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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

Personal protective equipment – or PPE – are vital for all healthcare workers during

This equipment helps as well as other healthcare workers in safely providing care and reducing infection.
ℹ️ 👉index https://t.co/BL42PKgK2T

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2020-04-08

Today is World Health Day, let's celebrate contributions from nurses and midwives.
Their contribution is essential in the response. THANK YOU.

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2020-04-07

One of the spots for the lovely newest issue: Through the Looking Glass. These tarot cards explore some guidelines from the Article of the Month, with a little Wonderland Whimsy!

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2020-04-03

Some cover closeups of the In Action issue of The Practising Midwife, looking at how midwives support mums and each other through delivery, their work, and sometimes trauma.

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2020-03-09

im buttercup, afroindigenous turtle islander, i work as a freelance illustrator & am the author/artist on a blk magical girl/super sentai comic abt a group of gender-nonconforming spirit-world midwives that can be read at https://t.co/r42IdwV9HS

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2020-02-24

👋🏼 im buttercup 🌼 // they/them // freelance sequential artist & illustrator // working on personal project abt a bunch of blk gnc magical midwives // https://t.co/SCOkusHfAX

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2020-02-21

Out now is the Looking Forward edition! This issue also looks at the personalisation of birth, and midwives getting to know their patients on their journey through childbirth.

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2020-02-05

Very happy to share with you the cover I did for new story: The Midwives.
The story is as creepy as the cover, which says a lot!

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2020-01-16

A commission of Isha the bard and her newborn, with her drow friends and midwives, Cyan and Naenia! For Valentina CB.

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2019-07-25

20 June. 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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2019-06-20

Leto gave birth to the children of Zeus on Delos which, unattached to the ocean floor, was neither ocean nor land. Artemis was born first, and then helped her mother give birth to her brother, Apollo, whereupon she became the goddess of childbirth & midwives.

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2019-06-20

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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2019-05-05

👩‍⚕️🥼The achievements of early-modern midwives such as Jane Sharp are all the more impressive considering that women were excluded from formal medical education. Sharp’s handbook is among the most influential 17th c. texts on midwifery.

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2019-03-09

Find out more about the training of midwives in Victorian Manchester in our fascinating Collection Encounter on 26 February. It's a great opportunity to learn about the sort of research being carried out on our Special Collections: https://t.co/UR3pzkqNnG

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2019-02-04


Crones, hags & witches vilified & stereotyped as cruel, evil & wicked in most folklore & fairy tales, were in fact once the spiritual leaders, healers & midwives of their communities. Highly respected & esteemed as imparters of lived knowledge
🎨Brian Froud

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2019-01-10

At the end of day five we went in to hospital. First we were in a nice room, then we were in a pool. Our midwives cared for us so well that we both ended up falling in love with them.

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2018-12-07

Forceps delivery from George Spatt’s Obstetric tables 1833. looks at the flapbook, teaching aid for male https://t.co/beC440t89C

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2018-10-05