CHAPTER XIII.

PARTURITION.

What are labor pains?--Stages of labor--Bag of waters--Necessary preparations--Directions for making the bed--Management during the first stage--Meddlesome midwifery--Cutting the cord--A new heresy--No child should be washed as soon as it is born--Delivery of the after-birth--Should the bandage be applied?--Castor oil--Rest, the best remedy 174-182