Tag: prenatal exercise

• 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

• Natural Birth in the Tudor Era

  

  What qualified as a natural birth in the 16th century? In this post, we look at what the Birth of Mankind, from 1540, had to say about a natural birth in the Tudor Era including birthing positions, recipes for potions, pessaries, vaginal incense, pain relieving lubricants, herbal baths with toxic heavy metals, as well as…

  Aradia Wyndham

  February 21, 2020

  Birth, Video

  16th century, Birth, birth positions, childbirth, herbal baths, labor diet, labor pain, laxatives, mercury, midwifery, natural birth, potions, prenatal care, prenatal diet, prenatal exercise, saffron, the birth of mankind, Tudor era, vaginal fumigation, vaginal incense, wine