Hospital for mothers, childbirth, and newborns

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The book of the Rotunda Hospital : an illustrated history of the Dublin Lying-in Hospital from its foundation in 1745 to the present time / by T. Percy C. Kirkpatrick ; edited by Henry Jellet.

I think we ought to consider an epidural.

La maternité de Paris : Port-Royal de Paris, Port-Libre, L'Hospice de la Maternité, L'École des sages-femmes et ses origines (1625-1907) / Préf. de M. le Docteur Porak.

A father holding his swaddled new born baby.

Sibah.

A woman in labour holding her partners hand, lying in bed being examined by a midwife.

Three views of the face of a woman in labour, all with her eyes closed.

A woman in labour lying on her side recieving an epidural.

A caesarean section in progress.

A woman in labour lying on her side being given an epidural.

Report / East End Maternity Hospital.

Naître à l'hôpital au XIXe siècle / Scarlett Beauvalet-Boutouyrie.

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Hospitals, Maternity

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A woman in labour lying on her side recieving an epidural.

A caesarean section in progress.

A woman in labour lying on her side being given an epidural.

Report / East End Maternity Hospital.

Naître à l'hôpital au XIXe siècle / Scarlett Beauvalet-Boutouyrie.

Hospitals, Maternity

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A woman in labour lying on her side recieving an epidural.

A caesarean section in progress.

A woman in labour lying on her side being given an epidural.

Report / East End Maternity Hospital.

Naître à l'hôpital au XIXe siècle / Scarlett Beauvalet-Boutouyrie.

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