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This article was incredibly interesting probably because it brings to light just how different childbirth used to be. Nowadays babies delivered by midwives at home are a rather rare event, though it appears to be an increasing “fad.” The view of childbirth shifted from a rather social event to a medical one. The reason for the pain of child birth was from Eve’s betrayal but slowly the idea changed so that they began to believe the woman did not have to suffer. What stuck out at me most in this article was the fact women were not allowed to put their feet on the ground for weeks after giving birth for fear of getting a cold and the fact that hooks would be used to dismember the baby if the unfortunate thing got stuck in the birth canal. It just goes to show the change in medical practices and beliefs from the time. What I found rather ironic was the idea that the “moral character [of women] disqualified them from medical practice” such as childbirth when for years and years they had been the ones delivering the babies. | This article was incredibly interesting probably because it brings to light just how different childbirth used to be. Nowadays babies delivered by midwives at home are a rather rare event, though it appears to be an increasing “fad.” The view of childbirth shifted from a rather social event to a medical one. The reason for the pain of child birth was from Eve’s betrayal but slowly the idea changed so that they began to believe the woman did not have to suffer. What stuck out at me most in this article was the fact women were not allowed to put their feet on the ground for weeks after giving birth for fear of getting a cold and the fact that hooks would be used to dismember the baby if the unfortunate thing got stuck in the birth canal. It just goes to show the change in medical practices and beliefs from the time. What I found rather ironic was the idea that the “moral character [of women] disqualified them from medical practice” such as childbirth when for years and years they had been the ones delivering the babies. | ||
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| + | I thought that it was particularly interesting how she mentions that women had some degree of power. When they were midwives, which was true. They were governed at every turn in every aspect of their lives by fathers and husbands, but in the field of child birthing, they were in control. They were the only ones knowledgeable, through both experience and readings, up to the mid 1700's when men began to take their places. As was already mentioned above, I am kind of surprised that men would kick midwives out of the birthing process so much, claiming that they were not knowledgeable. And, what is also odd to me is the fact that a man at the time would even consider being kind of a male midwife. -Kristina.S. | ||
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