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In 1833, William P. DeWees wrote that during labor "the patient should be directed to keep as quiet as possible and that the preposterous custom of obliging her to walk the floor with a view to increase the pains when tardy should be peremptorily forbidden."¹ This admonition can be juxtaposed with the one expressed in 1903 by J. Whitridge Williams: "[a woman] should not be compelled to take to her bed unless she feels so inclined."² To walk or not to walk has always been the question — and it is still unanswered. In this issue of the Journal, Bloom . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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