Childbirth Archives

Childbirth

A Litany for Survival

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Naomi Jackson

It shouldn’t take a village: on giving birth as a black woman in America

A Litany for Survival

by Naomi Jackson,

Giving birth as a black woman in America

Part Neither, Part Both

by Michelle Tea,

The hospital room in which I recovered from my caesarean section was as cold and ugly as any hospital room anywhere, but because it was high on a hill in…

Parts and Labor

by Percival Willughby,

From Observations in Midwifery, by the English physician Percival Willughby, written around 1670 and published in 1863. One of two known copies of the book, which Willughby wrote “to inform…