleansing, swaddling); etc.
- Broader Term
- 840 Reproduction
- Related Terms
- 163 Birth Statistics
- 165 Mortality
- 217 Archives
- 527 Rest Days And Holidays
- 743 Hospitals And Clinics
- 759 Medical Personnel
- 766 Special Burial Practices And Funerals
- 787 Revelation And Divination
- Use Fors
- Afterbirth
- Baby care at birth
- Birth
- Birthing practices
- Disposal of exuviae at childbirth
- Disposal of placenta
- Home births
- Labor (normal childbirth)
- Midwives (role in childbirth)
- Obstetrics (practice of in routine childbirth)
- Parturition
- Placenta (disposal)
- Postures in childbirth
- Umbilical cord (severing and tying)
- Witness at birth
- Identifier
- 844
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