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Happy Birthday ! Midwives of London in 1554 were instructed ‘a mydwyfe shall not use or exercise any witchecrafte, charmes, sorcerye, invocations or praiers other than suche as be allowable and may stand with the lawes and ordinances of the Catholic Churche’

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2021-06-17

Call the 'heifmoeder’!

Read all about medieval midwives in our blogpost by



https://t.co/uDTjiVYTRd

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2021-05-31

Happy ❤️

Sending big love and thanks to all the out there for doing what you do ⭐️

And for all you have done for mamas, families and babies through the pandemic. Incredible 💥

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2021-05-05

“Hunter, Midwives & Medicalisation” - Our today is from Gender History Masters student on the 18C rise of the professional “man-midwife” and its impact women midwives: https://t.co/u7WjqN4Mrr
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2021-03-04

[2/3]In the past, male practitioners had usually only attended at difficult labours, but in the 18th century, they began to practice as more general midwives, much to the offence of many contemporaries who saw it as unnatural.

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2020-11-12


WTF I was joking about that at the start of the volume BUT ITS PRETTY MUCH LITERAL

(okay it's not *their* daughter, more like they were, uh, the midwives, but still lmao)

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2020-08-30

Had the pleasure of capturing the beautiful dream team of Anna and Sheena Byrom. Mum and Daughter boss ladies, who own the incredible & work tirelessly to help and care for midwives, women and their birth partners. So much love for these 2 (&their wonderful team!)

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2020-08-04

hi im buttercup // 🌼 // they/them // afroindigenous animator, illustrator, & sequential artist // i have a blk magical girl comic abt queer & trans shamanic midwives that u can read at https://t.co/ZfzgZ1B89g

💌 buttercup.art
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2020-06-29

Remembering Jane Sharp, 17thC midwife & author of The Midwives Book, in English rather than Latin.
Female-centred, her book saved lives & was open about sex: "the clitoris being nervous & of pure feeling, when rubbed & stirred causeth lustful feelings"

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2020-06-18

was a developing science in the 18th c. This is the time when men began to practice as more general midwives, much to the offence of many contemporaries who saw it as unnatural. Learn more about one of them here 👉 https://t.co/VZErpfqAOB

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2020-05-27

3. However, to say that Rod was a god, let alone the Sky Father is wrong, because we have no way to prove it. Offerings to Rod & Rozhanitsas (=Norns;midwives) were given when a child was born, because they determined the childs fate (luck) on the third night after the birth.

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2020-05-14

On International Day of the Midwife here is a handy guide - James Wolveridge's C17th midwifery handbook, written to 'inform midwives in their office'

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2020-05-05

Couldn't really fit midwives in here, but thanks to my lovely mum for soldiering on, all NHS staff, Police, Fire brigade etc etc etc you're all brilliant

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2020-04-27

These are the lovely nurses, doctors and midwives that got me back to myself after having my baby. It was my gift to them when my treatment came to an end last summer and I still think of them now. They were so kind and caring, my angels.

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2020-04-24

Died 17Apr1794 the pioneering French midwife, Angélique du Coudray. Born in 1712, the same year as the King of Prussia (Frederick II, known as Frederick the Great) and the Enlightenment ... https://t.co/kYW0PXzXRy

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2020-04-17