An attended or an unattended childbirth in a non-clinical setting

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A woman in bed after giving birth. Engraving by J. Wood, 1830.

A midwife tending a pregnant woman at home: promoting the Kibiriti home birth kit in Kenya. Colour lithograph by AMREF, ca. 2000.

A home birth. Oil painting by Karl Hagedorn.

Home/birth : a poemic / Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker.

The american way of birth.

Architecture in the family way : doctors, houses, and women, 1870-1900 / Annemarie Adams.

The home birth book / Charlotte Ward and Fred Ward ; contributors, James D. Brew, M.D. [and 9 others] ; introduction by Ashley Montagu : photographs by Fred Ward ; introduction by Ashley Montagu, Ph.D. ; edited by Roger Glenn Brown ; designed by Thomas R. Smith.

Blessed events : religion and home birth in America / Pamela E. Klassen.

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Home Childbirth

Images from the collections

Images referencing Home Childbirth

Works from the collections

Home/birth : a poemic / Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker.

The american way of birth.

Architecture in the family way : doctors, houses, and women, 1870-1900 / Annemarie Adams.

The home birth book / Charlotte Ward and Fred Ward ; contributors, James D. Brew, M.D. [and 9 others] ; introduction by Ashley Montagu : photographs by Fred Ward ; introduction by Ashley Montagu, Ph.D. ; edited by Roger Glenn Brown ; designed by Thomas R. Smith.

Blessed events : religion and home birth in America / Pamela E. Klassen.

Home Childbirth

Images from the collections

Images referencing Home Childbirth

Works from the collections

Home/birth : a poemic / Arielle Greenberg and Rachel Zucker.

The american way of birth.

Architecture in the family way : doctors, houses, and women, 1870-1900 / Annemarie Adams.

The home birth book / Charlotte Ward and Fred Ward ; contributors, James D. Brew, M.D. [and 9 others] ; introduction by Ashley Montagu : photographs by Fred Ward ; introduction by Ashley Montagu, Ph.D. ; edited by Roger Glenn Brown ; designed by Thomas R. Smith.

Blessed events : religion and home birth in America / Pamela E. Klassen.

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