Introduction
The manual handling involved in mothering encompasses a range of activities some of which directly involve the child and others which are peripheral to him. Most of the tasks, for example, lifting and carrying the child, or lifting and carrying the nappy bucket, cause stress to the lower back. However, the physical demands of the unpaid labour of child-rearing have attracted little attention from the researchers of ergonomics or physiology and the physical aspects of this workload have not been measured. The possible contribution of this workload in the incidence of back problems in working women has therefore probably been neglected.
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