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Nina Renata Aron
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Jan 16, 2018
Restraints, hallucinations, and forgotten pain were the norm on midcentury maternity wards
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Nina Renata Aron
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Jan 11, 2018
Meet the unheralded women who saved mothers’ lives and delivered babies before modern medicine
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Jan 11, 2018
Watch: “Twilight Sleep” offered the promise of painless birth—but at what cost?
How a Ladies’ Home Journal expose ended one of the most controversial birthing techniques
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Dec 23, 2017
Watch: Orphan babies were leased to college home-ec classes to train aspiring mothers
As recently as the 1960s, universities like Cornell were home to babies for months or years at a time
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Mar 31, 2017
Watch: The granny midwives who birthed untold numbers of babies in the rural South
A tradition of black, lay midwifery dating back to slavery
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Mar 7, 2017
Watch: Ina May Gaskin is the most famous midwife in America
The world’s oldest profession is not what you think
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Stephanie Buck
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Jul 27, 2016
How the on-demand economy is shaping childbirth and more
There’s a doula for that.
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