Giving birth in the 17th century
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The Early Modern Period of Childbirth and Pregnancy
I always think that people in early modern england had a lot more knowledge about labor and childbirth than probably we do now. A lot of it was talking. Were giving birth all the time in them communities. It was a communal activity. So afterwards, after a delivery, everybody would just sit around and chat about what had gone on. And so knowledge was passed down in that way, in a very organic, natural way I think.
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