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The difficult labour had drained Mara in a way she would not have thought possible before.

The early years were marked by difficult labour relations and several near strikes.

Jenny had a difficult labour and decided to take a short break from acting to spend time with her baby.

She also failed to visit Anne, who was suffering a difficult labour.

It was a difficult labour, and although May recovered quickly, her newborn son suffered respiratory problems.

She had a difficult labour as, having no details, the curvature of her spine was not detected.

During the fifteen years to come, Mahfouz attended about two thousand women with difficult labour in their own homes.

Henrietta became pregnant for the first time in 1628, but lost her first child shortly after its birth in 1629, following a very difficult labour.

Soon after Bea goes into a difficult labour but when Jack returns from Scotland, mother and daughter are doing fine.

But some reports have suggested that low zinc levels may lead to problems in pregnancy, from difficult labour to congenital malformations in children.

'It is a difficult labour.

Another charm used for helping a woman who is having a difficult labour says to take two white lily roots and give them to the mother to eat.

In his 1768 treatise on midwifery, he reported a case of transient bilateral arm paralysis in a newborn after difficult labour.

The most difficult labour of all was getting the golden apples of the Hesperides, for Hercules did not know where to find them.

It turns out that Yinjiao had a difficult labour and was unaware that she had given birth to twins.

One of the children that Naguib Mahfouz delivered after a difficult labour, was named after him in 1911.

Women in difficult labour may pray to St John of Bridlington as their patron saint and he is also associated with the local fishing industry.

As Tamar's time drew closer, she remembered the difficult labour of Victoria's birth and grew more and more apprehensive.

Difficult Labour (co-authored with John Hewitt), 1926, London, Edward Arnold.

Meanwhile, after a long and difficult labour, Kitty gives birth to a son, Dmitri, nicknamed "Mitya."

Families where there is both a record of schizophrenia and where the index child was born after a particularly long or difficult labour would be particularly suitable targets.

Father Ralph visits Meggie during her difficult labour; he has come to say goodbye, as he is leaving Australia for Rome.

With recurrent straining, e.g. during difficult labour or long term constipation, then stretch injury can damage the nerves supplying levator ani.

Sheep are particularly sensitive to phyto-oestrogens (presumably because they crop pastures more closely than cows); the substances can cause infertility, difficult labour and lactation in unbred ewes.

A third child was born in 1905, again after a difficult labor.

After another difficult labor, their second child was born in 1903 and died 3 weeks later.

It will also begin what are likely to be difficult labor negotiations this summer.

"The baby born after a difficult labor grows healthy," he said.

The difficult labour had drained Mara in a way she would not have thought possible before.

The early years were marked by difficult labour relations and several near strikes.

Using glue is believed to bring about difficult labor.

Jenny had a difficult labour and decided to take a short break from acting to spend time with her baby.

She also failed to visit Anne, who was suffering a difficult labour.

During difficult labors, husband and wife had to discuss details of their sexual affairs with others.

To Ishmael, it was yet another dirty and difficult labor assignment.

She was many hours in difficult labor, and afterwards was laid up for weeks.

When the Indians proved to be a difficult labor force, peasants from surrounding areas were brought into the region.

Like a war veteran, a woman who has endured a difficult labor has a story to tell for the rest of her life.

For women caught in a difficult labor, a study offered reassuring news about the safest way to deliver the baby.

"Believe me, it's better to come to a decision now than after a lengthy and difficult labor and delivery."

"Because of the ability to monitor, a woman can continue through a difficult labor rather than undergo a Caesarean section."

Later, Angulimala came across a young woman undergoing a difficult labor.

At one time, "the latest" way to assist in difficult labors was forceps.

It was a difficult labour, and although May recovered quickly, her newborn son suffered respiratory problems.

She had a difficult labour as, having no details, the curvature of her spine was not detected.

He was extremely strong, giving him utility both in performing difficult labor and in fighting when necessary.

Eugene's father is drunk downstairs while his mother gives birth to him in a difficult labor.

During the fifteen years to come, Mahfouz attended about two thousand women with difficult labour in their own homes.

In this way the public gets an exaggerated notion of the frequency of difficult labors.