Where does the word obstetrician come from? obstetric (adj.) "of or pertaining to a midwife or midwifery," 1742,from Modern Latin obstetricus "pertaining to a midwife," from obstetrix (genitive obstetricis) "midwife," literally "one who stands opposite (the woman giving birth)," from obsta...
I intend to keep the House of Vines, the Bakcheion, and my other sites up (though I won’t be adding to them) and you can continue to reach me at sannion@gmail.com for conversation, counseling, divination, and the other services I offer; however keep in mind that I only check my...
She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate-stone. Romeo and Juliet (1595) act 1, sc. 4, l. 53 (Oxford Standard Authors ed.) O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright.It seems she hangs upon the cheek of nightLike a rich jewel in an Ethiop'...
I identify with this term, but more so Traditional Birth attendant or Traditional Midwife because I do my work completely outside of patriarchal influence. I guide women to live their life in that way and to recognize the benefit of self responsibility. There is no one on earth that knows m...
Being an unmarried woman provides more grist to the mill. I have been inspected by random Indian ‘aunties’– we use the term very loosely in the third world – in a manner not dissimilar to how a farmer, I imagine, would inspect a cow at a farm show. One of these aunties actually...
in essence invalidating the measure. Furthermore, neither study included long-term assessments of behaviour, only pre- and post-sleep training. Finally, the youngest child in these studies was 16 months of age, a far cry from the 4 months that many parents are encouraged to start sleep traini...
Now I’ve heard that term once or twice removed all my life but never knew quite what it meant. Still, I argued with my THIRD cousin Colon that he was wrong. We became so embroiled in the debate that wherever we were, we would ask random people to tell us who was wrong or right....
The rule's same level of specificity has to work whether you're playing a midwife in a mud town or an ancient demon-god of avarice and war.) direct linkmarginalia 7. On 2009-05-13, Roger said: Here's a non-GM-mediated rule of this sort: "Any time during an episode, any player...
We have a real obsession in Western nations, and I’m not sure it’s a healthy one. We are completely, totally, obsessed with sleep. And not in the “I love sleep” kind of way, but in a much more insidious way.
I’m seeing a midwife instead of an OB. Yeah, this isn’t all that out-there, but it is a bit different from the norm I guess. I don’t have a “doctor” I’ve been seeing for prenatal care, or one I’m planning to have deliver my baby. I’m going old-school and seein...