"If it is to grow up safe, well, and doing well at school the first year and particularly the first week of a baby's life is critical. After delivery mums need to regain their strength in peaceful retreats where they can learn to breastfeed and bond with
Reference Number: DCDL-0002954
A senior member of the medical profession stands on a stage giving a lecture about the need for care for mothers who have just given birth in order that they learn to breastfeed and bond with their babies. He wonders what they might call the kind of retreat he has in mind for new mothers. A woman from the audience suggests they be called maternity homes. Refers to the increasingly brief stays that women who have given birth have in hospital.
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1 image, categorised under Cartoons (Commentary) and Digital images, related to Physicians, Mother and child, Pregnancy, Maternity homes and Infants - Care.
Part of:
Scott, Thomas, 1947- :[Digital cartoons published from 27 July 2005 onwards in the Dominion Post. Includes a selection of digital cartoons from 2003-], Reference Number DC-Group-0025 (778 digitised items)
Extent: 1 digital cartoon(s)Jpeg image - Resolution 150 dpi; Gray scale (8 bit); Pixel dimensions 2504 x 1790. Single art work
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