Childbirth was assisted by midwives ... like baptisms delayed until the child’s survival seemed more assured. Medieval ...

Pregnancy and childbirth presented the medieval expectant mother with a whole host of challenges and dangers. Just as today, there was a lot of instruction on how a pregnant woman should behave to ...

with some fish and that 80 per cent of the skeletons were locals Life would have been hard in the medieval hamlet, with disease and childbirth a common threat to life They died of infectious ...