How Did we Get our Current Culture Around Pregnancy & Birth: Ask the Historians of Science

Talking to my mother and other women from previous generations it sounds like they got pregnant and gave birth in a culture that's different from the one we face today. Based on these talks, I have often wondered how we got to the specific point we are at: where pregnancy is a very medical experience, C sections are so common,  we seem to be just starting to talk more openly about miscarriages and the postpartum period, and women are trying to navigate the demands of breastfeeding and work. In today’s show I interview two historians of science to get a sense of how we arrived at this particular moment in which we find ourselves.

For more on my guests, see: https://warstoriesfromthewomb.com/

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