Moms-to-be delay births on June 6, 2006
“2006年6月6日”嚇壞美國(guó)準(zhǔn)媽媽
[ 2006-06-08 08:29 ]
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In this photo provided by 20th Century Fox, Damien
(Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick) keeps a watchful eye on the evil stemming
from his emergence as the Anti-Christ in the upcoming film 'The
Omen.' |
Around the country, some superstitious mothers-to-be took steps Tuesday
to make sure their babies were not born on the most bedeviling of dates, 6-6-6.
In New York,
"people are canceling left and right because of what today represents,"
said Liza Washington, an administrative assistant at Children's Hospital
of the New York-Presbyterian Medical Center. More than a dozen deliveries
were postponed because of 666, which is said to be the "Number of the
Beast" in the Book of Revelation.
Many of the expectant mothers had been scheduled to deliver babies by
Caesarean section or after doctors artificially
induced labor.
Julie Haley, 33, of Reading, Mass., went into labor Monday. As of Tuesday afternoon, she still had
not given birth.
"We were going to try to get it out before midnight or I was going to
keep my legs closed," she said. "I don't want her to have that stigma for
the rest of her life. When she gets older, her friends would say that
anything bad would be because of her birthdate."
Pierce, who works at two Chicago-area hospitals, said he and his
colleagues canceled any deliveries scheduled for Tuesday. But he added,
"I'll do nothing that is ethically not indicated."
Pierce said that in general, about 25 percent of all births involve
C-sections whose timing can be controlled "give or take a day." And about
30 percent of births are natural, but labor is artificially induced,
allowing the timing to be controlled as well.
A woman suddenly realized that her delivery date was June 6, and asked
her doctor to delay the birth, said Dr. James Whiddon of the obstetrics
and gynecology department at Wichita Clinic,
Kansas.
(Agencies) |
美國(guó)一些迷信的準(zhǔn)媽媽們?cè)谥芏@一天紛紛采取行動(dòng)，以確保她們的孩子不會(huì)在2006年6月6日--這個(gè)最為喪氣的日子出生。
紐約長(zhǎng)老會(huì)醫(yī)療中心兒童醫(yī)院的行政助理莉莎·華盛頓說(shuō)，在紐約，“由于這個(gè)日子的特殊含義，人們都將6號(hào)左右的分娩計(jì)劃給取消了。”就因?yàn)椤?66”這個(gè)日子，十多個(gè)產(chǎn)婦推遲分娩。據(jù)說(shuō)，666在《啟示錄》中是“魔鬼（反對(duì)上帝的獸）的數(shù)字”。
很多孕婦計(jì)劃剖腹生產(chǎn)或在醫(yī)生的人工引產(chǎn)下生產(chǎn)。
馬薩諸塞州里丁鎮(zhèn)33歲的茱麗·哈雷周一就進(jìn)入了陣痛期，可直到周二下午，她還沒(méi)有分娩。
茱麗說(shuō)：“我們想在午夜前把她生出來(lái)，否則我干脆夾緊雙腿，不生了。我不想讓孩子的一生帶著這樣一個(gè)‘標(biāo)志’，等她長(zhǎng)大后，她的朋友們會(huì)說(shuō)她所有的不順都是因?yàn)樗某錾掌凇！?
同時(shí)在兩家芝加哥地區(qū)醫(yī)院工作的皮爾斯說(shuō)，他和同事們將原定于周二的分娩都給取消了。但是他補(bǔ)充道：“我不會(huì)做任何有悖于道德的事。”
皮爾斯說(shuō)，總體來(lái)看，約25％的分娩通過(guò)剖腹生產(chǎn)，所以，時(shí)間上可以控制，“遲一天或早一天”沒(méi)有大礙。約30％的分娩是自然生產(chǎn)，但是需要人工引產(chǎn)，這樣，時(shí)間上就同樣可以控制了。
堪薩斯州威奇托醫(yī)療中心婦產(chǎn)科的詹姆斯·維登醫(yī)生說(shuō)，一位婦女突然意識(shí)到自己的預(yù)產(chǎn)期是6月6日，于是，她要求醫(yī)生將她的分娩期推后。
(英語(yǔ)點(diǎn)津姍姍編輯) |
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| Vocabulary: |
bedeviling
: baffling（令人喪氣的）
Caesarean section:
剖腹產(chǎn)（參照熱詞Caesarean
section）
labor: 分娩；分娩前的陣痛（go
into labor可指“分娩”）
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