Counting time in pregnancy and labour

Childbirth, Midwifery and Concepts of Time

Volumn 17, Issue , 2009, Pages 61-83

  Downe, Soo ^b   Dykes, Fiona ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL LANCASHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

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