Author: Aradia Wyndham

• Rani Lakshmibai

  

  Rani Lakshmibai, also know as Rani of Jhansi, has inspired countless works of art featuring her charging into battle on horseback with a baby on her back. In this video, we learn more about her life and what led to the famous scene.

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 28, 2020

  Video

  19th century, babywearing, biography, British Empire, history, India, Jhansi, military, The East India Company, Warrior Queen, women's history

• Dutch Baby c.1664 | Jan Steen | Quick Art History

  

  This painting by Jan Steen features common baby accessories from the 17th century: teethers, falling caps, and leading strings:

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 25, 2020

  Babies, Video

  17th century, art history, baby clothes, baby proofing, Dutch, falling cap, generational, Jan Steen, leading strings, learning to walk, painting, rattle, Rembrandt, teether, teething, toddler, walking

• Natural Birth in the Tudor Era

  

  What qualified as a natural birth in the 16th century? In this post, we look at what the Birth of Mankind, from 1540, had to say about a natural birth in the Tudor Era including birthing positions, recipes for potions, pessaries, vaginal incense, pain relieving lubricants, herbal baths with toxic heavy metals, as well as…

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 21, 2020

  Birth, Video

  16th century, Birth, birth positions, childbirth, herbal baths, labor diet, labor pain, laxatives, mercury, midwifery, natural birth, potions, prenatal care, prenatal diet, prenatal exercise, saffron, the birth of mankind, Tudor era, vaginal fumigation, vaginal incense, wine

• “A Young Woman nursing a baby” 1868 | Jacob Maris | Quick Art History Video

  

  A young woman nursing a baby, was painted in 1868 by Dutch landscape painter, Jacob Maris. He was living in Paris when he painted this portrait of his wife Catharina Hendrika Horn breastfeeding their first baby, Guillaume [gee-um] who was born in April of 1868 and tragically died the following March. Based on a pencil…

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 11, 2020

  Babies, Video

  19th century, art history, breastfeeding, censorship, infant loss, infant mortality, jacob maris, mother

• The Byrth of Mankynde, 1540 | Book History

  

  Learn more about the first book in English on pregnancy, birth, and newborn care: The Byrth of Mankynde, 1540.

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 7, 2020

  Birth, Pregnancy, Video

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• 17th century Pregnancy Test

  

  Urine is a used for pregnancy tests now… and in 17th century Europe.

  Aradia Wyndham

  January 15, 2020

  Pregnancy

  alchemy, art history, birth figures, doctors, Dutch, early modern, flask, painting, piskijker, Pregnancy, pregnancy test, quackery, scrying, urinalysis, virginity

• Humoral Medicine | Pregnancy, Birth, and Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages

  

  Learn about the humoral theory and it’s ideas about pregnancy, birth, and infant care including breastfeeding.

  Aradia Wyndham

  December 21, 2019

  Babies, Birth, Pregnancy, Video

  ancient history, ancient rome, balance, Birth, bloodletting, breastfeeding, Breastmilk, cold, diet, disease, fetus, Galen, gestation, Hippocrates, humoral, humoral medicine, humoral theory, humoural, inducing labor, infertility, lifestyle, marriage, massage, medical myth, medieval, Mediterranean, menstruation, middle ages, midwifery, miscarriage, orgasm, period, physician, post term, Pregnancy, premature infant, purging, quickening, sex, surgeon, swaddling, The Boke of Chyldren, trotula, wetnurse

• Beatrice Baxter Ruyl

  

  Beatrice Baxter Ruyl was a progressive, well-educated woman who came of age at the turn of the 20th century. She worked as an illustrator and author, focusing on depictions of the Zuni Pueblo, but she is best recognized as the subject of breastfeeding photography by Gertrude Kasebier in the early 1900’s.

  Aradia Wyndham

  December 9, 2019

  Babies

  20th century, Abenaki, artifical feeding, Artist, Beatrice Baxter Ruyl, biography, Boston, bottle feeding, breastfeeding, diarrhea, early photography, First Nations, formula, Fred Holland, Gertrude Kasebier, infant mortality, intensive mothering, Käsebier, Maine, motherhood, New England, socialite, United States, Zuni Pueblo

• Measles in the Tudor Era | King Edward VI

  What was measles like for people before vaccination? Watch or read about measles in the Tudor era.

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 21, 2019

  Babies, Video

  16th century, book history, contagion, England, featured, herbology, history of measles, history of medicine, humoral, illness, immunity, immunization, King Edward VI, measles, medicine, medieval, mmr, pediatrics, smallpox, The Boke of Chyldren, Thomas Phaer, tuberculosis, Tudor, vaccination, vaccine

• Scribonia Attice, Ancient Roman Midwife

  

  Scribonia Attice was a midwife in ancient Rome; a well-respected professional who considered herself the equal of her husband, a surgeon.

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 2, 2019

  Birth, Video

  ancient history, ancient rome, art history, Birth, history, history of medicine, home birth, Italy, latin, midwife, midwifery, professional, sculpture, tomb