Tag: Africa

• Media Literacy and a Short History of the C-Section

  

  What?! An unnamed group invented modern c-sections CENTURIES before anyone else? Wow! Thank gawd for an unverified Facebook post or no one would know the TRUTH!

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 6, 2019

  Birth, Blog

  19th century, Africa, Birth, British Empire, burden of proof, c-section, Cesarean Section, citations, collaboration, critical thinking, Edinburgh Medical Journal, episiotomy, ether, featured, FGM, historical research, infibulation, James Miranda Stuart Barry, Jane Elliot Sewell, labor, liars, media literacy, misinformation, NIH, primary source, Queen Victoria, R. W. Felkin, secondary source, The National Library of Medicine, Uganda

• The Beng Babies of the Côte d’Ivoire

  

  Learn more about Alma Gottlieb’s book “The Afterlife is Where We Come From” on the culture of infancy involving reincarnation and carrying among the Beng.

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 19, 2015

  Babies, Blog

  Africa, allomother, alloparenting, alma gottlieb, anthropology, attachment, baby carrier, babysitter, babywearing, back carry, bath time, Beng, child care, children, culture, dorsal carry, EC, emotional health, ethnography, Gottlieb, infant carriers, infant potty training, Ivory Coast, khanga, mothers, napping, parenting, poop, proximal care, reincarnation, torso carry, west africa, working mom