Birth Stories
Emily Baughan, who researches the history of childcare at the University of Sheffield, traces changes around childbirth.
How have the first hours and days after childbirth changed in the NHS?
Before the NHS, a 1932 publication describing mothers resting after labour, referred to lying-in as ranging from two weeks to two months, but attitudes have altered. In 1950 the book National Baby was published by Sarah Campion. Emily Baughan has been reading it and looks at the differences between childbirth then, memories of her mother and her own experiences.
Dr Emily Baughan is a New Generation Thinker on the scheme run by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the 蜜芽传媒 to put academic research on radio. She is a senior lecturer in 19th and 20th century British History at the University of Sheffield, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and is working on a book, Love鈥檚 Labour, which is a history of childcare.
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