As you will see on the attached form, I am not able, as a mother, to
give my experience of suffering during pregnancy or after childbirth. I
was able to have good attention both before and after the birth of my
boy, so that any special information other than the ordinary childbirth
pains I cannot give.
I suppose my experience will go to prove that proper attention to
health, such as you wish expectant mothers to have, would do away with
a good deal of the suffering and pain connected with maternity. The
opinion of myself and my husband is that none but skilled doctors and
nurses should attend at childbirth. I have known many cases in our
district where the ordinary midwife has had mothers in pain for hours,
only to send for a doctor in the end.
_One child._