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Also Known As childbirth • parturition

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Sequential changes in the position of the child during labour.
Haida “slate carving”
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Key People

Virginia Apgar.
Virginia Apgar
American physician
Hugh Chamberlen, the Elder
British midwife
Simpson, Sir James Young, 1st Baronet
Sir James Young Simpson, 1st Baronet
Scottish physician
Walter Channing
American physician
anesthesia
Gertie F. Marx
American physician
Peter Chamberlen, the Elder
French surgeon

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