Category: Pregnancy
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The Atacama Mummy
In 2003, in La Noria, a deserted mining town in Chile’s Atacama Desert, Oscar Muñoz found mummified remains in a leather bag, humanoid in appearance but only 15 cm (6 in) tall. It was a mystery. Scientists were confused by the skeleton’s apparent advanced age (developmental maturity) despite its tiny stature. Paranormal proponents believed it […]
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Instructions for Self-Management During Pregnancy | Sir Richard Croft | Primary Source Read Along
This primary source read-along is from a chapter in Mrs Thomas Little’s Domestic Institutes of Young Mothers, specifically the third edition published in 1824. The chapter is the advice for self-care during pregnancy from Mrs Little’s friend, the late Sir Richard Croft, 6th Baronet, a royal physician and an accoucheur (man-midwife). Sir Croft attended Princess […]
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Mali’s Nonuplets | Rabbit Holes #Shorts
It’s time for Rabbit Holes Shorts! Nonuplets! Hamila Case, a twenty-six-year-old mother from Mali, gave birth in May to nine babies. She was transferred to the Casablanca Ain Borja Clinic in Morocco at 25 weeks gestation and delivered at 30 weeks with the support of a medical team headed by Dr Youseff Alaoui. Her husband […]
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Hungarian Bronze Age Twins |Rabbit Holes #Shorts
Today, we’re learning about a bronze age twin pregnancy from the Vatya culture in central Hungary, which dates to 2200-1450 BCE (the early and middle Hungarian bronze age). In the Vatya culture, human remains were cremated and then interred in urns alongside simple grave goods. At urnfield cemetery, gravesite 241 stood out to researchers because […]
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What Did Jane Austen Think About Pregnancy? | Pt 2.1
In part one of this series, I covered the reproductive history and childcare strategies of Jane Austen’s parents. In this part, I will show that Jane’s attitudes about marriage were shaped– not by her desire to become a published author– but by her observations of motherhood, particularly the physiological and psychological changes involved in annual […]
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“An Address to Pregnant Females” 1810 | Read Along
Check out An Address to Pregnant Women at the Wellcome Collection
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Jane Austen’s Birth | Pt 1
In my Jane Austen Thinks series, I explore the Austens’ family letters, Jane’s novels, as well as contemporary fashions, scientific developments, and politics in England to get a better understanding of what life was like for growing families in the late 18th and early 19th century; and to get an idea of what Jane Austen […]
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Baby-Eating Witches, Surrogacy, Fertility, Baby Scoop, Old West Midwife, #moms | Rabbit Holes Ep 3
This is Rabbit Holes, a semi-regular reaction-style series about the baby-related stories I’ve found interesting and think you’ll find interesting too. Let’s get started! Table of Contents Baby Eating Witches Archaeologists in Poland have been excavating the town square of Bochnia, where in 1679, three women accused of being baby-eating witches were burnt at the […]
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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.
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