The tlamatlquiticitl—midwife—offered those in her charge a remarkable 16th-century birthing plan ... believed in the divine supervision of childbirth, and that from the moment of conception ...

Tuberculosis was the number one cause of death for women; number two was childbirth ... That's like a family at the end of the 20th century living on about $7,000 a year. The lots in black ...

While it's easy to imagine how uncomfortable or even painful childbirth can be (in some ... And it was at the beginning of the 20th century in San Francisco that this tool, now known as the ...