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A kraamkamer (birth-room). Watercolour, 16--.

A new-born baby being baptised by a midwife in the mother's bedroom. Etching by B. Picart.

The birth of the Virgin Mary, her mother Anne washes her hands before being given food and drink by attendants. Photolithograph after a painting by B. Daddi.

(Left) a celebration of the birth of a child, (right) the child's first bath. Etching by B. Picart after himself, 1726.

Geburt und Memoria : zum italienischen Bildtyp der deschi da parto / Claudia Däubler-Hauschke.

Within and without : the social and medical worlds of the medieval midwife, 1000-1500 / by Ginger Lee Guardiola.

Labor among primitive peoples : Showing the development of the obstetric science of to-day, from the natural and instinctive customs of all races, civilized and savage, past and present / By Geo. J. Engelmann.

Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.

Childbirth wisdom : from the world's oldest societies / Judith Goldsmith.

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Birth customs

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Images about Birth customs

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Geburt und Memoria : zum italienischen Bildtyp der deschi da parto / Claudia Däubler-Hauschke.

Within and without : the social and medical worlds of the medieval midwife, 1000-1500 / by Ginger Lee Guardiola.

Labor among primitive peoples : Showing the development of the obstetric science of to-day, from the natural and instinctive customs of all races, civilized and savage, past and present / By Geo. J. Engelmann.

Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.

Childbirth wisdom : from the world's oldest societies / Judith Goldsmith.

Birth customs

Images from the collections

Images about Birth customs

Works from the collections

Geburt und Memoria : zum italienischen Bildtyp der deschi da parto / Claudia Däubler-Hauschke.

Within and without : the social and medical worlds of the medieval midwife, 1000-1500 / by Ginger Lee Guardiola.

Labor among primitive peoples : Showing the development of the obstetric science of to-day, from the natural and instinctive customs of all races, civilized and savage, past and present / By Geo. J. Engelmann.

Vernacular bodies : the politics of reproduction in early modern England / Mary E. Fissell.

Childbirth wisdom : from the world's oldest societies / Judith Goldsmith.

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