After all their labor-pains, their ministerial mountain had brought forth only a mouse — and a still-born one at that. ❋ Unknown (2003)
And it is just this unnatural and abnormal fear of labor-pains -- this unwomanly dread of the slightest degree of physical suffering -- that has indirectly led up to so much discussion regarding the employment of "twilight sleep" and other forms of obstetric anesthesia. ❋ William S. Sadler (N/A)
In the village to which the horse was sent back, there was a woman who, for several days, was suffering cruelly from labor-pains, without being able to be delivered, so that no human hope remained of saving her life. ❋ Father Candide Chalippe (N/A)
The patient ought to bear in mind then that "true labor-pains" are situated in the back, and loins; they come on at regular intervals, rise gradually up to a certain pitch of intensity, and abate as gradually; it is a dull, heavy, deep sort of pain, producing occasionally a low moan from the patient; not sharp or twinging, which would elicit a very different expression of suffering from her. ❋ B. G. Jefferis (N/A)
Her uneasiness will rapidly increase -- she will be continually getting up and lying down -- her tail will begin to be elevated and the commencement of the labor-pains will soon be evident. ❋ Robert Jennings (N/A)
We are suffering now, going through the acute agonizing labor-pains prior to a new birth, and we will come up, and we will become a glorious living example to the world. ❋ Unknown (1919)
The truth is that he has rationalized his unwillingness to go through the labor-pains of creation by pretending to himself a constant and great need of money, and permitting himself to dissipate his energies in a hectic, disturbed, shallow existence, in a tremor of concert-tours, guest-conductorships, money-making enterprises of all sorts, which leave him about two or three of the summer months for composition, and probably rob him of his best energies. ❋ Paul Rosenfeld (1918)
After all their labor-pains, their ministerial mountain had brought forth only a mouse -- and a still-born one at that. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)
She was afterward confined with the usual labor-pains. ❋ Unknown (1896)
At the ninth month she had labor-pains, but the fetus failed to present; the pains ceased, but recurred in a month, still with a negative result. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Cox 2.78 describes the case of a woman who was pregnant seven months, and who was seized with convulsions; the supposed labor-pains passed off, and after death the fetus was found in the womb, having lain there for five years. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Rains 2.287 cites an instance in which gestation continued three months after rupture of the membranes, the labor-pains lasting thirty-six hours. ❋ Unknown (1896)
In May she had a few labor-pains that passed away, and during the next six months she remained about as large as usual, and was several times thought to be in the early stages of labor. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Addison 3.162 describes the case of a woman who was delivered of a healthy male child, and everything was well until the evening of the fourth day, when intense labor-pains set in, and well-formed twins about the size of a pigeon's egg were born. ❋ Unknown (1896)
It was removed through the vagina, and two days later labor-pains set in, and in two hours she was delivered of a uterine child. ❋ Unknown (1896)
Her abdomen progressively increased in size, and between the tenth and eleventh months she suffered what she thought to be labor-pains. ❋ Unknown (1896)
In a few minutes the labor-pains returned and the feet of a second child presented, and the child was expelled in three pains, followed in ten minutes by the placenta. ❋ Unknown (1896)
He found the woman on a bed complaining of great labor-pains, biting a handkerchief, and pulling on a cloth attached to her bed. ❋ Unknown (1896)
