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[Leaflet (8 June 1880) about the conjoined twin girls, Rosalie and Josepha Blazek.  ].

Vishnu reclining on the ocean with Brahma springing from a lotus growing from Vishnu's navel with attendants. Coloured transfer lithograph.

Events in Krishna's life. Gouache drawing.

An exhausted mother gives birth before a crowd of French officials; symbolising the birth of the ideas of the July Revolution and their troubled patrimony in the hands of contemporary politicians. Lithograph by E. Forest after J. Grandville, 1831, after Eugène Devéria, 1827.

Foetuses in utero: six figures showing cross-sections of foetuses in various positions in the uterus prior to and during birth. Line engraving by W. Taylor, 1791, after F. Birnie after Smellie.

The birth of Adonis. Etching by H. van Swanevelt.

Viswāmitra rejecting his daughter Sakuntalā's birth. Chromolithograph by R. Varma.

Tableaux interrogatifs, ou Nouvelle méthode d'enseigner l'art des accouchemens [sic] aux sages-femmes de la campagne. 9e. tableau, Des secondines ou arriere-faix / École départementale de l'Ain.

Birth / edited by Imogen Tyler and Caroline Gatrell ; associate editor: Irene Gedalof.

Awake and aware : participating in childbirth through psychoprophylaxis / Irwin Chabon, M.D ; introduction by Heinz L. Luschinsky, M.D.

Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.).

M0001876: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0007459: Illustration of Japanese parturition chair

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Birth / edited by Imogen Tyler and Caroline Gatrell ; associate editor: Irene Gedalof.

Awake and aware : participating in childbirth through psychoprophylaxis / Irwin Chabon, M.D ; introduction by Heinz L. Luschinsky, M.D.

Childbirth without fear : the principles and practice of natural childbirth / by Grantly Dick-Read, M.A., M.D.(Cantab.).

M0001876: Book illustration depicting one of the stages of childbirth

M0007459: Illustration of Japanese parturition chair