Tag: Pregnancy
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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…
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Portugal’s SNS Grávida Helpline | Baby News
Portugal is a country in southwestern Europe, home to ten and a half million people though population is shrinking due to low immigration and low birth rate, around 1.38 children per woman. Based on what I have read, Portugal is a nice place to start a family because there is a nationalized health service, Serviço…
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No Husbands Allowed? Or Ignorant Men? | Baby History
On my recent video, The Poulos Triplets, I explained that husbands weren’t allowed to stay with their wives during labor or delivery, so despite probably knowing Nora was carrying more than one baby, fainting still not uncalled for when he learned all were safe and well. I don’t get many comments because my channel is…
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Medical Misinformation Takes Two Lives | Baby News
Jessica Cronshaw, a 26 year old teacher in Blackburn, Lancashire (UK) found she was expecting her first baby in June of 2022. She suffered with hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe, even life-threatening form of morning sickness, and was prescribed the anti-nausea medication Xonvea. Then weeks later, a midwife, Allison Whitehead, told her over a telephone consultation…
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Hospital Nurseries & Newborn IDs in 1930s | Baby History Shorts
In the 1930s, hospital births were becoming more common in the US, for example, in Chicago in 1930, 55% of births took place in a hospital. It’s likely more would have chosen a hospital birth if they could afford it, or weren’t prevented due to segregation. For efficiency, hospitals used nurseries to care for newborns…
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Mistaking Cancer Symptoms with Pregnancy | Baby News
Caitlin McAliden, a 24 year old teacher from Northern Ireland discovered she was pregnant last September. Throughout the Autumn, she experienced severe morning sickness and fatigue which she attributed to her pregnancy. By December, she realized she had lost 14 kg (or almost 30 lbs) and she had a golf-ball sized lump on her neck…
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Hilary Duff Acupuncture to Induce Labor | Baby News
In April, Hilary Duff made the rounds in the celeb news for her Instagram post containing a photo of her with acupuncture needles in her face with the caption that she was gently trying to evict her baby. She was (is?) pregnant with her fourth child and impatient to meet the newest member of her…
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Ozempic Babies | Baby News
GPL-1 drugs like Ozempic, Mounjaro, WeGovy, and Zepbound were designed to help manage diabetes but are being used for weight loss– weight loss that has caused formerly infertile women to have surprise pregnancies. The drugs are not the primary cause of increased fertility but instead a secondary effect of the weight loss caused by the…
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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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Neanderthal Breastfeeding | Baby History Shorts
In 2013, a paper looked at the barium deposits in the development of teeth in human children and captive macaques for which feeding history was known. Barium is limited during gestation by the placenta, but immediately after birth, barium deposits shoot up with breastfeeding. Researchers could tell when the human babies were supplemented with, or…
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