Sentences with phrase «hour labour when»

You couldn't possibly know what it's like to squeeze an 8 - pounder out of your uterus after a 24 - hour labour when pain relief measures barely took the edge off.

Not exact matches

Businesses large and small have been making the case that they can't afford paying more for labour going back to when laws were first proposed to curb the use of seven year - olds in coal mines or put an end to 16 - hour workdays.

When the Kellogg's cereal plant in Battle Creek, Mich., instituted six - hour shifts — back in 1930 — work - related accidents dropped dramatically, as did labour costs, turnover and overhead.

The reason fairness would require that this ratio be equal to one is that, as argued by the Italian economist Luigi Pasinetti in his 1981 book, Structural Change and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Essay on the Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations, a fair interest rate is such that the purchasing power of one hour of labour stays constant through time even when its monetary equivalent is lent or borrowed.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

Fathers are often the main support for women during the first hours of labour when they are typically advised to stay at home.

When meconium was apparent, Lemay is said to have stayed at home with the labouring mother for many more hours.

The first stage of labour (this is when the contractions start to become more frequent and the cervix dilates) typically lasts between six and twelve hours for the first baby.

When my eldest was born after a very straightforward 6.5 hour labour she was very sleepy and not all that interested in feeding.

When we receive your phone call informing us that labour has commenced our practitioner will be with you within an hour and then help you to relax and establish your labour contractions.

For first time mothers, the active first stage of labour (when the cervix dilates from 4 cm to 10 cm) normally lasts an average of eight hours, and is unlikely to last longer than 18 hours.

In the last couple of weeks when you are «due», adjust the clock timer on your hot water tank to heat the water (even on «sink») regularly every 2 - 3 hours so it already ready to start the filling process in early labour, and once you suspect labour has begun you can switch it to «on» and «bath» for the next and ongoing fills.

I had already gone through 25 hours of labour before finally getting an epidural, but the pain during each feed was excruciating and only ended when he stopped feeding.

When I finally went into established labour I'd been in pre labour for 30 hours already.

So the pain was intensified by the emotional aspect, and also by the speed of the labour (6 hours, when my others were all nearly 40).

I suppose when you are in labour for 42 hours with no pain relief something like a spinal won't hurt at all.

When a Labour MP asked Robertson why in the last two years there had been a 40 % drop in sports schools sponsorship, a 60 % cut in hours dedicated to sport and the cut in funding, Robertson told the opposition to «stop whining.»

But he enjoyed a warm reception from Labour activists — many of whom queued for over two hours to hear him — and received a long standing ovation when he exited the stage to soul classic «Working on a Building of Love» by Chairmen of the Board.

His finest hours came with his awe - inspiring demolition job of the Government's fatuous annual report, one the finest Parliamentary performances of recent times — and just maybe the moment when the nation began to see the truth about New Labour.

When Labour left office, A&E was performing well with 98 % of patients seen within 4 hours; but since the election, the number waiting over 4 hours has more than doubled, and ambulance queues have doubled too.

Responding to the speech an hour after Cole's tweet, Dominic Raab said: «Labour have absolutely zero credibility when it comes to safeguarding our economy.

So a few eyebrows were raised this week when Labour leftwinger Laura Pidcock was notably absent from an emergency debate on universal credit — 48 hours after being spotted boarding an easyJet flight to Venice from Edinburgh Airport.

«Labour Ministers are now conidering banning zero - hours contracts in the social care sector, but it begs the question of why they vote to ban them when they had the chance two years ago?

... Just 43 per cent said that their students enjoyed two hours of physical work a week, compared to 90 per cent in the academic year 2007 - 2008, when the sports survey was carried out under Labour's government.»

The two sides exchanged awkward looks in the dying hours of the conference as pro-Trident Labour MPs expressed dismay when Corbyn said he would never authorise the use of nuclear weapons.

When I attended the Labour Party Conference last year, in Manchester, I was struck by the fact I didn't meet a single business person over the 36 hours I was there.

The first real concerns on counting night came in the early hours, when the number of spoiled papers in the Airdrie and Shotts seat was confirmed at 1,536 - just 90 votes away from Labour's majority.

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So, imagine my disappointment when after hours of labour I tried the dress on and thought it looked pants!

Britain's child labour laws also meant that there were tight limits on how many hours the triumvirate of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson and Rupert Grint could work, so when the camera was focused on Rickman, «in would come the very small adult actors aged 33 with a wig on their heads... That ain't the back of Daniel's head.»

It also uses a traffic light system to help users make informed judgements on gritting and premises closure; knowing when to grit footpaths and roads, especially on large campuses, can reduce the annual cost of gritting materials and the labour to apply it (usually comprising overtime for unsociable hours) considerably.

«When fitting the differential [# 450 labour], we'd always say change the clutch and flywheel at the same time, for only an extra half - hour's work.

The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to April 14, 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58 - hour work - week.

If you're earning, say, an average of $ 100 per hour, why invest time into labouring on the more mundane aspects of life when you could hire someone else to do it at an hourly rate of $ 20?