Born to a changing world : childbirth in nineteenth-century New Zealand / Alison Clarke.
"Emerging from diaries, letters and memoirs, the voices of this remarkable book tell a new story of life arriving amidst a turbulent world. Before the Plunket Society, before antibiotics, before 'safe' Caesarean sections and registered midwives, nineteenth century birthing practice in...
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Wellington, N.Z. :
Bridget Williams Books,
2012.
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book The New Zealand History Collection The Women's Studies Collection |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Open air and the Whare Kōhanga: Māori birth ways
- 2. Lying in: Pākehā birth ways
- 3. 'Destitute and ailing': giving birth in hospital
- 4. 'What beautiful children these are!': clothing the baby
- 5. From wet nursing to condensed milk: changes in infant feeding
- 6. Christening, churching and circumcision: the religious rituals of childbirth
- 7. 'The angel of death was waiting for them': maternal illness and death
- 8. 'She has no baby now to call her mother' : infant death
- Appendix: Court cases.