Churching and Confinement in the Early Modern Period

Pregnancy tests didn't even have m accurate pregnancy tests until the mid twentieth century. Most women carried on with their everyday lives city until the point of delivery. Churching was a ceremony where the woman who had given birth went to church to be ceremonially washed away of her sins of labour and all lianked back to eve's sin in the garden of eden. But confinement is a term that came into being in this contact in the late eighteenth century, actually. It wasn't something that was uncommon to most people, i would say.