The Unexpected History Of Midwives
While no two births are quite the same, everyone enters the world the same basic way – someone cries, someone else yells, and a third person tries to remember where the towels are.
Amid this flurry of chaos, there exists an age-old profession – midwifery. You’d think helping parents bring their children into this world would be considered a noble pursuit. But being a midwife has never been simple. They were lauded as heroes in one century, persecuted as witches in the next, and are still given the occasional side-eye today.
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