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From: "pgleich" <>
Subject: RE: [APG] Confinement as a Cause of Death
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 17:12:44 -0600
In-Reply-To: <E1D9mh7-0003pA-00@dmz2.onewest.net>

I'm probably very late with this reply to the thread but from the

"Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary", Edited by Clayton L. Thomas,
M.D., M.P.H. 14th editon, 1984, it states the following:

[To restrain in a place.] The period of childbirth.

We relied on both this and Orland's Medical Dictionary religiously in
all of the hospitals I worked in over the years.


Peggy Rockwell Gleich


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From: Loretta Evans, AG [mailto:]
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Subject: [APG] Confinement as a Cause of Death


It is my understanding that confinement was the time that a woman
remained at home [or in bed] following the birth of a child. It is
likely that this woman died of complications from child birth. Child
Bed Fever is often listed as a cause of death. This was an infection
following childbirth. The "child bed" referred to the period of
confinement after the child's birth. Even in the 1940's my mother was
expected to remain in bed for 10 days following the birth of a child.
She said that after 10 days in bed, she was so weak, it took a long time
to regain her strength. Women today may complain because a nurse
insists that they get up and walk after childbirth, but they heal more
quickly.



Loretta Evans, AG (R)



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