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Having a baby should be one of the most
rewarding experiences of your life.
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And Desert Valley does everything possible
to make it so for you.
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There are certain necessary rules, however,
regarding visiting hours and so on.
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May I call your attention to the fact...
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that children under 17
are not permitted in the maternity wing.
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Now Nurse Berens will narrate our film.
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With the next contraction
the actual delivery begins.
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The doctor first assists the top
of the baby's head under the pubic bone.
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Then he helps the face
gently over the perineum.
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Now, rotating the head a full half circle...
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so that the higher shoulder
can be eased through the arch...
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the other shoulder and arm follow.
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When the chest is delivered
the baby takes its first independent breath...
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and so commences to cry...
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while the delivery continues with great care.
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Slowly and steadily.
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At this point, the doctor
takes the baby's feet in his hand...
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elevates them to complete
the necessary drainage of amniotic fluid.
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The baby's lusty response is, of course,
an automatic beneficial response.
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He is placed on the mother's abdomen.
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The cord is clamped thus.
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She feels not the slightest pain
when the cord is cut in this manner.
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The baby is now on his own.
A new life has begun.
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I'm curious about the frequent use here
of the word "womb"...
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which is fundamentally a poetic expression,
as in "fruit of the womb"...
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meaning children, of course.
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And "the womb of time,"
whatever that means, and so on.
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I find it interesting
that doctors prefer this term...
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to the more precise
scientific designation "uterus."