The Birthing Room - What Are the Sources?

More than you might think, i would say. But orsources are always a bit of an issue with something that is this personal and not usually granted the sof historically significant. So it's woven into the fabric of our lives, but it isn't necessarily considered of sufficient import to be recorded in the ways that traditional history would look to. From about the middle of the sixteenth century, we do have manuals about child bearing that are written for both wives and for mothers. And then in the early eighteenth century, we have a midwifery guide like that, but written by a woman, a midwife, that has actual cases in it. We also have letters and di