[LMB] there's a word for it OT:

[Paula Lieberman]

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From: "quietann" <quietann at gmail.com>


> On 8/1/06, Patricia A. Swan <zafaran at sff.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> The full on, killing-you-right-now state is called "eclampsia"
>> and can persist up to 72 hours post birth.  Pre-eclampsia is the
>  I am a bit surprised that  women who have experienced pre-eclampsia or
> especially eclampsia don't go right out and get their tubes tied. 
> (Happened

What Azalais said, plus there can be  a LOT of pressure on the woman to 
continue breeding -anyway-.  There are lots of cultures which values babies, 
particularly boy babies, far far above the lives of pregnant 
women--fictional example, the a character in MZB's Darkover series who 
suddenly after giving birth to a -son-, was showered by her husband with 
gifts and treated very nicely--as opposed to his indifference when she had 
previously produced daughters--and so she walked out and joined the Free 
Amazons (or at least, that's what I remember, it's been a long time since I 
read the relevant book(s)).

After all (sarcasm) one can always buy another wife....

> to a friend of mine.  The only cure is to take the baby, and mom can die 
> if
> that isn't done.  Or if it is for that matter.  In my friend's case, her
> baby girl was born by C-section at 27 weeks.  The girl is 11 years old now
> and is very small for her age but otherwise is fine.  Mom had a harrowing
> recovery -- think Cordelia in _Barrayar_, but without the soltoxin -- and 
> is
> also fine, but she took her doctor seriously when she was told, "No 
> more.")