Birth
* Defects Congenital malformations are the leading cause of infant death.
* Every birth condensation, every death a dispersal.
* Includes stories of pregnancy, birth, and related ideas.
* Many births are from unmarried single women, often teenagers
  - necessary to guarantee survival of some to adulthood
* Most birth occur during daylight hours.
* Most births are normal, healthy and uncomplicated
  - out of wedlock
  - twins with the occasional set of triplets
  - twins, although triplet and quadruplet births sometimes occur
  - happen during the dry season
  - occur during daylight hours and require no human assistance
* Most births occur during the peak of the rainy season
  - wet season when food resources are in abundance
  - in the daylight hours
  - produce a single offspring, but twins are born one out of every six or seven births
  - tend to take place around dawn or dusk, which is when guinea pigs are most active
* Some birth defects cause damage
  - births are part of lifespans
* When born, a child's bones are supple.
* affects our entire mental, emotional, and spiritual well being.
* also marks the beginning of the formation of a baby's permanent teeth.
* are beginnings.
* are part of human experience
  - people
  - rare, and mothers often abandon or even cannibalize their young
  - the main component of population growth
  - usually single, although, as with humans, twin births do also occur from time to time
* asphyxia substantial cause of brain damage in newborn babies.
* begins the human clock.
* can occur at any time of year but are most common in the late spring
  - throughout the year
* choice for life of the child.
* completes the process that began at conception.
* culturally patterned life cycle event that has personal and political significance.
* defects Many birth defects occur as random events
  - among offspring of firemen
  - in offspring of adult survivors of childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia
* describes our movement from the spirit world to mortality.
* follows death, just as waking follows sleep.
* give the names of the child and the parents together with the birth date.
* happen when they happen.
* happens at the end of a process or time cycle.
* is about families being born together
  - women giving birth in dignity, with as little interference as possible
  - actually a transition from one form of life to another
  - also the ultimate act of reproduction
* is an extension of our sexuality and is meant to be pleasurable
  - important event to the Walbiri because infant mortality rates are so high
  - individual experience and expression of self
  - beauty and giving, love and dignity
  - both the cause and the cure for man s sin
  - caused by desires and actions, and birth becomes the cause of further desires and actions
  - determined by multiplying Population by birth.fraction
  - followed by change and decay and death and rebirth
  - like the death and rebirth of the mother
  - more than a physical or medical event
  - often the occasion of prophecy
  - primitive and human, the final product of the human reproductive system
  - suffering, old age is suffering, sickness and death are sufferings
  - the arising of the psycho-physical phenomena
* is the beginning of a life
  - it all, ground zero, the moment from which the clock starts ticking
  - moment in which one's life appears as both gift and call
* is the most important biological event in the life of any human being
  - point in the history of any human being
  - point at which the fetus becomes an actual human being in the legal sense of that term
  - process by which the fetus is expelled from the uterus
  - ultimate sexual act of a woman
* natural and healthy process, and a significant event in every woman's life
  - separation of mother and child
* natural, healthy process and a significant event in every woman's life.
* normal, physiological process.
* occur during rainy season when food is plentiful
  - in mid-winter, after a pregnancy of ten months
* occur throughout the year in equatorial Africa, peaking in wet seasons elsewhere
  - year, with a peak in the summer
* painful process, for both mother and child.
* physical experience
  - process, even a painful process
* picture of life, as it is the beginning of life on earth.
* probably occur most often in the water.
* process, connected to the life and desires of each individual mother.
* profound event in a woman's life.
* records throughout time demonstrate that births of males and females are about equal.
* refers to something having formerly been nonexistent now coming into existence.
* replace migration as main force in population growth.
* represents the ultimate revelation of that which is hidden.
* sacred event.
* sexual act, and often having sex in labor helps facilitate the process
* starts by the muscles of uterus starting to contract.
* symbol of awakening, emerging, changing, and new beginnings.
* takes place in isolation and the precocial young can stand and walk shortly after birth.
* usually occur at night, any time of the year and every four years or so
  - in months of heavy rainfall, but can occur year-round
+ White-headed capuchin, Reproduction: Monkeys :: Mammals of America
  * Mating takes about 2 minutes. The gestation period is 5 to 6 months. A single young is born. Twins can sometimes be born. Most births happen during the dry season. It is from December to April. The baby is carried on the mother's back for about 6 weeks. After 4 to 5 weeks the baby can get off from its mother's back for a short period of time. At 3 months it can move around by itself. Some babies will be mostly independent earlier.