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  • Free and confidential advice about AIDS and childbirth / AVERT.
  • Childbirth, midwifery and care of the new born infant. Lithograph by G. Lopéz (?) after Fray B. de Sahagún.
  • The breast in childbirth. Lithograph after W. F. Victor Bonney.
  • M0008070: Medieval amulet to protect mother and child during childbirth
  • Figure of Neith, Egyptian deity. Goddess associated with childbirth and healing.
  • Amulets associated with childbirth and children. Australia, New Zealand, Ashanti, W. Africa
  • A woman recovering from childbirth; a physician; and three people. Coloured engraving, 183-.
  • Mechanism of mento-anterior positions in childbirth. Lithograph after W. F. Victor Bonney.
  • The brow positions and the transverse positions in childbirth. Lithograph after W. F. Victor Bonney.
  • Arteries of the uterus after childbirth. Coloured lithograph by William Fairland, 1837, after J. Walsh.
  • A diagram demonstrating different kinds of forceps, and their use in childbirth. Lithograph by G. Scharf.
  • Surgical instruments for use in difficult childbirth procedures: five figures. Coloured engraving by J. Pass, 1821.
  • Alcmene giving birth to Hercules: Juno, jealous of the child, attempts to delay the childbirth. Line engraving.
  • Mechanism of persistent occipito-posterior positions and breech positions, in childbirth. Lithograph after W. F. Victor Bonney.
  • Multiple pregnancy, abnormalities of the foetal head, and contracted pelvis in childbirth. Lithograph after W. F. Victor Bonney.
  • Princess Charlotte Augusta, holding her deceased child, ascending to heaven after her death in childbirth. Mezzotint, ca. 1818.
  • Abnormalities of foetal position and abnormal descent of the cord in childbirth. Lithograph after W. F. Victor Bonney.
  • A poor woman in childbirth being watched by her husband. Engraving by J.-J. Frilley, 1827, after Ary Scheffer.
  • A poor woman in childbirth being watched by her husband. Engraving by J.-J. Frilley, 1827, after Ary Scheffer.
  • The face positions and the mechanism of rectified mento-posterior positions in childbirth. Lithograph after W. F. Victor Bonney.
  • Four people praying to Sansovino's Virgin and Child for a woman in premature childbirth. Watercolour by an Italian painter, 1871.
  • A woman in bed recovering from childbirth, a midwife washes the baby while another attendant looks after the mother. Woodcut.
  • Babylonian prototype of the Madonna and child, Astarte. Possible votive offering from woman recovered from childbirth. Original in the British Museum.
  • A woman in childbirth aided by six female attendants, some of whom lay their hands on her stomach. Photograph, ca. 1930, of a Burmese painting, ca?.
  • A woman in childbirth aided by four female attendants, one of whom squats between her legs holding an implement. Photograph, ca. 1930, of a Burmese painting, ca?.
  • Painless childbirth : a general survey of all painless methods with special stress on "twilight sleep" and its extension to America / by Marguerite Tracy and Mary Boyd.
  • Painless childbirth : a general survey of all painless methods with special stress on "twilight sleep" and its extension to America / by Marguerite Tracy and Mary Boyd.
  • A woman in childbirth aided by two female attendants, one of whom holds her stomach, the other holds her knees. Photograph, ca. 1930, of a Burmese painting, ca?.
  • A husband holds his new born baby as his wife rests in bed: promoting health facilities for safe childbirth in Kenya. Colour lithograph by Ministry of Health, ca. 2000.
  • A woman in childbirth aided by two female attendants; one attendant stands on the birthing woman's chest whilst holding a rope suspended above her head. Photograph, ca. 1930, of a Burmese painting, ca?.