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  • Nativity, by Gaddi, showing swadding and bathing, 14thC
  • A foldable and adjustable birthing chair, made of walnut wood. European
  • A foldable and adjustable birthing chair, made of walnut wood. European
  • Birth of the Virgin by Zeitblom
  • A woman giving birth, calling out to the Roman goddess Lucina. Engraving by G. Bonasone, 15--.
  • Venetian lying-in room, by Paris Bordone
  • A foldable and adjustable birthing chair, made of walnut wood. European
  • Birth of the Virgin by Carpaccio, showing bath.
  • Birth of John: the child being bathed, by Pinturicchio
  • Birth of the Virgin, by Von Mekenem
  • A foldable and adjustable birthing chair, made of walnut wood. European
  • A foldable and adjustable birthing chair, made of walnut wood. European
  • Dutch lying-in room, child being fed with pap, by Troost.
  • Birth of the Virgin by Holbein
  • Cradle shown in Madonna with cat by Romano.
  • A home birth. Oil painting by Karl Hagedorn.
  • Birth of the Virgin, by Vivarini, showing swaddling clothes.
  • Dissection of a foetus and the womb of the mother, shortly after birth. Colour mezzotint by J. F. Gautier d'Agoty after himself, 1754.
  • The nativity, 12thC mosaic showing swaddling and bathing
  • A foldable and adjustable birthing chair, made of walnut wood. European
  • Madonna and child shwoing breast feeding by De' Conti.
  • Nativity, child about to be bathed, by Pisano, 13thC
  • A cross-section of a pregnant woman's body just before she gives birth. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1821.
  • Mother feeding new-born baby with spoon? by A. van Ostade
  • A father-to-be is being reassured by the family physician. Reproduction of a drawing after F. Reynolds, 1928.
  • A midwife tending a pregnant woman at home: promoting the Kibiriti home birth kit in Kenya. Colour lithograph by AMREF, ca. 2000.
  • A cross-section of a pregnant woman's body in the final stages of labour. Engraving by J. Chapman, 1821.
  • An exhausted woman being held by friends after just giving birth to twins. Pen drawing after G.F.M. Mazzola, il Parmigianino.
  • Chinese charm to accelerate labour
  • A woman in labour lying on her back holding her legs up with a midwife examining her.