{"id":68197,"date":"2015-10-27T09:12:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=68197"},"modified":"2015-10-23T13:51:03","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:51:03","slug":"pregnant-womens-bodies-resist-giving-birth-on-halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2015\/10\/27\/pregnant-womens-bodies-resist-giving-birth-on-halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Pregnant women&#8217;s bodies resist giving birth on Halloween"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Future research is needed to identify the process,&#8221; write the authors, but it appears that pregnant women have some control over when they give birth.\u00a0A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/profile\/Becca_Levy\/publication\/51608112_Influence_of_Valentine's_Day_and_Halloween_on_birth_timing\/links\/543193de0cf27e39fa9f93d4.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">study<\/a> of birth incidence on Halloween and Valentine&#8217;s Day, by public health scholar Becca Levy and colleagues, showed that spontaneous births dipped on the former and rose on the latter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/10\/24.png\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-68198\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/10\/24.png\" alt=\"2\" width=\"601\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/10\/24.png 858w, https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2015\/10\/24-500x200.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The authors suggest that this contributes to growing evidence that culture influences birth timing. Women&#8217;s bodies resist giving birth on a day associated with fright and death, but give into birth on a day associated with love. The authors recommend extra staffing on obstetric wards on Valentine&#8217;s Day and sending a few more doctors and nurses into the streets on Halloween.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Future research is needed to identify the process,&#8221; write the authors, but it appears that pregnant women have some control over when they give birth.\u00a0A study of birth incidence on Halloween and Valentine&#8217;s Day, by public health scholar Becca Levy and colleagues, showed that spontaneous births dipped on the former and rose on the latter. 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