Guest blogger Sarah Buchanan reviews 'Rediscovering Birth' by Sheila Kitzinger. Giving birth is a shared experience by women all over the world and no matter your experience, age or societal status it is a unifying act. However, the physical and spiritual methods of how the world’s different and diverse cultures give birth is fascinatingly complex ...
Category Archives: History
Call The Midwife
Last night was the first in a series dramatising the writings of Jennifer Worth based on her experience of being a midwife in the 1950s and '60s in the East End of London. As green as she was when she first arrived I doubt even a seasoned midwife from any era would have been ...
History of maternity care: 1950s labour video
Antenatal education video from the 1950s. Hindsight is the perfect prism through which to view what really went on and comment on what was really meant. So, imagine my joy to find an original 1950s film available for viewing online today to give a clear view of what labour and birth was really like. I'm ...
World War 1 Babies
Impact of World War I On Radio 4’s More or Less programme, aired on the 10th September they discussed the impact on the global population of the first world war. Staggering numbers in relation to the death toll included the fact that an estimated 9 million soldiers and 6 million civilians were killed. The majority of ...