Stories
- Book extract
Of incubators, orchids and artificial wombs
In this extract from Claire Horn’s new book, ‘Eve: The Disobedient Future of Birth’, she traces the development of the artificial womb, soon to become a reality.
- Article
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.
- Article
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.
- Article
The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
Catalogue
- Archives and manuscripts
"The Transmission of Music into the Human uterus and the Response to Music of the Human Fetus and Neonate"
Date: 1992Reference: PP/KZR/D/25Part of: The archive of Sheila Kitzinger (1929-2015)- Archives and manuscripts
`Chapter 7: loss of neonate, stillbirth'
Date: c.1970sReference: PP/BOW/K.7/10Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
`Child's tie: orientation and approach in human neonate'
Date: c.1930s-1980sReference: PP/BOW/H.177Part of: Bowlby, (Edward) John (Mostyn) (1907-1990)- Archives and manuscripts
The neonate and his mother (Acta Paediatrica Latina, Vol. XVII, supplement, 1964)
Date: 1964Reference: PP/DWW/A/J/20Part of: Donald Woods Winnicott- Books
Management of high-risk pregnancy and intensive care of the neonate / S. Gorham Babson [and others].
Date: 1975