Category: Pregnancy

• “An Address to Pregnant Females” 1810 | Read Along

  

  Check out An Address to Pregnant Women at the Wellcome Collection

  Aradia Wyndham

  July 19, 2021

  Pregnancy, Read Along, Video

• 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…

  Aradia Wyndham

  June 28, 2021

  Babies, Birth, Jane Austen Series, Pregnancy, Video

  art history, baby, Birth, breastfeeding, dry nursing, England, foster mother, Georgian, wet nursing

• 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…

  Aradia Wyndham

  January 29, 2021

  Babies, Birth, Pregnancy, Rabbit Holes, Video

  abandonment, abortion, adoption, american old west, baby boom, baby bust, baby factories, China, contraception, gestational carrier, infantcide, maternity homes, Mom influencers, overpopulation, Population ageing, social media, surrogacy, Ukraine, underpopulation, witchcraft

• 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

• The Racist Origins of the Obstetrical Dilemma | Squished Pt 1

  

  So you’re an obstetrician in the early 20th century. You want to expand your practice to include all pregnancies and births, not just the high risk ones (but not those of black women, oh no!) So you gather up some sexist and racist drivel and viola! The Obstetrical Dilemma is born… and it’s killing women…

  Aradia Wyndham

  September 24, 2018

  Birth, Blog, Pregnancy

  cesarean, childbirth, fetopelvic disproportion, Jim Crow, maternal mortality, newborn, obstetrical dilemma, racism, Schultz, Scientific American, sexism, Washburn, WHO

• Beng Babies of the Côte d’Ivoire

  

  The majority of ethnographies focus on the culture of adults or verbal children, babies, if considered at all, are described in the context of their relationships to adults and older children. In 2004, Alma Gottlieb published a unique ethnography, The Afterlife is Where We Come From: The Culture of Infancy in West Africa based on Beng people…

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 19, 2015

  Babies, Birth, Pregnancy

  alma gottlieb, babysitters, babywearing, Beng, clinginess, cosleeping, Cote d'Ivoire, difficult baby, elimination communication, enema, ethnography, gbane, infant sleep, khanga, napping, reincarnation, stranger danger, toilet training, torso carry, working mom