Tag: maternal mortality

• Arnolfini Double Portrait & Maternal Mortality

  

  This amazing painting by Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) features Giovanni di Nicolao Arnolfini (c1400 – after 1452) (possibly a cousin of Jan van Eyck) and his wife Costanza Trenta Arnolfini (c1413-c1432-3). They were both from Lucca (to the northwest of Florence in Italy). He was a prominent Italian merchant. Her aunt was married to Lorenzo…

  Aradia Wyndham

  June 19, 2024

  Pregnancy, Video

  15thcentury, art history, Bruge, Bruges, history, marriage, maternal mortality, Pregnancy, renaissance

• Lamashtu: Hide yo kids, hide yo wife | Baby History

  

  Although not a (true) physician, she wraps with bandages,    although not a (true) midwife, she wipes the baby clean.She keeps count of the months of the pregnant woman,    cloistering off the doors of women about to give birth. – Old Babylonian (OB3) Lamashtu Incantation, lines 3–6, From Harvard Library Bulletin Lamashtu was a lion-headed hawk footed…

  Aradia Wyndham

  October 12, 2022

  Babies, Birth, Video

  breastfeeding, charms, childbirth, demon, infant mortality, Irving Finkel, maternal mortality, mesopotamia, midwife, newborn, pazuzu, wet nurse

• 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