Category: Pregnancy
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Iowa Attorney General withholds payments to SA victims for emergency contraception | Baby News
Iowa’s Attorney General, Brenna Bird, continues to withhold payments to victims of sexual assault to cover emergency contraception. Under her predecessor, Tom Miller, sexual assault victims could get the partial cost of emergency contraception (retails ~ $50), and rarely*, abortion services, covered. *Timely emergency contraception prevents conception thus preventing pregnancy and abortions. Bird has claimed,…
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Pregnant Workers Fairness Act… and why Texas is blocking it | Baby News
Salia Issa’s Story On November 15, 2021, Texas prison guard Salia Issa was seven months pregnant when she started feeling contraction like pains during her shift. She asked to be relieved from her post so she could go to the hospital. Her boss refused, even called her a liar. Hours later, when her shift ended,…
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Ancient Egyptian Hawk Mummy Mystery | Baby History Shorts
In 2016, as part of Maidstone Museum’s Ancient Lives project, their mummified collections, comprised mostly of animals, were CT scanned. Shockingly, EA 493 Mummified Hawk (Ptolemaic Period, 300bce) didn’t contain a hawk, it contained a human. Inside of a small cartonnage, painted with a gilt hawk face and wings, but human feet in sandals, and…
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King Tut’s Daughters
This article will deal with issues of pregnancy loss and stillbirth, with photos of mummified human remains. King Tut, short for Tutankhamun, is arguably one of the most recognized ancient Egyptian pharaohs despite his short life and shorter rule around 3300 years ago yet there is a lot of misconceptions about him in popular culture.…
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The Belly Pad Craze of 1793 | Baby History
Due to the clingy neo-classical fashions of the 1790s-1810s, for the first time in hundreds of years natural feminine figures were on public display. The change in fashions, within a generation, was dramatic especially in France. The empire waist emphasized the size of the belly making it difficult to hide excess body weight– or a…
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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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