Stories
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Birth, babies and boxes of memories
With memories of her baby in neonatal intensive care still fresh, Erin Beeston decides to unearth the poignant objects her family kept following births, going back as far as Victorian times.
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Belonging, babies and self-belief
As a first-time mother living abroad, it seemed too exhausting to truly connect with new acquaintances. Instead, Tanya Perdikou began to make a kind of peace with herself.
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Confusion, guilt, and the battle to breastfeed
Most new mums are told that breast is best. But breastfeeding doesn’t always come as easily or naturally as you might imagine.
- Book extract
Renaissance women and their killer cosmetics
In this extract from ‘How to be a Renaissance Woman’, Jill Burke delves into a complex world of beauty products, poison and patriarchy – and reveals the impossible contradictions of femininity faced by 16th-century women.
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Maternity and child welfare : a monthly journal for workers amongst mothers and children.
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How to rear healthy children : with words of counsel to mothers and those who care to have them ; a series of rules drawn up for the association / by Benjamin Ward Richardson.
Richardson, Benjamin Ward, 1828-1896.Date: 1880- Books
A handbook for mothers : practical advice on pregnancy and motherhood / by C. Phyllis Armitage.
Armitage, C. Phyllis (Clara Phyllis), 1893-Date: 1929- Books
Advice to the expectant mother : fifty ante-natal talks for the use of doctors, nurses and expectant mothers / by G.T. Birdwood.
Birdwood, G. T. (Gordon Travers), 1867-Date: 1932- Books
Our baby : for mothers and nurses / Mrs. J. Langton Hewer.
Hewer, Annie M. (Annie Martha)Date: 1932