The Only Way

Robert R. Mercer

Mercer Visual Communications

Story Summary, Natural childbirth has gone from something practiced by parents regarded as a bunch of hippie radicals to something that is not only accepted, but encouraged in the traditional labor and delivery wards of major hospitals. This story is part of an 80-slide show explaining unmedicated child birth as an option at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, OK. As a slave woman once informed a distant grandmother of mine, if one is going to have a baby, there is only on way. And for parents who worry over the health risk of drugs to both the mother and the child, natural child birth is The Only Way. Caption, Early labor becomes even more boring for Jaqueline and Dr. Clark Thayer when waiting relatives must be kept posted with the message 'nothing is happening.'

Robert R. Mercer, "The Only Way," in POYi Archive, Item #16331, http://archive.poy.org/index.php/items/show/16331 (accessed May 10, 2025).