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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…

  Aradia Wyndham

  August 16, 2021

  Pregnancy, Read Along, Video

  bloodletting, fetal alcohol syndrome, laudanum, miscarriage, opium, prenatal care, prenatal diet, prenatal exercise