THE FALLING BIRTH RATE
Sir, —In reply to "Cautious Wife," I venture to think that it is more the economic position that is accountable for our falling birth rate, than the faint-heartedness of modern mothers to bear the trials of child birth. In possibly 95 per cent of case 3 it is not such an ordeal, that a woman would not happily face it again, to have the joy of another little one in the home. Our doctors of to-day, with their pre-natal care, reduce risk to the lowest minimum, and even without the costly new gas anaesthetic mentioned by "Cautious Mother," see the patient does not suffer unnecessarily. When one considers how our pioneer grandmothers came out here, and produced their large families in their paid huts, bereft of any comfort or convenience, and often without the help of doctors, nurses or anaesthetics, it makes one wonder if we modern women have but little of their fortitude and bravery. A Mother.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22027, 6 February 1935, Page 15
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